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Authoritarian high modernist models lurking in 2019 environment. They may not look like James Scott’s canonical examples of scientific forestry, urban planning, but fit the pattern: - Black-swan startup farming - Tenure-track - Ad-based platforms - Blockbuster drugs
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In all cases, the illegible natural domain being colonized is the individual mind rather than material realities like land or social realities like culture. In each case, the resultant fragility takes the form of devasted populations (founders, phds, news consumers, addicts)
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