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High modernism is used almost entirely as a pejorative these days Has been very interesting to read the memoirs/notes of Jean Monnet and Harry Hopkins from pre/post WWII era as the most pro-high modernism writing I've read
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It became clear that it was subtly transforming into a reactionary/trad anti-progress line of thought, often to anprim extremes. Happened a few years after I did my own review of Seeing Like a State in 2011. Scott’s argument somehow turned into a manifesto against all change.
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