Someone needs to write "Seeing Like a State" but for science
Ben_Reinhardt · x · 2026-09-01
Ben Reinhardt tweets that someone really should write a "Seeing Like a State" for science — implying that scientific institutions, like states in Scott's book, simplify and standardize in ways that create blind spots. Just a one-line idea, not elaborated.
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