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Acknowledgments | |
Introduction | p. 1 |
State Projects of Legibility and Simplification | p. 9 |
Nature and Space | p. 11 |
Cities, People, and Language | p. 53 |
Transforming Visions | p. 85 |
Authoritarian High Modernism | p. 87 |
The High-Modernist City: An Experiment and a Critique | p. 103 |
The Revolutionary Party: A Plan and a Diagnosis | p. 147 |
The Social Engineering of Rural Settlement and Production | p. 181 |
Soviet Collectivization, Capitalist Dreams | p. 193 |
Compulsory Villagization in Tanzania: Aesthetics and Miniaturization | p. 223 |
Taming Nature: An Agriculture of Legibility and Simplicity | p. 262 |
The Missing Link | p. 307 |
Thin Simplifications and Practical Knowledge: Metis | p. 309 |
Conclusion | p. 342 |
Notes | p. 359 |
Sources for Illustrations | p. 433 |
Index | p. 435 |
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