Seeing like a state: how certain schemes to improve the human condition have failed

State projects of legibility and simplification. Nature and space ; Cities, people, and language

Transforming visions. Authoritarian high modernism ; The high-modernist city : an experiment and a critique ; The Revolutionary Party : a plan and a diagnosis

The social engineering of rural settlement and production. Soviet collectivization, capitalist dreams ; Compulsory villagization in Tanzania : aesthetics and miniaturization ; Taming nature : an agriculture of legibility and simplicity

The missing link. Thin simplifications and practical knowledge : mētis ; Conclusion.