Scott, J. C. (1998). Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed. New Haven: Yale University Press. doi:10.12987/9780300128789 (the Yale e-book).
Not read. The summary is drawn from the abstract or from what the work is standardly cited for. A reading should check it first.
Why this is here
The source of the word the exchange used most. A22: “large institutions frequently simplify complex social realities into standardized, administratively manageable representations”, and “Scott’s work is an important antecedent, but the analysis is not specific to states.” The primary source for TERM-064 and QUESTION-253, as R5 said. NOTE-649 names it as an antecedent of LIT-848.