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The Aestheticising Vice by Paul Seabright

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I'm often in debates with people about legibility and systems vs individual virtues. People often bring up Seeing Like A State, Secrets of Our Success, and other books or articles in that vein to buttress the case for metis over top-down high modernist design. I sometimes found the conversations shallow, and Paul Seabright's 1999 (!) review of Seeing Like A State helps explain why.___In the Languedoc there is a vineyard that teaches us an important lesson about textbook learning and its applicat

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