“If the environment can be simplified down to the point where the rules do explain a great deal, those who formulate the rules and techniques have also greatly expanded their power. They have, correspondingly, diminished the power of those who do not.”

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Seeing Like a State

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Against the Grain

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Two Cheers for Anarchism

2012

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The Art of Not Being Governed

2009

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Domination and the Arts of Resistance

1990

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