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> だが、認知防衛は「正しい情報を得る」ことではない。「判断プロセスの自律性を維持する」ことだ。そして個人の覚醒だけでは足りない。
> ジェームズ・スコット(James C. Scott)がその著作で描いた「弱者の武器」――公然たる反乱ではなく日常的な抵抗の蓄積――や、ハヴェルが語った「真実の中で生きる」という姿勢が示すように、認知的な自律性の回復は、分散型の知的共同体の構築によってのみ持続可能になる。
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Autonomies: **Rodrigo Karmy Bolton: The law of fire**

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From Ficción de la razón (21/01/2026) 1. In a short text dedicated to his daughter Anima entitled Land and Sea, the German jurist Carl Schmitt proposed the term nomos of the land to refer to the “original appropriation of space” … Continue reading →

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James C. Scott passed peacefully in his home in Durham, CT on July 19, 2024. | Department of Political Science

James C. Scott, Sterling Professor Emeritus, Political Science; Acting Director, Agrarian Studies; Professor Emeritus, School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and Anthropology and Institute for Social and Policy Studies passed peacefully in his home in Durham, CT on Friday, July 19, 2024.

Authoritarianism, in Scott’s view, dies this way: not through “revolutionary vanguards or rioting mobs” but through “the silent, dogged resistance, withdrawal, and truculence of millions of ordinary people.” Just as “millions of anthozoan polyps create, willy-nilly, a coral reef,” he writes, “so do thousands upon thousands of acts of insubordination and evasion create an economic or political barrier reef of their own.”
- New Yorker review of James C. Scott's In Praise of Floods #jamescscott
A flood may be, “for humans,” the “most damaging of ‘natural’ disasters worldwide,” but, from “a long-run hydrological perspective, it is just the river breathing deeply, as it must.” A seasonal inundation, known as a “flood pulse,” delivers crucial nutrients to organisms that depend on rivers. “Without the annual occupation of the floodplain, the channel—that line on the map—is comparatively dead biotically,”
- New Yorker review of James C. Scott's In Praise of Floods #jamescscott
“As #Hayek proclaims, and as #Scott deplores, these vast machineries are simply incapable of caring if they crush the powerless or devour the virtuous. Nor is their crushing weight distributed evenly.” #JamesCScott #AI open.substack.com/pub/programm... #Singularity

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I’m reading Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed by #JamesCScott. #books #BookSky #NationalReadABookDay

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