“The more static, standardized, and uniform a population or social space is, the more legible it is, and the more amenable it is to the techniques of state officials. I am suggesting that many state activities aim at transforming the population, space, and nature under their jurisdiction into the closed systems that offer no surprises and that can best be observed and controlled.” FreedomPowerAuthorityState Book:Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed Source: Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
“Encouragement of sedentarism is perhaps the oldest "state project," a project related to the second-oldest state project of taxation.” CivilizationTaxationStateNomadNomadism Book:The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia Source: The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia
