{"id":631,"date":"2024-08-07T07:37:11","date_gmt":"2024-08-07T07:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/?p=631"},"modified":"2024-10-30T20:33:17","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T20:33:17","slug":"seeing-like-a-state-machine-dan-davies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/07\/seeing-like-a-state-machine-dan-davies\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cSeeing like a state machine\u201d &#8211; Dan Davies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cBut \u2026 it\u2019s a big step from noting that things can go off the rails in this way, to presuming that it\u2019s an intrinsic failing of the bureaucratic state, and that it\u2019s all about techne\/metis and therefore blah blah anarchism. Couldn\u2019t it just be a design failure? Early rockets and steam engines blew up, a lot, but that didn\u2019t mean that they were intrinsically bound to fail as a means of propulsion \u2013 it just meant that when you\u2019re designing something based on the use of heat to expand gases, you need to spend much more time and effort on ensuring that the gas expansion happens in a controlled fashion with ways to vent excess pressure, than on the comparatively easy problem of pushing a piston or directing an exhaust\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/backofmind.substack.com\/p\/seeing-like-a-state-machine\">https:\/\/backofmind.substack.com\/p\/seeing-like-a-state-machine<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBut \u2026 it\u2019s a big step from noting that things can go off the rails in this way, to presuming that it\u2019s an intrinsic failing of the bureaucratic state, and that it\u2019s all about techne\/metis and therefore blah blah anarchism. Couldn\u2019t it just be a design failure? Early rockets and steam engines blew up, a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[5,3,4,65],"class_list":["post-631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_read","tag-extract","tag-linksread","tag-mastodon","tag-rss_source"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":632,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions\/632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}