CONTENTES

Part 1 State Projects of Legibility and Simplification

Chapter 1 Nature and Space

Chapter 2 Cities, People, and Language

Part 2 Transforming Visions

Chapter 3 Authoritarian High Modernism

Chapter 4 The High-Modernist City: An Experiment and a Critique

Chapter 5 The Revolutionary Party: A Plan and a Diagnosis

Part 3 The Social Engineering of Rural Settlement and Production

Chapter 6 Social Collectivization, Capitalist Dreams

Chapter 7 Compulsory Villagization in Tanzania: Aesthetics and Miniaturization

Chapter 8 Taming Nature: An Agriculture of Legibility and Simplicity

Part 4 The Missing Link

Chapter 9 Thin Simplifications and Practical Knowledge: Metis

Chapter 10 Conclusion