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high modernism: a standalone construct

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highmodernism1 CONSTRUCTHigh modernismSCOTT · SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

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a strong faith in scientific and technical progress used by states to redesign society and nature according to simplified, legible plans.

In science and technology studies, high modernism refers to a strong faith in scientific and technical progress used by states to redesign society and nature according to simplified, legible plans. This meaning comes from Scott (1998) in Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed.[1]

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  1. Scott, J. C. (1998). Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed. Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300078152

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