On my second read through this early essay collection by one of my favorite authors I’m struck with how much fun the travel writing is and how deep the cultural critiques are and how both types of essay mix elements of each other in each.
This historical treatise has a lot of notoriety but I found it unnecessarily dense, and ultimately flawed, in that its focus on states and state power ignores a related discussion of capitalist power, such that altho there is a useful perspective to glean here about how a drive for social legibility can transform a society, I wouldn't recommend the book overall.
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