Coming back to this after 30 years is a trip, but a disappointing one: the tactical writing is tight and often funny, but the characters and plot are thin and boring and a Trillian is a huge embarrassment (because she has like no lines at all).
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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