Seeing like an NGO: On OPSEC and State LegibilityA. MontagnardJ’accuseAug 25, 2025∙ Paid5122ShareJames C. Scott’s Seeing Like A State, an anarchist classic, introduces a useful dialectic between legible and complex systems to explain why “high modernist” “schemes to improve the human condition” …This post is for paid subscribersSubscribeAlready a paid subscriber? Sign inPreviousNext