Brilliantly crafted, elegantly plotted and full of poignant moments and sparkling insight with just the right amount of delicious surreality, and still, despite all that, overwrought, moralizing, and long.
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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