Much of his life-long work is included up in his latest and very interesting publication: "The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia" Reviwed here: http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2009/12/06/the_mystery_of_z... Official page: http://yalepress.yale.edu/book.asp?isbn=9780300152289 Scanned excerpt: http://www.law.yale.edu/documents/pdf/Intellectual_Life/LTW-Scott.pdf In general, one of his arguments is that writing is rejected by non-state governed people, because it is through writing that states extend their domination - public records, cadastral maps, treaties, declarations and so on. Recall the native Americans signing papers, for instance. His argument is sustained by many examples of non-state governed people throughout history attacking public record offices as one of the first moments of revolt. He also argues that in Zomia people are not "non-developed" or primitive or whatever you prefer, because they are nomads and have scattered, diverse, networked agriculture, which is a typical western anthropological line of thought, but that rather they are *not governable* because they have such networked multi-seasonal agriculture. This is premised on the idea that empire/state domination and expansion is based on a cost/benefit analysis: if a territory can yield more grain than it costs to annex it, then it will be annexed/conquered - and if not, as is the case with territories based on nomadic, networked agriculture with many different crops to be harvested at many different times, then you can remain free. A nice subversion of that old school thinking. There are probably some parallels with cyberspace and centralisation of architecture, such as Google and Facecrack. Easy to conquer, just give Sucker-berg a call. On 18/10/11 06:36, Michel Bauwens wrote:

http://p2pfoundation.net/Domination_and_the_Arts_of_Resistance

Kevin, anything on this would be of interest !!

Michel

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On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 12:36 AM, Michel Bauwens <[email protected]> wrote:

http://p2pfoundation.net/Domination_and_the_Arts_of_Resistance

Kevin, anything on this would be of interest !!

I thought the book's theme was very suggestive, but its actual subject matter -- premodern, agrarian relations, slavery and serfdom, etc. -- was of limited relevance to me. It does fit together very nicely with the work of R.A. Wilson and Kenneth Boulding on the distorted information flows and lack of upward feedback within hierarchies. I tied DAR together with that stuff in a section of my Desktop Reg State book, if you want me to turn that into a post. -- Kevin Carson Research Associate, Center for a Stateless Society http://c4ss.org Homebrew Industrial Revolution:  A Low-Overhead Manifesto http://homebrewindustrialrevolution.wordpress.com Desktop Regulatory State:  The Countervailing Power of Super-Empowered Individuals http://desktopregulatorystate.wordpress.com Organization Theory:  A Libertarian Perspective http://mutualist.blogspot.com/2005/12/studies-in-anarchist-theory-of.html