James C. Scott's "dissimulation"
 

Fremeaux & Jordan 99: "As James C. Scott has shown, sometimes the most efficient way of evading the state's stranglehold is what he called 'dissimulation': pretend to comply by producing a simulacrum of what is expected, but without its substance"

> from Isabelle Fremeaux and Jay Jordan's We Are 'Nature' Defending Itself: Entangling Art, Activism and Autonomous Zones (2021)

> tagged with #resistance

>created July 21, 2025 at 11:08:32 AM


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