Spanish Empire 'legibility': Filipinos were instructed by the decree of November 21, 1849 to take on permanent Hispanic surnames
- Please refer to: Eugene Wei: Seeing Like an Algorithm: legibility and the TikTok For You Page for additional context
- I discovered this Sep 21, 2020 and updated my checkvist Blog This! Outline but haven’t blogged it until now :-) :
- “Nowhere is this better illustrated than in the Philippines under the Spanish. Filipinos were instructed by the decree of November 21, 1849 to take on permanent Hispanic surnames.” <— from Book Review: Seeing Like A State which Eugene Wei linked to in Seeing Like an Algorithm