{"title":"Measure for Measure: Politics of Quantifying Individuals to Govern Them","authors":"L. Thevenot","doi":"10.12759/HSR.44.2019.2.44-76","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"»Maß für Maß: Die Politik, Individuen zu quantifizieren, um sie zu regieren«. This article compares a variety of modes of quantifying individuals to govern them. The analytical grid issues from a former research program on the Politics of Statistics that focused on one of these modes of governing by numbers, the statistical nation state, which is here included in an array of more recently developed governing numbers based on benchmarking, digital tracking, or self-quantifying. Three main operations differentiate modes of governing by numbers: measuring individuals for quantification, taking political measures accordingly to guide their behaviors, and an intermediate operation that is often less visible although situated between the two previous ones and needed to link them: evaluating the situation through a measured judgment that justifies the monitoring based on numbers. This analysis breaks down data into the sequential steps of the transformations chain of information formats needed to pass from an individual person to a governing figure. The plurality of modes of evaluation, and its reduction by quantification, is given high significance, as well as the way each mode of governing affects individuals, their identity and their possibility to critically reflect and question.","PeriodicalId":47073,"journal":{"name":"Historical Social Research-Historische Sozialforschung","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9000,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"19","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Historical Social Research-Historische Sozialforschung","FirstCategoryId":"98","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.12759/HSR.44.2019.2.44-76","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"HISTORY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
»Maß für Maß: Die Politik, Individuen zu quantifizieren, um sie zu regieren«. This article compares a variety of modes of quantifying individuals to govern them. The analytical grid issues from a former research program on the Politics of Statistics that focused on one of these modes of governing by numbers, the statistical nation state, which is here included in an array of more recently developed governing numbers based on benchmarking, digital tracking, or self-quantifying. Three main operations differentiate modes of governing by numbers: measuring individuals for quantification, taking political measures accordingly to guide their behaviors, and an intermediate operation that is often less visible although situated between the two previous ones and needed to link them: evaluating the situation through a measured judgment that justifies the monitoring based on numbers. This analysis breaks down data into the sequential steps of the transformations chain of information formats needed to pass from an individual person to a governing figure. The plurality of modes of evaluation, and its reduction by quantification, is given high significance, as well as the way each mode of governing affects individuals, their identity and their possibility to critically reflect and question.
[masß fzr masß: Die Politik, Individuen zu quantifizieren, um sie zu regieren]。本文比较了各种量化个体的模式来治理个体。分析网格问题来自统计政治学以前的一个研究项目,该项目关注的是这些数字治理模式中的一种,即统计民族国家,这里包括一系列最近开发的基于基准、数字跟踪或自我量化的治理数字。三种主要操作区分了数字治理模式:衡量个人进行量化,采取相应的政治措施来指导他们的行为,以及一种中间操作,这种操作通常不太明显,但位于前两种操作之间,需要将它们联系起来:通过经过衡量的判断来评估情况,证明基于数字的监测是合理的。这种分析将数据分解为信息格式转换链的顺序步骤,这些信息格式需要从个人传递到管理人物。评估模式的多元化及其量化的简化,以及每一种治理模式影响个人的方式、他们的身份以及他们批判性反思和质疑的可能性,都被赋予了高度的意义。