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Julien Mattern taught economics and social sciences in high school, and he is currently teacher/researcher at Pau University (France). Together with Matthieu Amiech, he published Le cauchemar de Don Quichotte. Retraites, productivisme et impuissance populaire (La Lenteur, 2013). He is a member of the MARCUSE group (Mouvement Autonome de Réflexion Critique à l’Usage des Survivants de l’Économie), an author of La liberté dans le coma. Essai sur l’identification électronique et les motifs de s’y opposer (La Lenteur, 2013).
This article deals with the imaginary sources of the quantification of the world, through the typical case of electronic ticketing in urban public transport. The historical study of the process of technical ...