The Quant Observation Economy
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Her formula, arrived at over the chat: ‘quant observation economy aka the bookkeepers x gatekeepers of knowledge = late stage capitalism.’ The sharper claim underneath: ‘all quantitative work serves the purpose of flattening and extraction’ — currency and cost, used in the broadest sense, are the instruments that make artificial scarcity feel like natural law. Famines are regularly constructed. The link she’s drawing is between resource extraction, land stewardship, and the very relationship between economy and earth.
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