L'évaluation du fait technique, une métaphysique pour l'hypersauvage contemporain

Abstract

Quantitative assessment fascinates the researchers working in the feld of environment But it obscures the fact that the choice of what is to be measured is subjective and in no case does the scientific evaluation come directly from observation of the object Three aspects of scientific fallacy will be described: evaluation of technological progress using the evolution of the knife and other technical artifacts; the quantitative history of a natural fact, global warming; the chronicle of an indicator which is itself a concept, the ecological footprint Evaluation is, in fact, the preferred mode of knowledge for the «info-com» technocracy, especially in the case of environmental issues Based on the obsessive search for measurement, quantitative evaluation locks us into the techno-scientifc world and participates in the production of the ready-to-think, the knowledge of the contemporary hyper-savage.