Numbers - The Self, Radical Transparency and Transnational Governmentality

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This document discusses the rise of transparency and the use of numbers and metrics to quantify individuals. It makes three key points: 1. Transparency allows others like doctors, HR managers, and schools to access information about individuals in order to categorize them, shape their identity, and force them to act upon themselves. 2. Metrics like credit scores, friend counts, and academic indexes both position individuals in relation to others and shape norms of what is considered good or successful, leading individuals to self-engineer themselves. 3. Transparency has become transnational as a few centralized rating agencies and index creators now dominate by producing standardized measures of evaluation that govern institutions but lack democratic legitimacy and reinforce constant measurement.

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MARIE LAURE DJELIC
ESSEC BUSINESS SCHOOL

Radical Transparency
Numbers and the Self

Transnational Centers
of Calculation

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MARIE LAURE DJELIC

 Provision of information on MYSELF
• Allowing OTHERS to ACT (doctors, HR managers,

School Deans…)
 Categorization and Identity Construction
• Allowing OTHERS AND MYSELF to KNOW ME,

recognize me and connect with me
 Transparency

and selfgovernance/governmentality
• Forcing MYSELF TO ACT on myself

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Exposing the few to the many

Exposing the many to the few



Multiplicity and de-centralization of data and
information sources
• FROM CONTROL TO SURVEILLANCE



Self-generated and self-managed transparency
• FROM ACCOUNTABILITY TO SELF-MONITORING AND

RATING


Transparency with a strong governmentality
consequence at all levels
• FROM SOCIAL ENGINEERING TO SELF-ENGINEERING

 Multiple

levels of Panopticon(s)

• Where the few observe the many. Bentham – ”A

new mode of obtaining power of mind over mind”
 …AND

performative Synopticon
(Mathiesen 1997)
• Where the few infuse the many with particular

norms and codes of being and doing

 The

Shanghai Ranking:

• Positions a University in relation to others
• BUT as Universities turn this measure into a

TARGET, the Shanghai Ranking comes to also
shape and define the norm of WHAT IS A GOOD
University.
• And leads the University to take action to self-

reengineer itself.

 The

h-index:

• A tool allowing me and my evaluators to judge of

my performance
• BUT also an identity defining mechanism to be

maximized and optimized.
• From a tool to an end in itself? When we

strategize, as academics to produce WITH A
VIEW TO MAXIMIZE our h-index?

 Increasingly

transnational in reach

• Moody’s, Standards and Poor and Fitch Rating

have around 95% of the global rating business



Multiplicity – but of a Tocquevillian type??
“American society appears dynamic and agitated
because men and things change constantly but it also
appears monotonous because all those changes are
the same”
Tocqueville, De la Démocratie en Amérique



Do we have real competition or Metastandardization/Meta-convergence through time?

 Using

science as a legitimating tool

 In

the absence of democratic and political
representativity and legitimacy

 Can

only reinforce the production of
numbers, measures, systematic
categorization

 Govern

the traditional sources of
governing authorities (Central banks,
Universities, Nation-states….)

• Those who in fact RULE AND GOVERN today are the
(transnational) standard makers, the producers of those
systems of measures
• Who are they? What interests do they serve?
• How can they be questioned and challenged?

 ”Not

everything that counts can be counted
and not everything that can be counted
counts” Einstein.

transparency as domination… Back
to transparency as liberation?

 From

 How

do we bend/break the iron cage?

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