quantophrenia

“Mechanics offered a means for the conceptualisation of labour as common human labour (with the key category of power), and manufacture made it possible by splitting craftwork into simple, repetitive operations. This fragmentation became the basis of the commensurability of effects and of the principle of rational calculation and saving derived from it...quantification is far more than counting, measuring and calculating – it is a Weltanschauung, an anthropology, political philosophy, political economy, morality; it can become even a social malaise (‘quantophrenia’). - Jovanovic, G., 2011. Toward a social history of qualitative research. History of the Human Sciences, 24(2), pp.1–27.