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EAN : 9782355221705
Shaping : BROCHE
Pages : 128
Size : 140 x 205 mm
ONCE UPON A PERCENTAGE

Collection : ZONES
Release date : 06/05/2021
Yves Pagès has gathered all sorts of statistics, jotted down hundreds of percentages in his notebooks, and from this dizzying inventory, produced an odd book, part literary gamemanship in the style of Raymond Queneau and part philosophical musing in the style of Theodor Adorno, reconstituting through these fragments the portrait... Yves Pagès has gathered all sorts of statistics, jotted down hundreds of percentages in his notebooks, and from this dizzying inventory, produced an odd book, part literary gamemanship in the style of Raymond Queneau and part philosophical musing in the style of Theodor Adorno, reconstituting through these fragments the portrait of a society infested by an accountant’s vision of the world.
This work provides an implicit and caustic analysis of living conditions under the rule of numbers, brightened by a few paradoxical suggestions for slipping through the interstices of the statistical net.
 
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EAN : 9782355221705
Shaping : BROCHE
Pages : 128
Size : 140 x 205 mm
La Découverte