Struggling numbers.

Summary Two books highlight the importance of quantification in contemporary technologies of power and the forms of resistance to it. Yet, is activism for an emancipatory and non-subjugating use of numbers a reality or a desirable horizon? About: "Benchmarking. The State under statistical pressure" and "Statactivism. How to fight with numbers" (Isabelle Bruno, Emmanuel Didier and Julien Prévieux for the second book).