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Cultures of Quantification 2024/25 Winter
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[Week 1] January 8 + 13 - Bureaucratic integration across eighteenth-century Europe
[Week 2] January 15 + 20 - "The slogan of the day is uniformity": The rise, fall, and rise of the metric system in revolutionary France (and elsewhere)
[Week 3] January 20 + 22 - Malthusian dilemmas, or, what is "population"?
[Week 4] January 27+29 - Political economy as tragedy and as "master-science of civil life"
[Week 5] February 3+5 - Living in a world of numbers
[Week 6] February 10+12 - "Society" as a statistical construct
February 17 - Midterm exam
[Week 7] February 19 - Facts and errors
[Week 8] February 24+26 - Beyond the doctrines of chance and necessary connexion
[Week 9] March 3+5 - Visualizing statistics
[Week 10] March 10+12 - Precision sciences of empire
[Week 11] March 17+19 - Measures of labor
[Week 12] March 24+26 - The importance of taking census