1, 2, 3, 4. . . These are not mere black marks on a white background. It could be a jazz band about to begin playing, the tempo of a military march or the number of students that are missing from class this morning. 4, 3, 2, 1. . . and here we switch to the countdown prior to the launch of a space ship or the explosion of a bomb. So innocent, and yet so meaningful, so diffuse and yet so unquestioned. Indeed, if, ‘in the beginning was the Word’, according to the Prologue of the Gospel of John (v.1), ‘today there is mostly the number’, or more precisely a boundless ‘ocean of numbers’ (Ortoli, 2018, p. 7). The seemingly infinite quantification of virtually every aspect of human and non-human life into some form of statistic, percentage, ratio, metric, fraction or numeric value no longer comes as a surprise to us, now that the world seems to have disappeared into a mere reflection of statistics (Rey, 2016).

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编号与组织研究：书评研讨会

1、2、3、4 。这些不仅仅是白色背景上的黑色标记。可能是一支即将开始演奏的爵士乐队，军事游行的节奏或今天早上失踪的学生人数。4、3、2、1。。在这里，我们在飞船发射或炸弹爆炸之前切换到倒数计时。如此天真，却又如此有意义，如此分散，却如此。实际上，根据约翰福音（v.1）的序言，如果“一开始就是道”，那么“今天主要是数字”，或者更确切地说是一个无边无际的“数字海洋”（Ortoli， 2018年，第7页）。似乎将人类和非人类生活的各个方面几乎无限地量化为某种形式的统计，百分比，比率，度量，分数或数字值，这对我们来说已经不足为奇了，