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Politische Arithmetik
(2016)
Quantitative Methoden markieren somit von Anfang an den methodischen Kern der politischen Arithmetik. Darüber hinaus gehen Erkenntnis und Regulierung eine feste Verbindung ein. Politische Arithmetik zielt nicht nur auf ein 'Wissen' von der Bevölkerung, sondern ebenso auf die 'Steuerung' der zukünftigen Bevölkerungsentwicklung. Damit geht es sowohl um die 'Vorhersage' als auch um die 'Herstellung' der Zukunft. Im bevölkerungswissenschaftlichen Dispositiv verbinden sich epistemische und operative Aspekte.
According to Benjamin and Foucault, calling something into question is not just a precondition of critical practice but its very realisation. The effect of critique depends on how a question is asked. An inaccurately posed question supports what it aspired to criticise. Critical practice thus involves a critique of allegedly critical questions. In their critique of power and violence, Foucault and Benjamin expose the moment in which a critical question becomes uncritical and subsequently seek its critical transformation. In Foucault, this movement is identical with "desubjugation", and in Benjamin, with "revolution". A revolutionary resoluteness in raising critical questions, however, can turn out to be decisionistic and uncritical itself. In this paper I reconstruct the struggle for an accurate critical question in Benjamin and Foucault and address how the dialectical turn into uncritical action might be avoided.