Counting What We Eat: Metrics and Optimization in the Food World

“The calculative exactness of practical life which the money economy has brought about corresponds to the ideal of natural science: to transform the world into an arithmetic problem, to fix every part of the world by mathematical formulas”. George Simmel [1903] 2003: 30In my research on discourses...

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Counting What We Eat: Metrics and Optimization in the Food World
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title Counting What We Eat: Metrics and Optimization in the Food World
title_short Counting What We Eat: Metrics and Optimization in the Food World
title_full Counting What We Eat: Metrics and Optimization in the Food World
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