ABSTRACT
Today, the modern master is money, and it demands that knowledge be a market value like any other kind of merchandise. The machine of evaluation tries to efface the following fact: evaluation is always carried out by a subject, and so his judgements and his beliefs will invariably be subjective and cannot be eliminated from the assessment scales. The policy of evaluation perfects preventive control procedures in order to improve productivity. Japan’s economic miracle, which inundated the world with universal ready-to-enjoy gadgets, left enough of a mark in hearts and minds for its methods to go on to be widely exported. After the war, evaluation first went back over to the US and Canada, which then served as the world’s arsenal. The discourse of evaluation thereby contributes to imposing management on nation states as though they were companies.
