I wonder if there is Much literature (I’m sure there is) in clock time and capitalism 

I wonder if it links with modernity as well as taylorist modes of control 

Some excerpts form Number: It’s origin and Evolution 

“Foucalt found that “in the first gesture of the first mathematician one saw the constitution of an ideality that has been deployed throughout history and has questioned only to be repeated and purified.”

“Boas concluded that “counting does not become necessary until objects are considered in such generalized form that their individualities are entirely lost sight of.” In the growth of civilization we have learned to use increasingly abstract signs to point at increasingly abstract referents. On the other hand, prehistoric languages had a plethora of terms for the touched and felt, while very often having no number words beyond *one*, *two* and *many*.”

“In the birth of controls aimed at control of what is free and unordered, crystallized by early counting, we see a new attitude toward the world.”

“Today, as ever, when a large family sits down to dinner and it is noticed that someone is missing, this is not accomplished by counting. Or when a hut was built in prehistoric times, the number of required posts was not specified or counted, rather they were inherent to the idea of the hut, intrinsically involved in it. (Even in early agriculture, the loss of a herd animal could be detected not by counting but by missing a particular face or characteristic features; it seems clear, however, as Bryan Morgan argues, that “man’s first use for a number system” was certainly as a control of domesticated flock animals, as wild creatures became products to be harvested.) In distancing and separation lies the heart of mathematics: the discursive reduction of patterns, states and relationships which we initially perceived as wholes.  
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Yea this quote gets at what i was guessing the primitivist and anti civ critiques of “mathematics” or “counting” or “arithmetic” are 

If one has read disgust literature one may notice a few types of distinctions iterated 

Both vertical  distinctions in terms of HIERARCHY with purity and disgust conveying ordinal ranks of superiority and inferiority “the respectable classes vs the paupers” or even worse “THE UNWASHED MASSES.”

It also portrays distance/separation/social difference “( Spatialization—like math—rests upon separation; inherent in it are division and an organization of that division. The division of time into parts)”or exclusion  in a linear sense 

I do wonder if the insides and outsides in Shawn Wilbur’s  can be used for disgust as an emotion in terms of regulated in groups and outgroups (social exclusion and marginalisation).  
Disgust is multifaceted and I suspect that OCD doesn’t capture its nuances but it’s still useful to talk about 

The moral psychology of disgust notes that disgust in some studies was correlated with xenophobic attitudes as well as ethnocentrism  (page 34)(this is disgust as an emotion not ocd sufferers)   
It has also been linked with the enforcement of normality and social norms 

Disgust for example has been linked to normative heterosexual and monogamous sexualities (page 35 of a moral psychology of disgust).

I wonder if there are other folks outside of Zerzan who critique arithmetic at length 

It makes sense as primitivism critiques language in the same grounds that it is a product and reinforces alienation and it becomes “abstractified.”

It seems disgust produces both spacial and vertical distinctions or atleast may be a product of it

In the empire of disgust: prejudice, discrimination and policy in India and the US

In page 213 of the book in a section titled “The Rule of Disgust?

It puts it very well 

“As Scott urges us to realise, the MODERN STATES “Measuring” and demarcation exercises involve a certain peculiar way of seeing nature and people alike, and are also likely part of the states efforts to gain leverage or even support vis a vis it’s otherwise unruly citizens. 

States divisions and separations as critiques for producing “political disgust.”

Arithmomania(counting OCD) (future materials)