This article proposes to analyze relations in contemporary society between intellectual output and the category "productivity", viewed as a privileged manifestation of scientific knowledge. The category has been imported from economics and applied to intellectual work. The aim is to show how the logic of machine-like productivity or that of specific sectors in knowledge output, without harming researchers' health or even scientific productivity itself, overlook the objectives, rhythms, and forms of producing and disseminating the multiple disciplinary versions of scientific work.
Science; research; productivity; work; distress