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Politics of Divination
Neoliberal Endgame and the Religion of ContingencyReinventing Critical Theory
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48,99 € |
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| Verlag: | Rowman & Littlefield International |
| Format: | EPUB |
| Veröffentl.: | 26.09.2016 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9781783485543 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
| Anzahl Seiten: | 192 |
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<span><span>Since the 2008 financial crisis, the neoliberal ideas that arguably caused the damage have been triumphant in presenting themselves as the only possible solution for it. How can we account for the persistence of neoliberal hegemony, in spite of its obviously disastrous effects upon labor, capital, ecology, and society? The argument pursued in this book is that part of the persistence of neoliberalism has to do with the archaic and obscure political theology upon which of much of its discourse trades. This is a </span><span>political theology of chance</span><span> that both underwrites and obscures sacrificial devotion to market outcomes. Joshua Ramey structures this political theology around hidden homologies between modern markets, as non-rational randomizing ‘meta-information processors’, and archaic divination tools, which are used in public acts of tradition-bound attempts to interpret the deliverances of chance. Ramey argues that only by recognizing the persistently sacred character of chance within putatively secularized discourses of risk and randomness can the investments of neoliberal power be exposed at their sacred source, and an alternative political theology be constructed.</span></span>
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<span><span>Offers an interpretation of neoliberal ideology as a political theology of chance that both justifies and dissembles risk-laden market processes as obscure divination tools used both to determine fate and fortune and yet to deny that such determination is taking place by any accountable authority.</span></span>
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<span><span>Preface / 1. Introduction: Within the Endgame / 2. We Have Always Been Giants / 3. Divining Neoliberal Order / 4. Random Chance Providential / 5. Risking Derivatives Politics / 6. Decolonizing Divination / Bibliography / Index</span></span>
<span><span>Joshua Ramey</span><span> is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Grinnell College. He is the author of </span><span>The Hermetic Deleuze</span><span> (2012), the co-translator of François Laruelle’s </span><span>Non-Philosophical Mysticism for Today</span><span> (forthcoming), and the author of numerous articles on figures including Adorno, Zizek, Badiou, Deleuze, Bruno, Warhol, Hitchcock and Cronenburg. His work has appeared in </span><span>Angelaki</span><span>, </span><span>Political Theology</span><span>, </span><span>Discourse</span><span>, </span><span>SubStance</span><span>, and the </span><span>Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory</span><span>. </span></span>
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