Politics of Divination: Neoliberal Endgame and the Religion of Contingency

Joshua Ramey

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Lingua: inglese

Editore: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2016

1783485531 / 9781783485536

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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 political theology of chance 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.…

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Titolo
Politics of Divination: Neoliberal Endgame and the Religion of Contingency
Autore
Joshua Ramey
Editore
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Anno di pubblicazione
2016
Condizione
Good
Rilegatura
Paperback
Lingua
inglese
ISBN 10
1783485531
ISBN 13
9781783485536
Serie
Libro 4 di 10: Reinventing Critical Theory

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