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Politics of Divination

Neoliberal Endgame and the Religion of Contingency [Hardback]

by Joshua Ramey

    • Author

      Joshua Ramey

    • Book Format

      Hardback

    • Publisher

      Rowman & Littlefield International

    • Published

      August 2016

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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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      • Author

        Joshua Ramey

      • Book Format

        Hardback

      • Publisher

        Rowman & Littlefield International

      • Published

        August 2016

      • Weight

        454g

      • Page Count

        256

      • Dimensions

        153 x 229 x 15 mm

      • ISBN

        9781783485529

      • ISBN-10

        1783485523

      • Eden Code

        4375446

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      • Author/Creator: Joshua Ramey

      • ISBN: 9781783485529

      • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield International

      • Release Date: August 2016

      • Weight: 454g

      • Dimensions: 153 x 229 x 15 mm

      • Eden Code: 4375446


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