neoliberal endgame and the religion of contingency Ramey, Joshua Alan 1975- creator text bibliography enk 2016 monographic eng

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ix, 181 pages ; 23 cm. 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. Within the endgame -- We have always been giants -- Divining neoliberal order -- Random chance providential -- Risking derivative politics -- Decolonizing divination. Joshua Ramey. Includes bibliographical references and index. Neoliberalism Neoliberalismo Risk Riesgo (Economía) Probabilities Probabilidades Uncertainty Incertidumbre HB 95 R172p 2016 320.51/3 Ramey, Joshua Alan, 1975- author. London : Rowman & Littlefield International, 2016 (DLC) 2016027604 9781783485536 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1783485531 (pbk. : alk. paper) 2016021386 DLC 160510 20261012193052.0 19089202 eng