Diagrammatic Immanence

Gangle, Rocco

doi:10.3366/edinburgh/9781474404174.001.0001

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“…It would be a much longer and more complex argument to draw out parallels and differences between abduction and divination. But the work of Peirce-inspired philosophers like Zalamea (2012), Nagarestani (2014) and Gangle (2015) all suggest that diagrammatic reasoning, reasoning in and through diagrams, does not merely represent but in some sense can produce new knowledge, rendering the otherwise invisible visible. Scientists and mathematicians who use diagrams in this way could also be said to be practicing-controversially, I admit-a certain form of divination.…”

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Neoliberalism as a political theology of chance: the politics of divination

Ramey

2015

Palgrave Commun

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In this essay I argue that despite its increasingly catastrophic social and natural consequences, neoliberalism retains its ideological appeal partly due to the way collective faith in market forces validates neoliberal ideology as a disavowed form of divination. 1 I begin by briefly canvassing both the history and persistence of divination practices. I then read neoliberal views of random market forces as productive of "knowledge" as a contemporary form of divination practice, defined as any tradition-bound practice of taking chance seriously as a conduit for more-than-human knowledge. I follow Philip Mirowski's argument that under neoliberalism markets are understood primarily as superhuman "meta-information processors" which, partly based on randomness, produce correct "knowledge" about the social good in the form of prices. I argue that the way this chance emergence of "knowledge" is conflated with human freedom, particularly in the writings of Friedrich Hayek, is an uncanny parallel to the divinatory solicitation of chance. Markets themselves are isomorphic with perennial divination tools. Part of the effort to undermine and displace the neoliberal era must involve dismantling the appeal of its particular form of divination, a complex task (not undertaken here) involving exposure of the way neoliberalism offers a simplification of, and authoritarian solution for, complex problems posed by the role of chance in politics, science and metaphysics. This article is published as part of a thematic collection dedicated to radical theologies.

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Neoliberalism as a political theology of chance: the politics of divination

Ramey

2015

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“… 1. Authors would include Deleuze (1994, 2003, 2004); Deleuze and Guattari (1983, 1987); Stengers (2008); Ramey (2012); Semetsky (2011); Gangle (2015); Pisters (2006); Grosz (2017); and Blake (2014). …”

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Inquiry as Divination

MacLure

2020

Qualitative Inquiry

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The article proposes divination as a speculative method for inquiry, drawing primarily on the work of Deleuze. Divinatory practices would be diagrammatic, ambulant, cryptic, affirmative, and experimental. They would look for strange relations between the one and the many, in the shifting totality of the cosmos, and entertain relations that are always to some extent inhuman. The article offers an example from an ethnographic study of classroom interaction. It suggests that divination has the power to import “catastrophe” into the frameworks and methods of research, in the hope of clearing a space for creativity and unforeseen outcomes.

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