August 01, 2018

Episode 22: Divining the World with Joshua Ramey

1 hour 9 minutes

American philosopher Joshua Ramey, author of The Hermetic Deleuze: Philosophy and the Spiritual Ordeal, and Politics of Divination: Neoliberal Endgame and the Religion of Contingency, joins Phil and JF to discuss a philosophical project whose implications go deep and weird. In his books and articles, Joshua proffers the vision of a world where divination -- whether or not it is recognized as such -- isn't just possible, but necessary for advancing knowledge, creating art, and forming communities. And his research has revealed that the wardens of our neoliberal order know this all too well. As he writes in an essay discussed in this episode, the mandate of a weird age ought to be clear: "Occupy, and practice divination."

**REFERENCES

Joshua Ramey, The Hermetic Deleuze: Philosophy and the Spiritual Ordeal

Joshua Ramey, Politics of DIvination: Neoliberal Endgame and the Religion of Contingency

Joshua Ramey, "Contingency Without Unreason: Speculation After Meillassoux" (abstract)

Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti, University of British Columbia, at academia.edu

Fred Moten and Stefano Harney, The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study

Deleuze, Nietzsche and Philosophy, Difference and Repetition, and The Logic of Sense

Quentin Meillassoux, After Finitude: An Essay on Contingency

Elie Ayache, The Blank Swan: The End of Probability

Weird Studies, "Does Consciousness Exist?" Parts One and Two

Special Guest: Joshua Ramey.

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