For those of us who wonder about the, all be it slow, Crashing of the stock market and the growing interest in Fantasy Sports Gambling; Geomancy and its history might be a relevant point of entry into the exploration of the all too human desire to incorporate the expression of the random into a view of the future?
Wallace Stevens wrote:
““A violent order is disorder; and a great disorder is an order.
These two things are one.”
But before Stevens, Stéphane Mallarmé, and in particular his 1897 poem Un Coup de Dés Jamais N’Abolira le Hasard [“A throw of the dice never will abolish chance/hasard”] Explored in a completely poetic (and Hegelian) way the common problematic that locates confusion at the center of our media and sensory experience.
And yes, we are still seeing our reality is being cast like dice…
Geomancy {Greek: γεωμαντεία, “earth divination”} starts with generating random numbers…
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