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Divination

Instructor(s): William Mazzarella
Spring 2025

This seminar is an opportunity to explore divination across historical and social contexts from the ancient world, through the sorts of sites examined by classic anthropological works and the uptake of divinatory strategies by psychoanalysis, and on to present-day engagements with tarot, algorithms, and artificial intelligence. Going far beyond the banal popular notion of ‘fortune telling,’ we will consider divination as a question of the arts of attention and interpretation with profound truth-disclosing and world-making implications.

ANTH 58370 | CCCT 58370