Preface to Forenames of God: Enumerations and Incarnations of Ernesto Laclau toward a Political Theology of Algorithms

Abstract

This article introduces Laclau's political theory of empty and floating signifiers as they relate to and develop from theology: specifically, negative theology, Eckhart, Dionysius Aeropagite, the doctrine of incarnation, trinitarianism (perichoresis), and Jewish mysticism (tzimtzum). It discusses Laclau's understanding of enumeration, equivalence, and algorithms as they relate to and develop from the works of Hegel, Marx, Gödel, and Freud.

Keywords

• Political Theory
• Algorithms
• Identification
• Enumeration
• Signification
• Philosophy of Religion
• Indeterminacy
• Radical Democracy
• Social Strategy
• Rhetoric