Below Transparency: What Betting Can Teach Us About Rationality

This article considers the practice of sports betting as a cultural form corresponding to a willing suspension of the imperative of transparency. Against the moral normativity that accompanies positions of epistemic power, bettors choose not to know , or to confront forms of opacity. These strategies appear as an alternative way of escaping the governmentality of transparency. The article first considers the betting paradigm as the living archive of the transparency paradigm and the model of rationality it relies on. Second, it illuminates the critical dimension of this living archive.