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ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING D-SOCIETY & SPACE
Volume 23, Issue 5, Pages 717-733Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1068/d343t
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In this paper we explore the boundary between calculative and noncalculative action by arguing that these are separate but mutually constitutive. By using the notion of qualculation, a neologism coined by Cochoy, we redefine the notion of calculation to include judgment. We then argue that making qualculability is not trivial: that it takes effort to create calculation and judgment. But it also takes effort to consider nonqualculability. Two strategies for achieving nonqualculability are identified, those of rarefaction and proliferation. Rarefaction, illustrated by the cases of Quaker worship and selfless love or agape, works by withdrawing all qualculative resources. Conversely, proliferation, illustrated by the attribution of cause and responsibility after railway accidents, and by a major television fund-raiser, the 'Telethon', works to impede calculation by an overload of qualculative resources.
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