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Show 40 through" (Fortun & Bernstein, 1998) various environmental, industrial, and public forces to assemble a semicoherent story about the industrial citizen subject. The critic, in this particular instance, is an actant that leaps into the fray of the network to explore how particular assemblages have made the emergence of the corporate subject possible. This process of critical negotiation is similar to Michel Foucault's notion of "eventalization." In an interview titled "Questions of Method," Foucault (1980/2003) explains that eventalization refers to a critical process of revealing forces that have shaped general intelligibilities that may otherwise go unrecognized. "It means making visible a singularity at places where there is a temptation to invoke a historical constant, an immediate anthropological trait, or an obviousness that imposes itself uniformaly on all" (Foucault, 1980/2003, p. 249). In other words, locating this "breach of self-evidence" (p. 249) is a task charged with identifying the amalgamation of elements that have made certain practices possible. This involves mapping various relations of power that have nominalized particular discursive formations such as madness, homosexuality, and delinquency. This critical praxis of revealing a history of discursive networks may also be called a "genealogy of relations of force, strategic developments, and tactics" (Foucault, 1976/1980, p. 114; see Foucault 1971/2003). This critical rhetorical approach is useful because it enables me to identify how the confluence of environmental and industrial forces have transformed the corporate subject into what it is today. This method for retrieving pivotal discursive ruptures is closely related to what Phillips (2002) calls "spaces for invention," which are antecedent gaps that enable resistive acts to transformative networks of power. Importantly, the emerging dynamics of industrial power create a "space for thought" that marks a reconstitution of local |
