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Show 41 subjectivity from agrarian to industrial citizenship. This has resounding impacts on the structures of political thought that are evident today. It thus remains imperative to recognize that corporate subjectivity is a contingent and not necessary element of articulation that is deeply implicated in a vast array of human and nonhuman networks. Addressing natural resource corporations from a networked perspective has the advantage of escaping asymmetrical divides between nature and culture and observing objects as outright ontological forces. As Pfister (2015) infers, a "networked rhetoric" with "bioegalitarian" (p. 2) assumptions helps us move beyond monolithic "representational…consciousness" (Hariman, 2002, p. 270) and toward new possibilities for environmental communication. As such, this rhetorical analysis supplements human speech and rationality as central components of communication (see Abrams, 1997; Evernden, 1992; Pollan, 2002) and offers a rhetorical approach to actor-network theory as a means for muddling through the multimodal dimensions of natural resource extraction. In tracing the networks of corporate subjectivity, this dissertation performs a series of translations that makes objects equivalent to link them within assemblages that give them force. Many other critics, albeit not necessarily rhetorical, have taken similar methodological approaches to investigate complicated arrays of human and nonhuman networks. Michel Callon (1986), for instance, did this in his analyses of the scallops of St. Brieuc Bay. In this study, he analyzed people and scallops in the same terms by demonstrating that the fisherman are also tamed by the scallops since they agree not to trawl by the larvae collectors. In John Law's (2008) summation, "fishermen, scallops, and scientists are all…domesticated in a process of translation that relates, defines, and orders objects, human and otherwise" (p. 145). |
