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Show 80 publics about the cultural significance of industrial progress to its cultural and social assemblages. Other objects of relation, such as smartphones, tablets, and cars, also have rhetorical effects on public bodies, since each medium depends on the extraction of copper for its rhetorical productivity to occur. In other parts of the world, however, such as Namibia, Mongolia, or Papua New Guinea, Rio Tinto has a whole new set of rhetorical relations with different local populations. So although the same corporate subject is at many places at once, it has very different relations with objects such as local governmental, political, and legal assemblages, and with the new deposits of natural resources that maintain its subjective network. This network spans across the globe and can be traced within myriads of associations between minerals, ecologies, communities, cultures, and politics. Altogether, we can see that corporate subjects are complicated networks of objects, alliances, and assemblages that come to life when activated by various associations. These networks can be traced within cultural, technological and economic assemblages, although the Latourian critic can certainly locate many more relations within many more bundles of relations. The point of this intellectual exercise has been to demonstrate how objects become mobilized within networks that give them force. The subject is a piecemeal of associations that is always in motion and changing with the other objects that become subjectivated with their associations. We can thus see that subjectivity, to Bruno Latour, is not dead, lost in the endless seas of the text as Foucault and Derrida may project. It has always been right here in front of us, in full ontological form, defined by its energy put into action by the forces that create alliances and construct associations. Most important, |
