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Show 326 pen. All we can do is track them like wolves in the snow and see where this multiple actor takes us. A holistic corporate subject is simply and utterly beyond the reach of humanism, and thus, this dissertation has offered a map from the ground by documenting piecemeal fragments and parcels of the corporation to see the world from its perspective. Using a cartographic method to track the networks of relations that constitute the corporate subject, this dissertation has provided three case studies of the corporate subject: the constitutional corporate subject, the communal corporate subject, and the visual corporate subject. These case studies and their relative inscriptions provide a map for understanding the emergence of the corporate subject. If this dissertation works, then the reader should have a basic comprehension of how the corporate subject functions as a pragmatic entity that moves, thinks, and operates within the aforementioned assemblages. Even still the reader may also be feeling a bit uneasy, jarred, or uncertain about what exactly the corporate subject is. Is this true? If so, this is likely because the corporation exceeds our human conceptualization of what counts as a subject; and as such, this dissertation has avoided reducing the corporate subject to a smaller, more digestible, category of meaning, which would unnecessarily essentialize corporate subjectivity and deduce all of our corporate encounters to some arborescent, humanistic orientation. Admittedly, embracing the wildness of the corporate subject has been a difficult path, and this author could have followed the lead of truth-seekers and structuralists - such as Sharon Beder (2002), Noam Chomsky (1999; including Herman & Chomsky, 2010), and Robert McChesney (2008, 2015) - and approached the corporation with moral hammers and sovereign perspectives. For example, it is not difficult to judge corporate actions from perspectives that already assume capitalism alienates workers from the |
