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Show 346 It should be obvious that there are exponential opportunities for corporate social change in our posthuman, networked communicative moment. Yet, this author is still unsure whether the full range of possibilities has been realized, since many believe that corporations are intrinsically misleading actors or that the best way to facilitate corporate social change is by destroying them through divestment campaigns. When this author uses the phrase "become-corporation," this should be understood quite literally. Publics, counterpublics, and protestors may realize possibilities for social change by becoming incorporated and using resources and privileges provided in constitutional, communal, and visual assemblages to their strategic advantage. While many organizations - such as Greenpeace, Red Cross, and Doctors Without Borders - declare 501(c)(3) status to secure tax exemptions and unlimited contributions from individuals to fulfill their organizational purpose, a more radical way of going about social change may be to actually become fully incorporated (501[c][1] or 501[c][2]) and tap into larger networks and bigger resources to disrupt destructive networks or create altogether new ones that imagine the world differently. Bigger networks and stronger privileges come along with corporate subjectivity. To be incorporated, after all, means to be protected by the law; and although money is neither the principle objective nor the most powerful asset for social change, corporate profits can be utilized to increase available resources. The point is that if publics and academics are concerned with problems such as global warming, neocolonialism, war in the Middle East, or other global issues, then it is necessary to realize that corporations are the future of social movements. Corporations have special privileges, access to resources, and most importantly, they are capable of using their networks of subjectivity to rhetorically and argumentatively incite change on a |
