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Show 350 standpoint positions cartographers to do important investigative research about how metabolic networks are disrupted, destroyed, or born again from corporate involvements. Part of this research interest also stems from conversations in Chapter 5 about the visibility/invisibility of corporate subjects when juxtaposed with the visibility/invisibility of toxic waste. How does the visual corporate subject manage politics of (in)visibility when faced with other environmental disasters, and how do corporate subjects and metabolic systems work to repair these damaged networks? There is a lifetime of future research about the corporate subject, and I hope to grow old studying how corporations function rhetorically and argumentatively. For now, though, I think that this particular project has been useful for getting at least a glimpse of the corporate subject in this new dawn of subjectivity, and I hope that this research can prove useful to other critics for future becomings. Michel Foucault (1966/1994) once said that humans would one day be "erased like a face drawn in sand at the edge of the sea" (p. 387), and it appears that this day has come, with the advent of the corporate subject restructuring the networks of our global communicative regime every minute of every day. Importantly, however, this is not an event to fear or shy away from. There is hope in the corporate subject because it can teach us how to move beyond our own humanisms, which have limited our ability to think, grow, and become for far too long. Indeed, if Foucault is correct to infer that subjectivity is itself an invention, then there should be no doubt that there will come a day when unimagined subjectivities eclipse the currently ascendant corporate subjectivity. |
