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Guerra, Stephanie. "Colonizing Bodies: Corporate Power and Biotechnology in Young Adult Science Fiction." Children's Literature in Education 40, no. 4 (April 7, 2009): 275–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10583-009-9086-z.
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Sutherland, Serenity. "Speculative texts and what’s next." Explorations in Media Ecology 23, no. 1 (March 1, 2024): 47–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/eme_00192_7.
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Speculative fiction provides ways of imagining what our future, networked world might look like. Early media studies scholars such as Neal Postman have considered a world consumed by media. Applying this approach, the essay looks at two speculative texts, M. T. Anderson’s Feed (2002) and Annalee Newitz’s The Terraformers (2023), and discusses how the natural world and ourselves become entwined in corporate power and the so-called rewards of network connection.
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Madavi, Dr Manoj Shankarrao. "Colonial Struggle-Revolt of Adivasis against Corporate Policies and It’s Invisibility in Modern Global Fictions of Indian English Literature." International Journal of Language, Literature and Culture 2, no. 3 (2022): 57–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.22161/ijllc.2.3.6.
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The treatment to the adivasi community in Postcolonial Indian English fiction lacks in many grounds. Tribal historical revolts, encroachments of British rule into tribal territories, grabbing lands of the tribals, exploitation of tribal women, cruel landlords, deforestation and degradation of tribal environmental values do not find realistic representation in Indian English fictions. In Gita Mehta's The River Sutra, tribal are shown as the worshipper of Narmada River and performing some ritual on the bank of River Narmada, but tribal religious concerns are not so much the limited and full of superstitions. They consider land, forest and water as godly gift to them. In fact these natural objects are itself Godlike for them but when British power and landlords took the illegal entry in their territories, they protested against them and became the epitome of valor and martyrdom in the history. This research article tries to examine the bias attitude of mainstreams literature writing regarding the adivasi heritage and glorious tradition of revolt and sacrifice.
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Rieder, Gernot, and Thomas Voelker. "Datafictions: or how measurements and predictive analytics rule imagined future worlds." Journal of Science Communication 19, no. 01 (January 27, 2020): A02. http://dx.doi.org/10.22323/2.19010202.
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As the digital revolution continues and our lives become increasingly governed by smart technologies, there is a rising need for reflection and critical debate about where we are, where we are headed, and where we want to be. Against this background, the paper suggests that one way to foster such discussion is by engaging with the world of fiction, with imaginative stories that explore the spaces, places, and politics of alternative realities. Hence, after a concise discussion of the concept of speculative fiction, we introduce the notion of datafictions as an umbrella term for speculative stories that deal with the datafication of society in both imaginative and imaginable ways. We then outline and briefly discuss fifteen datafictions subdivided into five main categories: surveillance; social sorting; prediction; advertising and corporate power; hubris, breakdown, and the end of Big Data. In a concluding section, we argue for the increased use of speculative fiction in education, but also as a tool to examine how specific technologies are culturally imagined and what kind of futures are considered plausible given current implementations and trajectories.
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Kay, John, and Aubrey Silberston. "Corporate Governance." National Institute Economic Review 153 (August 1995): 84–107. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002795019515300107.
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Both those who are critical of the current structure of corporate governance, and those who support it, share a common set of prenaises. The corporation is owned by its shareholders: managers exert power and responsibility on behalf of their shareholders: corporate governance is a question of effective accountability to shareholders. If there are problems, they should be dealt with by making these mechanisms more effective. This article challenges that view.The principal-agent model bears no relationship to the way large companies are actually run. The attempt to bring reality in line with the model is one possible road to reform: another is to adjust the model to reality. Shareholders do not own large companies, in any ordinary sense of the word own. Firms like BT or BP are social institutions, owned by nobody. The distinction between plc and the owner managed limited company should be real, and not just titular. Corporate managers are not the agents of the shareholders, but the trustees of the assets of the corporation, which include its reputation, its distinctive capabilities, and the skills of the employees and suppliers. Their objective should not be to maximise shareholder value but to further the interests of the business.This account is probably a better description of the current state of British company law than the principal-agent model, but we advocate a new company statute to put the matter beyond doubt. Disposing of the fiction that executives are the agents of shareholders allows us to establish an effective system for achieving the key goals of corporate governance: freedom for managers to manage, combined with real accountability for their performance. We advocate a fixed four-year term for company chief executives, involving a wide ranging and searching review of effectiveness which would involve not only directors and shareholders but advisors, associated companies and employees.It is better that property should be private, but that man should make it common in use …. it is the task of the legislator to see that the citizens become like that. Aristotle
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Schrager Lang, Amy, and Daniel Rosza Lang/Levitsky. ""Realists of a Larger Reality": On New Science Fiction." Monthly Review 67, no. 11 (April 5, 2016): 55. http://dx.doi.org/10.14452/mr-067-11-2016-04_5.
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<div class="quote-intro">Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings.<p class="quote-intro-author">—Ursula K. Le Guin</p></div>Le Guin is undoubtedly right about resistance in the "real" world, but in reading, only some books offer a call to resistance and the possibilities of a new reality. Among the books considered here, some come to us as "literary fiction"; others are marked as belonging to another, historically denigrated, form, "science fiction" or "fantasy." This could be a distinction without a difference: two are near-future dystopian novels about corporate capitalism in the United States (both by well-established white authors); two are collections of near-future short stories that set out to critique the human powers that structure our world (written by both established and new voices, primarily writers of color). But the books that embrace rather than evade their status as science fiction or fantasy are the ones able to imagine the resistance and change that Le Guin invokes.<p class="mrlink"><p class="mrpurchaselink"><a href="http://monthlyreview.org/index/volume-67-number-11" title="Vol. 67, No. 11: April 2016" target="_self">Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the <em>Monthly Review</em> website.</a></p>
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Lassner, Phyllis. "“The Dark Path Back”: Investigating Holocaust Memory in Sara Paretsky’s Novel Total Recall." Studies in American Jewish Literature (1981-) 41, no. 2 (September 1, 2022): 144–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/studamerijewilite.41.2.0144.
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Abstract Women writers challenge the popular and critical entrenchment of male-authored literary detective fiction. A close reading of Sara Paretsky’s 2001 novel Total Recall demonstrates that the ongoing quest for social justice by her woman detective, V. I. Warshawski, is addressed through assertive women’s voices that have also transformed critical approaches to women’s crime fiction. In Paretsky’s novels, V.I. finds herself in a double bind reserved for women in both social and literary terms: having to prove her stability and effectiveness as a professional detective and as a reliable first-person narrator. Total Recall ’s investigations of contemporary corporate crime trace their origins to American slavery and the Holocaust: the novel transforms the generic mean streets of crime fiction into a transnational crimescape with a two-way trajectory between contemporary Chicago and Central Europe’s sites of mass murder. But instead of plotting a conclusion that declares triumph over such evil, the novel joins forces with historical accounts to investigate the staying power of legitimized oppression and the memory of its victims. Reading the Holocaust narratives embedded in Total Recall reveals a story of inhumanity so far reaching that it transforms Paretsky’s local Chicago crimescape into a global epic.
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Kelly, Adam. "Trusts, Trust, and Trust: Hernan Diaz’s Liberal Pedagogy." American Literary History 36, no. 2 (May 1, 2024): 489–515. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajae033.
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Abstract This article reads Hernan Diaz’s Trust as a contemporary commentary on, and reimagining of, literature’s entanglements with capitalism, liberalism, finance, and law. Beginning with an outline of the history of legal and corporate trusts and connecting that history to the rise of the modern novel, the article spotlights the complex role played by the notion of trust in Diaz’s metafictional text. Trust tells the story of a Wall Street financier, his philanthropist wife, and the ghostwriter of his memoir through a four-part structure, moving from a realist novel called Bonds through two memoirs and ending with a diary titled Futures. This structure serves the aim, reaffirmed in Diaz’s interviews, of teaching his novel’s reader about the ideological implications of literary forms and about the kinds of power—financial and patriarchal—involved in turning reality into fiction. The article explores Trust’s revision of these forms and the ways in which its aesthetics forge an alignment among modernism, feminism, and financial expertise. Reflecting on the novel’s metacommentary on its own values and operations, the article concludes by asking whether Trust’s liberal pedagogy offers a persuasive alternative to the narrative forms it sets out to critique.With its carefully wrought aesthetic architecture . . . Trust confidently insists on its own autonomy from complicity, reaffirming the liberal idea that art symbolizes, and exists in, a realm outside the market.
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Guest, Kristen. "JEKYLL AND HYDE, INC.: LIMITED LIABILITY, COMPANIFICATION, AND GOTHIC SUBJECTIVITY." Victorian Literature and Culture 44, no. 2 (May 10, 2016): 315–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1060150315000649.
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The emergence of limited liabilityover the course of the nineteenth century was marked by intense and sustained feelings of anxiety. Victorians debated it in Parliament and in the periodical press, anatomized its evils in fiction and drama, and theorized its merits and pitfalls in the nascent discipline of economics. Formalized at mid-century through a series of acts that collectively instituted what Paul Johnson describes as “companification” – “the substitution of an impersonal corporate legal entity for the sole proprietorship or partnership” – limited liability was the means by which a corporation was constituted as a legal individual in order to restrict the responsibility of a company's owners for its debts (106). Early response to the practice was tentative: though hailed by some as a means of promoting economic growth, limited liability also inspired fear among the public, for whom it seemed a threat both to moral character and to responsible social behaviour. Wary that it would promote dishonesty in business and legitimize irresponsible speculation among investors, the mid-Victorians did not initially rush to invest. Despite the fact that by the final decades of the century many early fears had been realized and anxieties about investment continued unabated, however, there was a marked shift towards a culture of investment (Taylor 212–13). Summarizing the effects of the “‘Limited-Company’ Craze” in theNineteenth Centuryin 1898, one commentator observed that “Personal ownership has ceased to be the controlling power in trade; and when it left it took along with it that personal care, personal supervision, and personal responsibility which made our business great.” The result, he suggested, is that “we now have, in thousands of instances, mere ‘corporations without bodies to be kicked or souls to be damned’” (Van Oss 734).
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Parks, Lisa, and France Winddance Twine. "Millennial Messiahs, Female Fixers, and Corporate Boards." Film Quarterly 76, no. 3 (2023): 25–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/fq.2023.76.3.25.
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This article explores how television dramas function as a cultural forum on the workplace power dynamics of US tech startups. Focusing on the limited series, Super Pumped and WeCrashed, which are about Uber and WeWork, the authors analyze how relations of race, class, and gender/sexuality emerge in these narrativized techworlds via several “figures,” including white male founders/CEOs or “millennial messiahs,” “female fixers” that range from executives to silent service providers, and the “corporate board.” These figures are important because they circulate across fictional and non-fictional contexts and become a means by which publics make sense of the power relations of tech startups. Even as these shows center on the trials and tribulations of egomaniacal, power-hungry CEOs, they raise crucial questions about corporate corruption, gender/racial discrimination, and labor exploitation in the tech workplace and challenge viewers to reckon with the unchecked power of the big US technology companies.
Books on the topic "Corporate power – fiction"
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The power broker: A novel. New York: Ballantine Books, 2007.
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Frey, Stephen. The Power Broker. New York: Random House Publishing Group, 2006.
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Bennett, Robert Jackson. The company man. New York, NY: Orbit, 2011.
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Bennett, Robert Jackson. The company man. London: Orbit, 2011.
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Productions, Battle Goddess, 4. Horsemen Publications, and Nova Embers. Power Play: Climbing the Corporate Ladder. 4 Horsemen Publications, 2021.
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Productions, Battle Goddess, 4. Horsemen Publications, and Nova Embers. Power Play: Climbing the Corporate Ladder. 4 Horsemen Publications, 2021.
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A people's power: A novel. Calgary: Eagle Vision Pub., 2011.
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Frey, Stephen. The Power Broker. Thorndike Press, 2006.
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Giroux, Henry A. Stealing Innocence: Youth, Corporate Power and the Politics of Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, 2000.
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Stealing innocence: Youth, corporate power, and the politics of culture. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000.
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Ahmed, Omar. "Neo-fascist Corporate Bodies." In RoboCop, 45–76. Liverpool University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781911325253.003.0004.
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This chapter examines what the treatment of OCP, the fictional mega-corporation in RoboCop (1987), closely linked to fascism, that wields such power and control over the public and private reveals about the way science fiction has represented this ideological development over the years. It explores the physical effects of the corporation on the individual body, its commodification, dehumanisation, and namely Murphy's transformation into a fascistic product. At the same time, just how far does the film go with its critique of the corporation? As it is often suggested, the ending of RoboCop manifests an ideological lapse that contradicts the rest of the film's corrosive enquiry of corporate power. RoboCop also arrived at a critical juncture in American cinema, at the height of Reaganomics, and is a work that belongs to a cycle of anti-corporate films that used the science-fiction repertoire as a vehicle for contemporaneous anxieties.
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McCarthy, Conor. "Contesting the Virtual: William Gibson." In Outlaws and Spies, 182–200. Edinburgh University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474455930.003.0008.
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This chapter turns to discuss the contest for the virtual in the twenty-first century as represented in the fiction of William Gibson. In Gibson's earlier speculative fictions of the near-to-distant future, power largely means corporate power, following the posited decline of the nation-state; more recent work, set in the approximate present, place the intelligence agencies in play alongside international corporate interests. In opposition to such power, we find various marginal communities and oppositional groups who occupy outlaw spaces, both real and virtual, with Gibson's protagonists usually occupying an ambivalent position between the powerful and their opponents. The discussion examines Gibson’s contrasting of the Borgesian Aleph (a virtual universe of infinite potential), and Bentham's Panopticon (a virtual prison of total surveillance). It uses the dialectic between these two to ask questions of the contest for the virtual that currently occupies us as we balance the emergence of a potential information utopia against the simultaneous rise of the surveillance state.
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Al-Adeem, Khalid. "Perspective Chapter: Governing Corporations in Appearance but Not in Fact – A Possible Unintended Consequence of the Corporate Governance Movement." In Corporate Governance - Evolving Practices and Emerging Challenges [Working Title]. IntechOpen, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.1005075.
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Corporate failures trigger corporate regulations. The corporation is a fiction that is theorized as a nexus of contracts. Mechanisms for monitoring corporations, namely the external audit function and corporate governance, have been promoted and propagated. Whether corporations are governable is a question. An argument made in the accounting literature is that the audit function has been successful because of the ability of external auditors to appear independent when they might not be. The board of directors of such corporations may appear governing executive managers while they are in fact not or cannot. With the ideology of “profit over people,” multinational companies run the world with CEOs who are the most powerful individuals in the corporate model. Without corporate financers’ active involvement, corporations are unleashed. Corporate financers need to be aware of their power and be able to hold executive management accountable to make their corporations good citizens of the globe. Corporate monitoring mechanisms do not make up for their absence in the corporate model, which makes the view that corporations are founded to maximize the value of absentees naïve. A long history of corporate failures has proven its fallacy.
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Taylor, Sarah McFarland. "Fifty Shades of Green." In Ecopiety, 41–67. NYU Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479810765.003.0003.
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Chapter 2 attends to the role played by “moral offsets” and what socialpsychologists term “moral self-licensing” in intertwined stories of ecopiety and consumopiety in the nottotally unrelated realms of both popular erotic fiction and corporate public relations messaging.Reading across platforms, this chapter teases out various portrayals of environmental “sin” and “virtue,”juxtaposing the corporate public relations practice of “greenwashing” with the “eco-pious” storying of CEO and philanthropist protagonist Christian Grey in the popular mass-market romance Fifty Shades of Grey. As critics/activists use social media to organize and voice objections both to the corporate practice of public relations “greenwashing” and to the romanticized representations of abusive power in Fifty Shades, these protesters wield digital technologies as tools of narrative interruption and contestation. Their citizen interventions and “transformative works” of media offer insight into the participatory dynamics of what the chapter argues is an emergent environmental economy of virtue as mediated through popular culture.
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Edwards, Erica R. "“What Kind of Skeeza?”." In The Other Side of Terror, 134–82. NYU Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479808427.003.0004.
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This chapter discusses Condoleezza Rice’s memoirs and the television show Scandal to analyze the reformulation of Black womanhood for US empire through two primary figures of emergency preparedness and crisis management. It argues that the forms of protection and threat embodied by Black women in post-9/11 US culture make emergency visible as a raced and gendered logic of the security apparatus, one that positions Black women like Rice at the center of a new imaginary of US power. It argues that the seduction of US empire, shuttled through the irresistible fiction of US safety won though military and corporate dominance, both coheres and dissolves around representations of Black women’s sexuality.
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Nette, Andrew. "Towards Rollerball." In Rollerball, 21–36. Liverpool University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781911325666.003.0002.
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This chapter discusses the origins of Rollerball (1975) in the context of science-fiction cinema in the late 1960s and the first half of the 1970s, when the genre began a move to the centre of the commercial film business. It also took a distinctly dark turn as the impact of the Vietnam War, economic recession, the OPEC oil crisis, debates about overpopulation, environmental destruction, and, in the US, urban decay, and the political corruption revealed by the Watergate scandal worked their way into public consciousness. These concerns were all reflected in 1970s science fiction, and particularly percolated up in the decade's dystopian offerings. They also gave rise to the paranoia cycle of Hollywood thrillers that appeared in the late 1960s and early 1970s, in the context of which aspects of Rollerball can be viewed. The chapter then outlines some of the broader cultural debates William Harrison and Norman Jewison found themselves part of during the same period, principally concerns over increasing violence in professional American sport and society more generally, technological change, and growing corporate power.
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Nette, Andrew. "‘This Was Never Meant to be a Game’: Rollerball’s Reception then and Now." In Rollerball, 71–96. Liverpool University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781911325666.003.0004.
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This chapter focuses on Rollerball's reception, the immediate critical reaction and box office performance and more recent critical commentary. It studies how the publicity efforts of the film's distributor, United Artists (UA), helped to pump prime controversy over the film's violence. In the United States, at least, this overshadowed Norman Jewison's desire to make a picture critiquing corporate power and rising violence in sport, contributed to its poor critical reception as an exploitation film, and even fuelled short-lived speculation that Rollerball might become a real sport. The chapter then looks at the film's cultural influence, concluding with some brief remarks on Rollerball's place in the broader body of murder game films. This is a broad cinematic output that spans reality TV parodies, Italian exploitation cinema and B-movies, mainstream science fiction, and YA dystopian films.
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Nette, Andrew. "Introduction: ‘History Really is Gone’." In Rollerball, 7–20. Liverpool University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781911325666.003.0001.
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This introductory chapter provides an overview of Rollerball, the 1975 dystopian science fiction film of Canadian-born director and producer Norman Jewison. Rollerball was based on a short story in Esquire magazine, ‘Roller Ball Murder’, by William Harrison. While the increasingly extreme nature of reality television remains a central framework within which to critically analyse Rollerball, the election of Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States in November of 2016 opens up new ways of watching the film and heightens other ways in which it remains relevant. The most obvious of these is Rollerball's depiction of unchecked corporate power. Another aspect of Rollerball's narrative highlighted by the Trump presidency is the rise of so-called ‘fake news’. This book examines how the film simultaneously exhibits the cinematic aesthetics of mainstream, exploitation, and art-house cinema, in the process transcending its commercial prerogative of action entertainment to be a sophisticated and disturbing portrayal of a dystopian future.
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Donat, Mara. "La fiesta del chivo de Mario Vargas Llosa." In America: il racconto di un continente | América: el relato de un continente. Venice: Edizioni Ca' Foscari, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-319-9/032.
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In the novel La fiesta del chivo the Peruan writer Mario Vargas Llosa shapes the dictator as a symbolic figure of any dictatorship through the corporal elements which caracterise his personality together with his physical body. Dictator’s power vacillates because of body’s vulnerability at his age of seventy. Health problems related to sexuality debilitate tirannicy as an institutional symbol of power. This paper studies the way the corporality is related with textuality in the construction of a historic novel as a fiction.
Conference papers on the topic "Corporate power – fiction"
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Yıldız, Murat. "Ethical Value Issues in Corporate Sustainability Reports." In 3rd International Congress on Engineering and Life Science. Prensip Publishing, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.61326/icelis.2023.55.
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This study aims to reveal the current ethical issues raised by corporate sustainability reports. Many texts such as the Paris Agreement, the European Green Deal, carbon regulations at the border, which have started to play a very important role in the economic and social pattern of the world, have been affecting daily lives of individuals across the countries. Beyond migrations, droughts and natural disasters, the armless war of the new millennium is a struggle for the civilization forced by these agreements. In addition to the European Union, which is gradually increasing its pressure on both member countries and suppliers within the framework of climate scenarios with the directives it has issued on impact value and due diligence, the USA is also making its own regulations binding for everyone. In addition to the scenarios of combating climate change, these two main economic powers also need different fictions that can sustain the social and economic comfort within their borders. In particular, the exponential growth of migration will be accompanied by the danger of disrupting the structure of the global economy, production, and the distribution of labor. While the EU considers the reporting of the companies in the member states to be inadequate in terms of quality and quantity, the companies that make a significant part of their trade to the member countries need a much more long-term and patient endeavor. Although the translations of the regulations consisting of numerous articles are often not easily comprehended in different cultures, it is a fact that ethics-based efforts will make this process permanent and understandable. In this context, sustainability studies and reporting of corporate firms, which are the core structures, have been analyzed in a way to include the supply chain. Many of the reports examined reveal the existence of knowledge and experience gaps that will lead to social and ecological problems as well as low impact value. The study brings an applied ethical suggestion to the ethical value analyses of the existing approaches and tries to reveal to what extent all these global efforts, the core subject of which is ethics, can overlap with ethical behavior.
Reports on the topic "Corporate power – fiction"
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Tyson, Paul. Australia: Pioneering the New Post-Political Normal in the Bio-Security State. Mέta | Centre for Postcapitalist Civilisation, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.55405/mwp10en.
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This paper argues that liberal democratic politics in Australia is in a life-threatening crisis. Australia is on the verge of slipping into a techno-feudal (post-capitalist) and post-political (new Centrist) state of perpetual emergency. Citizens in Australia, be they of the Left or Right, must make an urgent attempt to wrest power from an increasingly non-political Centrism. Within this Centrism, government is deeply captured by the international corporate interests of Big Tech, Big Natural Resources, Big Media, and Big Pharma, as beholden to the economic necessities of the neoliberal world order (Big Finance). Australia now illustrates what the post-political ‘new normal’ of a high-tech enabled bio-security state actually looks like. It may even be that the liberal democratic state is now little more than a legal fiction in Australia. This did not happen over-night, but Australia has been sliding in this direction for the past three decades. The paper outlines that slide and shows how the final bump down (covid) has now positioned Australia as a world leader among post-political bio-security states.