02.20.2012
C is for Corporation
A series of 26 posts featuring excerpts from Joshua Glenn?s The Idler?s Glossary (Biblioasis, 2008) and The Wage Slave?s Glossary (Biblioasis, 2011). Both books were coauthored by Mark Kingwell, who contributed entertaining philosophical-critical essays on the subjects of idling and wage slavery; and both were wittily illustrated and designed by the cartoonist Seth.
A legally sanctioned entity, most often used to conduct business, which ? though immortal, unless ?dissolved? ? has its own status and rights like a natural person. Critics argue that granting personhood to an organization with no personal liability creates a Frankenstein monster: a legal entity without any moral or legal responsibility to encourage restraint, yet with the ability and resources to exploit natural resources, co-opt public policy, and wreak havoc on communities. Legal scholar Joel Bakan has described the modern corporation as a ?psychopath.?
ALSO: Alienation | Big Rock Candy Mountains | Dawdle | Employee of the Month | Flazy | Greybearding | Hobo | Inemuri | Jack of All Trades | Knock Off Work | Lazy | Micawberish | Nobbing It | Onboarding | Pink Slip | Quitter | Robot | Stakhanovite | Time and Motion Study | Unemployment | Volupt? | Wage Slavery | Xerox Subsidy | Yakuza | Zero Drag
MORE POSTS by Joshua Glenn
Joshua Glenn is an editor, publisher, and a freelance writer and semiologist. He does business as KING MIXER, LLC.
He's cofounder of the websites HiLobrow, Significant Objects, and Semionaut; and cofounder of HiLoBooks, which will reissue six Radium Age sci fi novels in 2012. In 2011, he produced and co-designed the iPhone app KER-PUNCH. He's coauthored and co-edited TAKING THINGS SERIOUSLY, THE IDLER'S GLOSSARY, THE WAGE SLAVE'S GLOSSARY, the story collection SIGNIFICANT OBJECTS (forthcoming from Fantagraphics), and the kids' field guide to life UNBORED, forthcoming from Bloomsbury.
In the '00s, Glenn was an editor and columnist at the Boston Globe's IDEAS section; he started the IDEAS blog Brainiac. In the '90s, he published the seminal intellectual zine Hermenaut; co-directed the DIY social networking site Tripod.com; and was an editor at Utne Reader. He has written frequently for Slate, n+1, Cabinet, io9, The Baffler, Feed, and The Idler.
Glenn manages the secret society Hermenautic Circle. He was born and raised in Boston, where he lives with his wife and sons. Click here for more info.
Source: http://hilobrow.com/2012/02/20/c-is-for-corporation/
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