When Firms Become Persons and Persons Become Firms
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ธ.ค. 2024
- Speaker : Professor Wendy Brown
Recorded on 1 July 2015 at Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House
In the United States, the extension of civil liberties to corporations is transforming democracy through rights adjudication. Best known in this regard is Citizens United v. The Federal Election Commission, the 2010 Supreme Court decision permitting corporate funding to flood the U.S. electoral process on the basis of corporate rights to free speech. In 2014, Burwell vs Hobby Lobby granted firms the right to the free exercise of religion, and hence the ability to withhold insurance coverage of abortions and abortifacients for their employees. This lecture explores the neoliberal logic of the Hobby Lobby decision, makes an argument about the transformations of democracy these decisions entail, and concludes with a critique of Foucault’s formulation of the relation of law, state and economy in neoliberalism.
Wendy Brown is Class of 1936 First Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley.
Emily Jackson is Professor of Law and Head of Department in the Law Department at LSE.
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Excellent lecture. Thankful for having the privilege to listen to Mrs. WENDY Brown on this incredible education about our present economic markets and the rule of law in our present lives!
Just at the time of the Bork hearings, (1986) Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind was - forgive the expression - flying off bookshelves, and was considered to be an antidote to what Bloom himself would have described as "the Nietzscheanization of the Left." Wendy Brown, who has her own thoughts on Nietzsche, here gives an admirable reading of the opposed trend, "the Nietzscheanization of the Right." I especially appreciated her criticism of the liberal justices failure to get at the heart of the conservative revaluation of personhood as corporate power.
its a sad and absurd day when the first amendmant forces people to live by their employers religion.
Did her mic die at the end?
What about self enrichment from the non monetary
The right has become a bad snl skit except it's not a skit it is real life