Introduction
Corporations have been given various names according to their past impacts on society. Klein describes corporations as being fictitious entities that are backed by the law and exploit citizens. Their power is seen as being granted basically by the law, without which these large bodies would be toothless. In some states such as America, the Supreme Court has constantly increased the powers of corporations by making sure that the law is in favor of these large business bodies. Their existence has been criticized by many. Their objective is considered by the majority as not aimed at assisting the people, but at extorting money from individuals so that to benefit the shareholders (De Angelis 102).
Characteristics of Corporations
Most people do not care about how corporations operate, the cost of resources, who they affect and the impact they impose on the environment as long as they get whatever they want. For instance, BP Corporation was not blamed for water pollution; it was considered to have been struggling to satisfy the energy needs of the people (Klein 14).
Corporations are very important in any state. This is because some nations and especially the developed nations have very big corporations that play a pivotal role in their economies. This has enabled them being very powerful. For example, some non-governmental organizations can have such influence that when they open subsidiary stations in other countries where they are required to follow certain protocols, their parent country steps in to try and meddle with the regulations in the host nation to enable them operate the way they deem it ok for them (Klein 14). Considering that these multinational are very rich then the host country may be forced to comply with demands of parent state in order to secure employment and other benefits for the local citizens (De Angelis 102). Furthermore these larger multinationals can easily interfere with the intentional laws and public policies on many nations to keep their corporations running. Such operations prompt questions regarding sovereignty as they are definitely interfering with the integrity of the domestic decision procedure. The International Monetary Fund and several other economic organizations habitually discuss conditionality treaties that include specific economic targets and domestic changes on some institutions like pledging some states to crack down impunity, corruption and do away with certain cartels (De Angelis 102).
Corporation and Governments
There is a very strong connection between governments and corporations because these relationships are beneficial to the two parties. Nonetheless, the people who are supposed to benefit usually suffer. Governments consider Multinational Corporations to have been very important to growing economy and globalization. They facilitate inflow of capital markets for development that enhance employment consequently increased economic growth and the real earning by the citizens is also high (Deleuze 177). As a result, governments become so lenient on the transnational corporation even when they violate the human rights and environmental laws. All Corporations are subject to international laws. For instance, under the provision of workers and the working environment, the companies pledge to respect and sustain the internationally recognized set of rules that grant workers their inalienable rights (Klein 14).
They also state that these rules shall be the guidelines of their operations according to the way they are provided for by the UN declaration about the right of workers and the international labor standards. The firms also pledge to adhere to the domestic legal framework of the countries that they operate in (Klein 14). Important factor to note is the diversity and inclusion strategies which appreciates the value of every individual. A second aspect is to observe is the safety, health and general wellbeing of workers. This means that the employee interest will be addressed with keen interest. However when it comes to real operations, these corporations usually fails to adhere to their pledges. They often start offering very low wages, poor working conditions and even recruit children to exploit cheaper child labor (Deleuze 177). They fail to care for the environment as they seek to reduce expenses and maximize their profits.
Researchers claim that the Activities of human beings are a threat to survival of plants and animals. There is a proof that biodiversity is very important naturally for healthy environment. Basically for the constitution to guarantee healthy environment, the definition should encompass the broader concept of environmental health. The constitution currently does not just grant right to life, but also grants right to an ecologically – balanced surrounding. The human rights body that investigates and control abuse of these rights has found out that child employment in areas like Latin America and China has become so rampant that the people there are used to working with children until they no longer view it as a social concern (Deleuze 178).
Social Centers
The society is changing rapidly and the social setting is becoming more liberal than ever before. People shift from a closed setting to the next and so on. For example, one gets out of family, then to school, to work place like in the military, occasionally get to the hospital, among other places. Human beings tend to seek control and this is usually not an easy task. Control or independence of people has well been expressed in social setting like digital media (Torres para. 1). There are super Amigos which are used to communicate out subjectivity of people as well as express their autonomy. The super amigo is a film that presents the fight between bad and good. Basically this is what supporters say (Klein 14). The films are used to express the problems being faced in the society. These problems include discrimination against gay and so on. The autonomy of such people is supported and preserved in these wrestling films. The people are given power to ask for their rights and so on (Klein 14).
Professional wrestling is very popular in America and the audience keeps increasing. However a better wrestling game has grown up in Mexico. This is the Libre Licha. This is a Mexican type that is characterized by competitors who are dressed in unique costumes and masks that communicate the message being put across (Torres para. 3). The seemingly complex back-story and adoration by fanatics shames discriminatory laws and people. These wrestlers are so revered that politicians and social activists have borrowed the ostentatious styles and public popularity to reach the population. Various wrestlers are used to represent various aspects of social features. Fray Tormenta is a wrestler that represents a priest working with children, orphaned. Ecologistica Universal represents environmentalists, and super Barrio is the low income or homeless class of people (Torres para. 4). Super animal fights for animal rights while super gay is the counselor to the victims of gay bashing.
These fights have helped in fighting for social justice and empowering the community. They also fight oppression and discrimination so that even gay have their rights respected. They can organize gay pride activities and so on. Rather than fighting for the championships belts, these wrestlers of the Super Amigos use their wrestling for addressing social problems and spreading awareness to the community (Torres para. 4). Form this, they also find a way of getting feedback and solutions. By wearing masks and costumes, these wrestlers also protect their metropolis from injustice as they present themselves as anonymous.
Their activities include activities that pass a message to the community. Super Animal, the animal rights supporter challenges bullfighting match.The super gay on the other hand started fighting for gay rights following the death of his boyfriend (Torres para. 5). The boyfriend dies from barbaric beating and super gay vows to fight homophobia. These fights bring up the autonomy of individuals when it comes to love issues and marriage. Ecologista Universal fights against any form of environmental destruction, while Super Barrio defends poor tenants who are on the brink of running homeless. He assists them handle slumlords who want to evict them (Klein 14).
Super Amigos has shown that utilizing creativity, a good heart and the correct mask, it is very possible to create awareness in the community so that evil is triumphed over. From this we can also realize that the society is more like a factory. This factory has undermined the comprehension of very critical distinction, that there is difference between production and circulation as factors of capitalism. In case autonomist is considered a subjective experience in the precepts of capitalism, then capitalism can be regarded as personalized enemy of everyone’s subjectivity (Dyer-Witheford 45). The poorest migrants or a human resource manger of a multinational firm have to be equal in the society and how they are to be treated.
Radical Education Collective
Radical education was first initiated in the year 2006. The basis of setting up this education system was to try and look for means of translating the traditional radical pedagogy into a phase of artistic presentation whereby education would not merely be visualized as a model, but a real area of political participation. The objective was to establish a distinctive, but progressive micro-political environment in the gallery itself. This is the type of vital antipode conservative and neo-liberal propensities that dominate in the art systems. From the beginning, the radical education was comprehended in terms of heterogeneous context whereby art was one of the fields among many. This is the reason why the project inclines towards engaged art, participatory art among other categories (Deleuze & Foucault 200).
It’s been for a long time now and the community has been trying to ask questions that address political potential of artwork. There have been concerns about freeing the ground-breaking impending ability of art from the social and political types of representation and limit expansive means.
There is creativity in politics currently where people are seeking a way of remaining in control all the time, as highlighted, even exams in schools and colleges have been made to be continuous assessment and school is now continuous education. This means that these things are not ending and business will still be in play. This seems production is no longer the main event in this process. Capitalism is being transferred from one aspect of economy to the next. Factors like family, school and work are not analogous as they used to be, but rather collectively making up a complete person. Art has also shifted from the closed environments to the more open. Corruption is taking new form in this case and marketing process is a tool of social control and process arrogant people who become the masters. This type of dominance is short term and rapidly shifts, but remains unbound and will not continue for so long. Capitalism has changed face, but still keeps the main impact on humanity constant (Deleuze & Foucault 200). Poverty, for the poor, who will remain in debt and to the majority, there will be confinement. To remain in control, one has to handle vanishing frontiers.
At the university level, it has been noticed that administrators are moving up and down visiting interlocking corporations and education boards (Deleuze & Foucault 200). Assisted by the intellectual property regulation, these administrators are entitled to ownership rights over copyright results from government sponsored grants. Universities actively take part in merchandizing results of researches (Dyer-Witheford 45). As the commercial ethos intensifies, academics are slowly but steadily corporatizing the internal operations. This is a new rapprochement has enables two main activities, it has offered business with socializing facilities where cost and risk of costly high tech search. Privatization of the benefits of innovations is many. Second, the act has subsidized capital retraining on labor (Situaciones 188). Capitalism has grown to become mutant in information phase which makes it even more intellectual. Firms like Motorola, McDonalds have their own campuses in universities.
Conclusion
Intellectuals are advocates of capitalism. The intent of intellectual role is not to be ahead rather together. Collectivism fights power (Situaciones 188). The struggle is targeting revelation and undermining power in areas it’s most invisible and insidious. Consciousness has to be described as a type of knowledge. Thus it forms grounds for subjectivity which in turn is a right of bourgeoisie (Situaciones 188).
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