The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power
Lisa Kemmerer reviews "The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power" by Joel Bakan (Free Press in the US, Robinson Publishing in the UK, 2005).
"We have, over the last three hundred years constructed a remarkably efficient wealth-creating machine, but it is now out of control." (p159) The out-of-control machine to which Bakan refers in his highly readable and informative book is the corporation. Few entities are as damaging to the environment as are corporations. Bakan's book outlines the history of the problems that stem from too much corporate power, describes some of the worst consequences of this trend, and proposes ways of bringing this out-of-control wealth-creating machine back in line with common decency.
monochrom is an art-technology-philosophy group having its seat in Vienna and Zeta Draconis. monochrom is an unpeculiar mixture of proto-aesthetic fringe work, pop attitude, subcultural science, context hacking and political activism. Our mission is conducted everywhere, but first and foremost in culture-archeological digs into the seats (and pockets) of ideology and entertainment. monochrom has existed in this (and almost every other) form since 1993. [more]
