The Post-Partisan Emporium

  Toxic Entities An infection is sweeping the globe as you read this RADIO FAR SIDE The Paper Golem If you’ve read my book,  Paper Golem: Corporate Personhood & the Legal Fiction , then you are already aware of today’s topic, and you have more than 100 footnotes and 50 citations for further research. If you haven’t read it, you are unaware of the means by which our world is being transformed, while protecting the perpetrators. With the shameless plug out of the way, let’s dive in. I am of the opinion that corporations are the most insidious and pervasive societal ills we face right now. My book explores the origins and evolution of corporate persons, from ancient Sumer to the upcoming off-world entities. They are the product and embodiment of fascism, and they don’t care a whit about us. Corporations are soulless immortal beings of our own creation that are eating the life out of our civilization and our species. They have infiltrated and infected every aspect of our lives. They si

Prison Pod Cities and Killer Robots We already live under the cyborg devouring mother Mary Harrington Image credit:  Vanessa GF According to a  report  out today from intergovernmental watchdog  International IDEA , half the world’s democracies showed signs of decline over the last five years. Well, no sh** Sherlock - most of those democracies spent a significant portion of that half-decade forbidden to associate freely, in some cases compelled to undergo medical interventions, and subject to fines or even imprisonment if we breached strict rules about being out of the house for anything except a narrowly defined set of reasons. It’s not clear whether International IDEA will have anything to say about Covid measures, of course, but faced with the propagation of authoritarian pandemic policies throughout most advanced democracies, any watchdog measuring the state of ‘civil liberties’ would surely struggle to find anything positive to say. Reasonable people remain divided, of course, ove