PHM-Exch> The Corporation – State of Power 2020 / Transnacionales - Estado del Poder 2020

[Claudio Schuftan]

El 11 feb. 2020 07:32, "Monica Vargas C." <m.vargas at tni.org> escribió:

*[English below]*

Compañero/as,

Tenemos el gusto de compartirles el "Estado del Poder 2020", publicación
anual del TNI, que este año se ha concentrado en las transnacionales, con
una serie de ensayos y videos que examinan los distintos aspectos del
modelo corporativo moderno.

Entre las personas que han contribuido se encuentra un amplio espectro de
académico/as, juristas, activistas de India y Brazil, hackers, un
ex-banquero de Goldman Sachs. Los ensayos abarcan de una forma innovadora
ámbitos complejos como la financiarización, la digitalización y las
transnacionales chinas. Las ilustraciones fueron hechas por Anastasya
Elisseva, de Sudáfrica.

*De momento la publicación está en inglés y se traducirá de forma paulatina
una gran parte hacia el castellano. *

Hay 2 maneras de acceder al informe. La más visual es mediante este enalce:
longreads.tni.org/state-of-power-2020, pero también pueden acceder mediante
nuestra web www.tni.org/stateofpower2020, donde también encuentran una
lista más larga de ensayos.

Les agradeceríamos mucho que pudieran apoyarnos en la difusión de la
siguiente manera:

1.Redes sociales- Facebook,
<https://www.facebook.com/TransnationalInstitute/> Twitter
<http://twitter.com/tninstitute>, Linkedin
<https://www.linkedin.com/company/transnationalinstitute>, Instagram
<https://www.instagram.com/transnationalinstitute/>, Mastodon, Signal
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2. Distribuir por correo electrónico el boletín de abajo o bien publicar en
sus propios boletines, listas de Whasap, y otras listas de activistas y
académico/as que podrían estar interesado/as.

****We are very pleased to share to you the State of Power 2020, the TNI
publication, focused this year on 'The Corporation'. We have a series of
videos and essays highlighting different dimensions of the modern
corporation.


The contributors range across a wide range of activist and academic fields.
They include law professors, activists in India and Brazil, digital
hackers, an academic who has fought off lawsuits and an ex-Goldman Sachs
banker. The pieces cover familiar ground in fresh ways and new dynamics
such as the financialisation and digitalisation of corporations as well as
the implications of the rise of Chinese corporations. The illustrations are
done by Anastasya Eliseeva, based in South Africa.

There are two ways to view the report. The most visual one is
longreads.tni.org/state-of-power-2020/ but you can also access it via our
main website <https://www.tni.org/en/stateofpower2020>
www.tni.org/stateofpower2020 which also has a slightly longer list of
essays.

We kindly ask you to support in spreading the word about it.

Here are some promotional suggestions:

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<http://twitter.com/tninstitute>, Linkedin
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Diaspora etc. If you tag TNI, we will share you too (click on the linked
platforms earlier to see our different profiles).

2. Email the newsletter below with a plug for any piece you particularly
enjoy to any friends/contacts who might be interested, to your own
newsletter lists, Whatsapp groups, academic and activists lists that might
be interested.
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From: Transnational Institute <news at tni.org> <news at tni.org>






Today, 78 of the 100 world’s largest economies are corporations. They have
more power than ever before and shape our lives like never before. If you
are an activist, you will invariably confront a corporation. Yet for such a
powerful institution, we often know remarkably little about corporations.
How they are structured, how they work, how they are changing, their
strategies.

For our ninth flagship State of Power report, we decided to delve deep into
the origins, nature and changing dynamics of corporate power today with
contributions by prominent activists and scholars worldwide. We hope you
find its mix of video introductions, illustrations and insightful essays
useful for your work. If you enjoy it, please do two things: first share it
with networks, movements, individuals via email and social media, and
second consider donating to TNI. We really need your financial support to
keep doing the work we do.
Read the full report online
<https://app.getresponse.com/click.html?x=a62b&lc=B6O0wj&mc=9B&s=WhgHQb&u=Stcs4&y=W&z=EFYIGLc&>

Video's
<https://app.getresponse.com/click.html?x=a62b&lc=B6O0QV&mc=9B&s=WhgHQb&u=Stcs4&y=A&z=EyF8ImS&>
<https://app.getresponse.com/click.html?x=a62b&lc=B6O0MN&mc=9B&s=WhgHQb&u=Stcs4&y=8&z=Ew4Pn6&>
<https://app.getresponse.com/click.html?x=a62b&lc=B6O0C2&mc=9B&s=WhgHQb&u=Stcs4&y=I&z=E94Ahko&>

Interviews
Charming psychopaths: The modern corporation
In 2003, law professor Joel Bakan made a splash when his book and film, The
Corporation, argued that corporations had the pyschological profile of a
psychopath. Find out why Bakan believes 17 years later that corporations
today may be even more dangerous.
> Read online
<https://app.getresponse.com/click.html?x=a62b&lc=B6O0Vh&mc=9B&s=WhgHQb&u=Stcs4&y=3&z=EwrYBVT&>
Rethinking the Corporation
*Conversation with Tchenna Maso, Nomi Prins and Barnaby Francis*

Human rights activist, Tchenna Maso works in a Brazilian movement that
helped win criminal charges against 15 managers of the mining giant Vale.
Nomi Prins was a Goldman Sachs executive before she left to advocate for
radical reform of the financial sector. Artist and activist Barnaby Francis
made a 'deepfake' video of Zuckerberg that exposed Facebook’s unethical
publishing practices. Read this fascinating conversation by three leading
figures on the nature of today's corporation, how to best mobilise against
its power and impunity, and what could replace it.
> Read online
<https://app.getresponse.com/click.html?x=a62b&lc=B6O0JY&mc=9B&s=WhgHQb&u=Stcs4&y=K&z=EhBpzVI&>

Essays
The intelligent corporation: Data and the digital economy
*Anita Gurumurthy and Nandini Chami*
The Corporation is on the cusp of achieving ‘quantum supremacy’ as a result
of its massive accumulation of data powered by algorithmic-based
intelligence. Social movements need to grasp this change quickly.
> Read online
<https://app.getresponse.com/click.html?x=a62b&lc=B6O0FR&mc=9B&s=WhgHQb&u=Stcs4&y=S&z=EIQpVUO&>

Beyond ‘China, Inc.'understanding Chinese companies
*Lee Jones*
119 of the Fortune 500 list of the world’s largest companies are now
Chinese, just behind the US (121). How does a Chinese transnational differ
to a Western one and what are the implications for movements that confront
their impacts?
> Read online
<https://app.getresponse.com/click.html?x=a62b&lc=B6O0Rg&mc=9B&s=WhgHQb&u=Stcs4&y=k&z=EEESJ1y&>

The corporate architecture of impunity: Lex Mercatoria, market
authoritarianism and popular resistance
*Adoración Guamán *
Key to corporate power today is the way corporations have helped forge
national and international law to protect them from accountability for
human rights violations and to bolster a politics of market
authoritarianism.
> Read online
<https://app.getresponse.com/click.html?x=a62b&lc=B6O0lL&mc=9B&s=WhgHQb&u=Stcs4&y=F&z=EGXBBPk&>

Corporations as private sovereign powers: The case of Total
*Alain Deneault*
Canadian academic Deneault has faced lawsuits for his exposure of mining
corporations. In this essay, he delves deep into oil giant Total to expose
how corporations have effectively become private sovereign powers.
> Read online
<https://app.getresponse.com/click.html?x=a62b&lc=B6O0Oy&mc=9B&s=WhgHQb&u=Stcs4&y=q&z=EMRZSun&>

The financialised firm: How finance fuels and transforms today’s
corporation
*Myriam Vander Stichele*
The financial sector does not just provide a lifeline to corporations, it
is actively helping them expand and changing the very nature of the modern
corporation.
> Read online
<https://app.getresponse.com/click.html?x=a62b&lc=B6O0XO&mc=9B&s=WhgHQb&u=Stcs4&y=w&z=E9n3Jk7&>

The end of the Corporation? It’s time to make the profit-maximising,
shareholder-controlled corporation obsolete
*Marjorie Kelly*
We need to envisage and create an entirely new concept of the company – a
just firm – designed from the inside out for a new mandate: to serve broad
wellbeing and the public good. Author of the award-winning *Owning Our
Future: The Emerging Ownership Revolution* sketches out possibilities for a
post-corporate future.
> Read online
<https://app.getresponse.com/click.html?x=a62b&lc=B6O0v4&mc=9B&s=WhgHQb&u=Stcs4&y=T&z=EFXszW9&>
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