"collective thought cannot exist as thought, it passes into things (signs, machines . . .). Hence the paradox: it is the thing which thinks, and the man who is reduced to the state of a thing.”
(Jan) Christoph Bublitz
"Anglo-American legal systems developed corporate personhood to project large business entities on the model of rationally contracting individuals."
Laurie Anderson, Habeas Corpus (2015), Park Avenue Armoury (New York, NY). Photo by James Ewing. Until the 1990s, the term “personhood”—the quality or condition of being an individual person—appeared…