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Corporate Personhood and the Modernist Poetics of Impersonality by Herschel Farbman

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, the legal personhood of the business
corporation hypertrophied wildly. Meanwhile, it was high times for cults of poetic
“impersonality.” This talk looks into the relationship between corporate personhood and
modernist “impersonality”— particularly Virginia Woolf’s version of it—in hopes of
finding there some critical leverage on the problem of corporate personhood as we
confront it today, in the age of Citizens United.

A talk by Herschel Farbman.
Coffee, Tea, and Water will be provided.
Please bring your own lunch.