The Uncanny Spirit of Capital

In the sphere of corporate and commercial law, the art of representation generates persons, allows one person to substitute for another or to act "as if" they were another, and sustains the artifact of the corporation. We know that these operations or artifacts are "fictitious," but the distinction between real and fictional normalizes or naturalizes a "law-effect" that has happened before that distinction is made, and which consists in the decomposition and rearticulation of mindbody into person-functions. In this article, I explore the fabrication of these uncanny and radically nonhuman functions by way of a reflection on the personification of slaves in ancient Roman law

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