U+ZINE #2 - Do Corporations have a future? - Plurality University

In science fiction, corporations are mostly
vilains
/ More and more corporation resort to science
fiction to think about their future.
DO
CORPORATIONS
HAVE
A FUTURE?
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Entrepreneurs want to “change the world”
/ The narratives of “collapse” often begin with
that
of markets and corporations.
Corporations create wealth
/ Corporations extract and hoard wealth.
The Anthropocene
/ The Capitalocene.
Corporations are changing
/ We’ve heard that before.
…
… Is there a role for corporations in a truly sustainable
future? If so, what kinds of corporations,
governed how, producing what, how, with and for
whom?
And what is a corporation, really? Even today, what
do a large multinational company, a freelancer’s
cooperative, a startup looking for a buyer, a web
platform, the managers of a local Commons, a “distributed
autonomous corporation” (DAO), a Bcorp
(B for « Benefit"), have in common? What if we invented
new words in order to invent new realities,
new productive organizations?
For the 2nd edition of U+ZINE, the Plurality University
Network invited artistic, fictional, speculative and
utopian works looking at the future of corporations,
corporations of the future, or completely revisiting
our idea of “the corporation”.
In this Zine, you will find a selection of the content
that we gathered and received. You will find it all online
here: https://corpora.latelier-des-chercheurs.
fr/uzine-do-corporations-have-a-future
Also, since we felt that we needed new words to
describe how things currently known as corporations
might change and diversify in the future, we
created a little game to do just that. If you play it, let
us know what you came up with!