From the Red Core to the Black Sky: Corporate Crime in the Transnational Matrix
Year: 2006
Type: preprint
Abstract: Popular culture has presented a series of what Harlan Ellison might call dangerous visions wherein man's creations become his master. This trope is as old as speculative fiction, but The Matrix adds a new twist in that machines are able to project an alternate reality that hides the role reversal between the creators and the created. The marketocracy, government by transnational corporations, has projected just such an alternate reality, rendering the power of nation-states and the people they represent illusory. The problems become whether individuals and nation-states need to take the red pill and what that would mean for criminal justice policy.
Source: SSRN Electronic Journal
Author: Steve Russell
Institutions: Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana University
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2299648407