POSITION STATEMENT
Collision of Governance and Capital (Nachtrab, 2020)
Following the decision in the contentious Supreme Court case Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission—which secured corporations the right to spend their money on political interests—a critical turning point occurred, leading to the rise of Super PACS and a general trend towards increased political corruption1. What this thesis posits is a near-future alternate reality where the nation’s most powerful corporations wield the already large amount of control they have, seizing land and resources that best serve their specific needs. For investigative purposes, ten existing corporations from ten industries are speculated upon. 4
