Capitalism has no center, only entities incapable of responsibility

Evidence

This was what happened with the Hillsborough football disaster, the Jean Charles De Menezes farce and so many other cases. But this impasse – it is only individuals that can be held ethically responsible for actions, and yet the cause of these abuses and errors is corporate, systemic – is not only a dissimulation: it precisely indicates what is lacking in capitalism. What agencies are capable of regulating and controlling impersonal structures? How is it possible to chastise a corporate structure? Yes, corporations can legally be treated as individuals – but the problem is that corporations, whilst certainly entities, are not like individual humans, and any analogy between punishing corporations and punishing individuals will therefore necessarily be poor. And it is not as if corporations are the deep-level agents behind everything; they are themselves constrained by/ expressions of the ultimate cause-that-is-not-a-subject: Capital. — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 145 (#builds-on, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The centerlessness of capitalism is unconsciously unbearable and disavowed — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 130; Capital as cause-that-is-not-a-subject escapes all accountability structures — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 145; Call center rage is directed at a fellow victim with no effect — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 132 (+7 more)

Related

• Capital as cause-that-is-not-a-subject escapes all accountability structures (similarity 0.90)
• Capital’s center is missing yet still posited as a responsible agent (similarity 0.85)
• Corporations resist ethical chastisement because they are not human individuals (similarity 0.84)
• Capital’s missing center still gets posited because what exists cannot take responsibility (similarity 0.81)
• The centerlessness of capitalism is unconsciously unbearable and disavowed (similarity 0.80)
• Corporations depend on a fiction that nobody individually believes (similarity 0.79)
• Blame-shifting alternates between individual scapegoats and diffuse structure to shield capital (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Capitalism has no necessary correspondence with any particular political or legal form #expands (0.85)
• Capitalism has no necessary correspondence with parliamentary democracy #exemplifies (0.85)
• Capitalism has no necessary political form but tends toward parliamentary democracy #qualifies (0.75) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 624
• Total universalization of capitalism erases the concept of the system itself #expands (0.70) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 865