Corporate agents carry disembodied concern that immunizes them against consequences

Evidence

For the agents of conspiracy, Sorge [conern] is a matter of smiling confidence, and the preoccupation is not personal but corporate, concern for the vitality of the network or the institution, a disembodied distraction or inattentiveness engaging the absent space of the collective organization itself without the clumsy conjectures that sap the energies of the victims. These people know, and are therefore able to invest their presence as characters in an intense yet complacent attention whose centre of gravity is elsewhere: a rapt intentness which is at the same time disinterest. Yet this very different type of concern, equally depersonalised, carries its own specific anxiety with it, as it were unconsciously and corporately, without any consequences for the individual villains. — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 143

Categorization

• DEFINE: Jameson’s description of corporate ‘Sorge’ — attention whose center of gravity is elsewhere — names an affective structure relevant to management ethics discussions.
• XREF: connects to: Corporate ideologies can make harming others seem appropriate; Corporate wrongdoing stems from diffused responsibility rather than individual guilt — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism: A Critique of…, 377

Broader Connections

• Corporate ideologies can make harming others seem appropriate #expands (0.80)
• Corporate wrongdoing stems from diffused responsibility rather than individual guilt #expands (0.75) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 377