The Corpocene makes the corporation the sole model of personhood

Evidence

The Corpocene names the moment when the ideal subject—a model realized in figures like Star and Donaldson—renders equivalent corporeal body and corporate body, where the corporation becomes the model for selfhood, for social relation, for “success.” This inverts the model of corporate personhood central to countless juridical norms needed for the functioning of modern capital and social life. Not only do corporations appear as “people”—with “personhood” a legal fiction necessary for defining and parceling out the rights and responsibilities of groups and agents that cannot be reduced to single individuals—but people themselves adopt the structure and function of a corporation. In the Corpocene, the only thing that truly appears as a “person,” as worthy of rights and protections under law, is a corporation. — Grant Bollmer, Katherine Guinness, The Influencer Factory, 343

Categorization

• DEFINE: Core definition of the Corpocene — the exact term the reader needs to teach.
• XREF: Connects directly to the reader’s ongoing analysis of corporate personhood jurisprudence and the influencer-as-firm thesis.
• ADDENDUM: Ties to labor theory of value concern — the person-corporate fusion sets up the question of what the commodity is.