Alain Deneault is Canadian correspondent for the International College of Philosophy (Paris), Philosophy professor at the Université de Moncton/Acadian Peninsula and Author of De quoi Total est-elle la somme ? and Le Totalitarisme pervers (Rue de l’Échiquier · Écosociété)
'SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS wp_posts.ID
FROM wp_posts INNER JOIN wp_postmeta ON ( wp_posts.ID = wp_postmeta.post_id )
WHERE 1=1 AND (
wp_posts.ID NOT IN (
SELECT object_id
FROM wp_term_relationships
WHERE term_taxonomy_id IN (47485,47486)
)
) AND (
(
( wp_postmeta.meta_key = \'the_author\' AND wp_postmeta.meta_value = \'3480505\' )
OR
( wp_postmeta.meta_key = \'secondary_author\' AND wp_postmeta.meta_value LIKE \'{e8a0233f72ba684f25b1606beb119ba6c66d673cdca2bc986a38f7d58075e6ed}\\"3480505\\"{e8a0233f72ba684f25b1606beb119ba6c66d673cdca2bc986a38f7d58075e6ed}\' )
)
) AND wp_posts.post_type = \'post\' AND ((wp_posts.post_status = \'publish\'))
GROUP BY wp_posts.ID
ORDER BY wp_posts.post_date DESC
LIMIT 0, 6'
Corporations as Private Sovereign Powers: The Case of Total
Having studied, written on and engaged in public discussion about transnational corporations (TNCs), I have reached the conclusion that we are not collectively equipped to think about the kind of power that they represent, the silent way they exercise their specific form of sovereignty and the numerous mechanisms that allow them to circumvent the law wherever they operate.
March 16, 2020