Enron Critics Flashcards
1
Q
How is Skilling presented?
A
As a Marlovian Over-reacher
2
Q
Capitalism
A
- ‘Capitalism is exposed as a contrick and an illusion’
- ‘and in such a way, the world is changed’
3
Q
Spectacle, what are we shown
A
- ‘not a lecture on corporate madness but an ultra theatrical demonstration of it at work’
- Board as mice with Ken Lay in the centre
- ‘Out of the shadows a raptor appears’
4
Q
What are we left with after the collapse?
A
- The lessons of this vast collapse are still to be learned.
- ‘Widespread throughout the business world’
5
Q
Negative Skilling
A
- Skilling’s ‘Fraudulent fantasies’ cause the crash
- ‘the gap between the perception and the reality’
6
Q
Foucault
A
- Spectacle was once used by the state and church to keep the masses under control. Now it is how the global corporate power keeps the masses in illusion’
7
Q
Enron as a whole (Cavendish)
A
- ‘Full of darkness, insanity and excess’
- ‘All humanity is here. There’s greed, there’s fear,joy, faith, hope… and the greatest of these…is Money.’
- Subversion of ‘love’ Corinthians
8
Q
Modern Lear (Rees)
A
- ‘About the demise and collapse of power’
9
Q
What does Prebble expose?
A
‘Prebble exposes greed and selfishness’
10
Q
Reason for the fall
A
‘Analogy between personal and financial hubris’
