The Ecology of Empire: Wal-Mart's Rhetoric of Environmental Stewardship and the Constitutive Power of the Multitude

This essay provides a critical account of Wal-Mart's rhetoric of environmental stewardship. By situating this discourse within a new political economy of production and governance that Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri have termed empire, I argue that environmental communication scholars should limit the rush to deploy ideological criticism when explaining the corporation's rhetorical motives. Instead, I advocate reading Wal-Mart's rhetoric as a problem of historical conjunctures, a critical move that seeks to highlight, not only the structural interests of capital, but also the centrality of social antagonism. In the case of Wal-Mart, this means accounting for the increased significance of demand to economic production, changes in the composition of sovereignty, and the transgressive function of environmentalism at the beginning of the twenty-first century.     

我国桐油发展战略与对策

桐油是我国的特产资源,其价值之高,用途之广,早已引起许多国家的重视;其化学结构之特殊,化学性质之活泼,引起许多化学工作者的兴趣,而致力于桐油化学科学的研究。我国种植油桐历史修久,远在公元前六世纪有文记载。新中国成立后,党 和政府非常重视,周总理曾亲自主持全国油桐工作会议,油桐得到了空前发展。