You had someone called the censor, which is interesting in and of itself, who took the censuses and oversaw things like public manners and morals and so that idea of censor actually is to appraise value and to judge. [...] And it was a place of genocide and perilousness where crisis, famine, the failure of British agricultural policies led to the death of millions of people and these are the reasons why people migrated to other parts of the world. [...] And there’s of course the prior moment I think of colonization – I mean I think of colonization and the slave trade are of course completely intertwined – but of reading about the ways that the notions of discovery, discovering the New World really I think of it as now through Spillers as this really interesting process by which colonizers were seduced by the availability of these people who then. [...] The example that I like to use, in Southwest Ontario and for the listeners if you don’t know much about Ontario, the area that I organize with is just outside of Detroit and the mythology is that these farmers put food on the tables of Canadians and Americans. [...] And the reduction of people to thingness, right? Earlier, Natalie, you were talking about the ways that I think the farm workers and the robots and the land form an integrated circuit, right? And there are failures at every level however the only ones who are punished for the failures as Chris pointed out are the laborers, right? And so I think that the sort of thingification, the plantation logic.
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