A farmer’s labor is no longer innocent because it is always already cultural

Evidence

A man involved in agriculture is inevitably a man involved in culture: he can no longer produce innocently. … Daily wc hear about how occupations connected \vith the land are among the sorriest that exist. The birmer’s traditional solitude has become exacerbated by the embarrassed thought that his work is anachronistic, in developed countries, or pathetic, in poor coun tries. In the f()rmer he struggles against productivity, taxes, markets, and surplus; in the latter against dust, the lack of tools, epidcmics, and shortages. Roth here and there the display of technological wealth overwhelms him. It would be obnoxious to indulge in idiotie praise of the peasantry when it is going downhill this way everywhere. vVill it die, or will it be transfùnned into a reserve labor force for advanced techniques? — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 759

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Culture is an ongoing production, not a fixed inheritance to be recovered — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 862; Farming a land long-colonized yet never renouncing its colonial ideology is paradoxical — Tavengwa Gwekwerere, Davie E. Mutasa, and Kudakwashe Chitofiri, Settlers, Rhodesians, and Supremacists:…, 82

Broader Connections

• Farming a land long-colonized yet never renouncing its colonial ideology is paradoxical #complicates (0.85) — Tavengwa Gwekwerere, Davie E. Mutasa, and Kudakwashe Chitofiri, Settlers, Rhodesians, and Supremacists, 82
• Culture is an ongoing production, not a fixed inheritance to be recovered #expands (0.75) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 862