Colonial conquest coupled physical seizure, cultural conversion, and communication infrastructure together

Evidence

The telegraph pole, the Christian cross, and the rifle arrived all at once for the Bororo people of Mato Grosso. The rifle of the soldier and the settler served to seize the Bororo’s land in the name of industry and progress, the cross “pacified” and “civilized” them, and the telegraph integrated them into the rest of the newly wired Brazilian republic in the mid-nineteenth century. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 21

Categorization

• XREF: The triad of rifle/cross/telegraph as colonial tech echoes themes from The Namesake and other postcolonial reading; and parallels the ‘complaints about immodesty’ article’s class-signaling angle on cultural invasion. — connects to: Communication technology gave colonial power both practicality and its public self-representation — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 415; Monologue rather than dialogue governed colonial encounters since the Hellenistic era; Communication infrastructures and racial inequity are co-constitutive across American history — , The Braided Reading EPUB: 5-Year…, 1160 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Communication technology gave colonial power both practicality and its public self-representation #expands (0.88) — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 415
• Communication infrastructures and racial inequity are co-constitutive across American history #expands (0.75) — , The Braided Reading EPUB, 1160
• Monologue rather than dialogue governed colonial encounters since the Hellenistic era #qualifies (0.70)