Every monument of botanical science is also a record of imperial brutality

Evidence

We can read Kincaid’s pained reflections here as echoing, environmentally, Walter Benjamin’s insistence that “there is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism.” — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 769

Categorization

• XREF: Bridges Nixon to Benjamin, and sharpens the polyad’s ‘law/institutions’ and ‘storytelling’ threads: institutions carry an implicit ideology that must be read against the grain.