The slave ship functioned simultaneously as a communication medium and an inequity machine
Evidence
Gilroy’s foundational text binds the Black Atlantic as both communicative and political formation. The pillars synthesize in the figure of the ship as communication medium and inequity machine. — , The Braided Reading EPUB, 3154
Categorization
- XREF: Echoes the earlier treatment of the slave ship in surveillance genealogy from Browne; links to the Black Atlantic as communication networks. — connects to: Symbolic systems do double duty as communication and as instruments of domination.
- SEED: Angle: infrastructure as both message-carrier and brutality-instrument — the ship as the ur-case for all transport/communication technologies.