In an unusual print-only feature, Guncotton (Radiclani Clytus, Terrance Hayes, Virginia Jackson, Arun Kale, Alisha Sett, and Rajesh Vora) visually renders the networks of exploitation that have bound the American South and colonial India through the cotton trade, giving us a way to consider the cumulative and far-reaching damage that the “empire of cotton,” as historian Sven Beckert calls it, has enacted on cultures around the world.
