Spanish colonial incursions into highland Guatemala encountered a vibrant assemblage of entangled people, places, plants, and things. Colonists sought to marshall this assemblage into various accumulation projects through strategies of colonial control that re-ordered the landscape and its settlements, enabling new forms of surveillance, tracking, subject making, and exploitation of Native communities and laborers. This “grid” of control proved effective in many regards, particularly due to the preservation of the extant assemblage of infrastructure, social relations, and relations of production encountered. Rather than fully disrupt it, colonists accommodated this assemblage and sought to salvage value from its persistence. However, an ambivalence emerged from this dependence on the refracted assemblage of highland Guatemala; an assemblage that remained outside of colonists full control and made the colonial grid a thoroughly leaky one as people and things became or remained entangled in ways that subverted the goals of colonial control and afforded the persistence of Native communities and relations through, between and beyond the violence of colonization.

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“超越”劳动控制范围：危地马拉殖民地的救助，顽固和泄漏事件

西班牙入侵危地马拉的高地遇到了纠缠不清的人，地方，植物和事物的活跃组合。殖民者试图通过殖民控制策略重新整理景观及其定居点，以实现新的形式的监视，跟踪，主题制作以及对土著社区和劳工的剥削，从而将这种组合编组为各种积累项目。这种“网格”控制在许多方面都证明是有效的，特别是由于保留了现有的基础设施，社会关系和所遇到的生产关系。殖民者没有完全破坏它，而是接受了这种聚集，并试图从其持久性中挽救价值。然而，对危地马拉高地折射组合的这种依赖产生了矛盾。