Within the framework of artist Sidsel Meineche Hansen’s upcoming exhibition OVER at MINI/Goethe-Institut Curatorial Residencies Ludlow 38, writers and scholars Anson Rabinbach and Louis Chude-Sokei give individual presentations of their research. Referring to the Czech writer Karel Čapek’s introduction of the word ‘robota’, Robot Means Forced Labor delivers a critique of automation and artificial intelligence from the perspective of labor power and colonial history.