Agnotology studies manufactured ignorance, distinct from necessarily unknowable things.

Evidence

144 Proctor and Scheibinger, Agnotology. It should be sharply distinguished from agnoiology, “the doctrine of things of which we are necessarily ignorant” (p. 27). — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 2147

Categorization

• DEFINE: Useful distinction between culturally produced ignorance (agnotology) and epistemological limits (agnoiology).
• XREF: Connects to the general theme of how knowledge is deliberately suppressed and to the reader’s interest in the thought collective’s control of information. — connects to: Racism produces the ignorance that is blamed for generating it — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1222; The Great Recession triggered a redoubling of deliberate ignorance production in economics — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 629; Willful ignorance is the deliberate avoidance of relevant information because the truth would be uncomfortable or would create pressure to act. — Willful blindness

Broader Connections

• Racism produces the ignorance that is blamed for generating it #expands (0.82) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1222
• The Great Recession triggered a redoubling of deliberate ignorance production in economics #corroborates (0.75) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 629