Colonialism produced knowledge and truth, not just ideology, to subjugate.

Evidence

Although Said’s work has been critiqued for denying agency to the Other (the one who is the object of representation, as opposed to the Self who does the representing) and for somewhat reifying Eurocentrism by situating colonialism as a transhistorical and universalizing force, within postcolonial studies Said opened up avenues for thinking about the historical relationship between knowledge and power and about the specific ways in which colonialism sought to produce “truth” and knowledge, and not just ideology, in order to subjugate. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 886

Categorization

• XREF: This prefigures the book’s central ‘data colonialism’ argument that extraction works through knowledge production — connects to the reader’s surveillance/attention school readings. — connects to: Colonial knowledge was fragmented and confused, not crafted to deceive — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 1037; Colonial knowledge production was driven by uncertainty, not clarity; Competing colonial visions differed in how they cropped relevant knowledge (+2 more)
• DEFINE: Clarifies the central postcolonial stakes: knowledge vs. ideology as instruments of subjugation.

Broader Connections

• Colonial knowledge was fragmented and confused, not crafted to deceive #contradicts (0.85) — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 1037
• Colonial knowledge production was driven by uncertainty, not clarity #contradicts (0.85)
• Modern colonialism and genocide are structurally linked through knowledge #expands (0.80) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 50
• Colonial authority rested on incomplete knowledge and hierarchies of rumor, not omniscience #contradicts (0.80)
• Competing colonial visions differed in how they cropped relevant knowledge #corroborates (0.75)