Epistemic ignorance is actively produced by a refusal to notice

Evidence

The noun “ignorance” and the verb “to ignore” share a social and legal etymology, where definition of the former, “want of knowledge,” is predicated on the definition of the latter active, verbal form, “to refuse to take notice of.” How these two are joined, what political measures and psychic processes produce subjectivities that instantiate both, is a condition of imperial histories we would do well not to ignore. — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 1529

Categorization

• DEFINE: Etymology linking the state of ignorance to the active verb ‘to ignore’ as refusal to take notice.
• XREF: Connects to work on epistemic violence and colonial knowledge production elsewhere in colonial studies. — connects to: Corporate epistemic authority silences the people it constructs by branding them ignorant — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 221; Recognition of one’s own sensory ignorance is a condition of learning to observe — Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac: With Other…, 229
• QUESTION: What social/psychic mechanisms convert acts of ignoring into settled states of ignorance?