European knowledge about the Orient served domination rather than truth.
Evidence
Other writers such as Edward Said have linked issues of representation to the exercise of power. Said argues that “the Orient” was formulated in the minds of Europeans to possess characteristics that were based not in a search for truth but in a desire to dominate, and he was mostly concerned with how these stereotypes, which could serve not only to oppress but also to romanticize or patronize, were projected and reproduced through scholarship and culture. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 262
Categorization
- XREF: Said’s Orientalism as knowledge-for-domination parallels how platform data regimes produce knowledge that serves extraction. — connects to: Orient studies served Europe’s needs, not Asia’s reality; European knowledge of the Orient shifted from textual contemplation to administrative and military appropriation — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 522; Western scholarly discourse about the Orient was entangled with colonial domination — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 206 (+4 more)
Broader Connections
- Western scholarly discourse about the Orient was entangled with colonial domination
#corroborates(0.92) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 206 - Orient studies served Europe’s needs, not Asia’s reality
#corroborates(0.90) - European identity made knowledge of the Orient inseparable from rule over it.
#corroborates(0.90) — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 500 - Knowledge of the Orient constitutes authority and domination over it
#corroborates(0.90) — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 107 - For imperial discourse, knowledge of the Orient constitutes power over it
#corroborates(0.90) - Knowledge of the Orient served to extend European suzerainty over Asia
#corroborates(0.88) — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 659 - European knowledge of the Orient shifted from textual contemplation to administrative and military appropriation
#corroborates(0.80) — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 522