epistemic murk

is the engagement of fictitious realities whose allegorical as well as literal effect is a betrayal of the realities of the colonized for the confirmation of colonial fantasies.


fictitious realities whose effect is 'a betrayal of native realities for the confirmation of colonial fantasies.(Taussig 1987:123)'Epistemic murk in the sense in which Taussig uses the expression can be briefly described as the engagement of fictitious realities whose allegorical as well as literal effect is 'a betrayal of Indian realities for the confirmation of colonial fantasies' (Taussig 1987:123) (net)


is an uncertainty about the real of things, a blurring of clear-cut boundaries between fiction, fact, performance, imagination, reality.

epistemic murk, n.All

epistemic murk