How colonial epistemologies weaponize knowledge: Power’s recursive logic in epistemic subjugation and resistance

The idea that knowledge is inseparable from power traces back to the *Scientific Revolution*’s colonial project, where European scholars like Carl Linnaeus classified non-Western peoples as *deviant* to justify slavery and empire. Later, the *Social Darwinism* of the 19th century weaponized knowledge to pathologize Indigenous and racialized groups, creating the *scientific racism* that still underpins IQ tests and policing algorithms today. The article’s framing ignores how *knowledge regimes* (e.g., the *Berlin Conference*’s 1884 division of Africa) were designed to extract and control information as a tool of domination. Historical parallels like the *Tuskegee Syphilis Study* (1932–1972) reveal how medical knowledge became a weapon of state-sanctioned harm, not just an abstract power dynamic.