The difference between knowledge and truth.
For centuries knowledge has been used against the truth. Knowledge is the outer understanding that we have gathered about the world but it is not the truth. It’s a perception we have created from knowledge. Knowing something is the beginning of becoming a subject. Knowledge creates categories also. It is also based on the knowledge that gender is created. Ontologically they are not different. Epistemologically yes because knowledge about it is created. The differences are formulated or marked and traded in the social system. If we do get the validity of an idea we study it epistemologically and if we are trying to understand the essence we study it ontologically. The moment we create the category we have ‘epistemologically’ divided the purview. Ontologically we don’t create the differences we sublime the differences.
The basis of literary writing is the human world. In the Poststructuralists theory literary creations are not fictional they are real life. When we analyze literature from a poststructural point of view we have to believe characters are as real as life is. We then apply the theories. Deconstruction says that we create reality through language which is oppressed and fictional both. Realities created through language are although fictional, their meanings are always oppressive. The genesis of knowledge and its accessibility helps us in getting out of oppression. Why are there so many social/political/cultural conflicts? because the fictionality of knowledge is not understood. We assume it to be preestablished. One should not be against creating categories but what is their essence should be understood before they are formally created and the differences should not be powerful enough to draw people and dominate others.
When culture is practiced as nature and cultural differences used to create violence then we give birth to a power structure. Hitler believed in the supremacy of his race that led to world war II. This complex power of differences should be understood so that people realize that it is fictional.
Althusser contends that ideology has a material existence because “an ideology always exists in an apparatus, and its practice, or practices” (Lenin 112). Ideology always manifests itself through actions, which are “inserted into practices” (Lenin 114), for example, rituals, conventional behavior, and so on. Language has no meaning and language holds no truth. Language is good for usage purposes in a social structure instead it is used as a canonical knowledge system. We must understand the effect of oppression through language is fictional.
People are passionate about their truths. If we allow only one dominant discourse to be practiced then other utterances will cease to exist especially the marginalized discourse that will exist in continued fear. And it will also accumulate more power to the dominant ideology. We find ourselves in the center of this particular debate continuously because we ardently want to follow the language structures without any questions. Knowledge systems are changing and that is the strength of human society. Debunking the dominant discourse is relevant as it questions the so-called essence of canonical knowledge.
