Rule of Experts : Egypt, Techno-Politics, Modernity Paperback / softback
by Timothy Mitchell
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Can one explain the power of global capitalism without attributing to capital a logic and coherence it does not have?
Can one account for the powers of techno-science in terms that do not merely reproduce its own understanding of the world? "Rule of Experts" examines these questions through a series of interrelated essays focused on Egypt in the twentieth century.
These explore the way malaria, sugar cane, war, and nationalism interacted to produce the techno-politics of the modern Egyptian state; the forms of debt, discipline, and violence that founded the institution of private property; the methods of measurement, circulation, and exchange that produced the novel idea of a national 'economy', yet made its accurate representation impossible; the stereotypes and plagiarisms that created the scholarly image of the Egyptian peasant; and, the interaction of social logics, horticultural imperatives, powers of desire, and political forces that turned programs of economic reform in unanticipated directions.
Mitchell is a widely known political theorist and one of the most innovative writers on the Middle East. He provides a rich examination of the forms of reason, power, and expertise that characterize contemporary politics.
Together, these intellectually provocative essays will challenge a broad spectrum of readers to think harder, more critically, and more politically about history, power, and theory.
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- Pages:429 pages, 1 b-w photograph, 5 line illustrations
- Publisher:University of California Press
- Publication Date:18/11/2002
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- ISBN:9780520232624
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:429 pages, 1 b-w photograph, 5 line illustrations
- Publisher:University of California Press
- Publication Date:18/11/2002
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- ISBN:9780520232624