Rule of Experts: Egypt, Techno-Politics, Modernity - Couverture souple

Mitchell, Timothy

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0520232623 ISBN 13 : 9780520232624

Editeur : University of California Press, 2002

Synopsis

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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À propos de l?auteur

Timothy Mitchell is Professor, Department of Middle East and Asian Studies, at Columbia University. His books include Colonising Egypt and Carbon Democracy.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of California Press
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0520232623
• ISBN 13: 9780520232624
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 429
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