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0-520-23261-5 |
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NVIC |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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Timothy Mitchell |
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Rule of Experts: |
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Egypt, Techno-Politics, Modernity |
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Berkeley: |
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University of California Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
2002 |
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xiii, 413 p., |
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23 cm |
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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?<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>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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Egypt |
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Politics |
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Economy |
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Capitalism |
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Books |