Rule Of Experts Egypt Techno-politics Modernity - Timothy Mitchell

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.