Rule of Experts Egypt, Techno-Politics, Modernity

Name: Rule of Experts Egypt, Techno-Politics, Modernity
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ISBN: 9780520232624

ISBN-10: 0520232623

ISBN-13: 9780520232624

Edition: 2003

Authors: 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 Expertsexamines 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…

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List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 11/18/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 376
Size: 6.02" wide x 8.94" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Note on Transliteration


Introduction



Economies of Truth



Can the Mosquito Speak?



Principles True in Every Country



The Character of Calculability



Peasant Studies



The Invention and Reinvention of the Peasant



Nobody Listens to a Poor Man



Heritage and Violence



Fixing the Economy



The Object of Development



The Market's Place



Dreamland


Notes


Select Bibliography


Index