{"product_id":"rule-of-experts-egypt-techno-politics-modernity","title":"Rule of Experts: Egypt, Techno-Politics, Modernity","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBook info:\u003c\/strong\u003e Rule of Experts: Egypt, Techno-Politics, Modernity (Kindle, 423 pages) – University of California Press, 2002. Language: English.\u003c\/p\u003e\n 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.  ","brand":"Timothy Mitchell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46070162653418,"sku":"9780520232624","price":22.93,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/5301\/6298\/files\/71uEx8m5V9L._SY522.jpg?v=1781246235","url":"https:\/\/textbookme.store\/products\/rule-of-experts-egypt-techno-politics-modernity","provider":"TextbookMe","version":"1.0","type":"link"}