02523nam 22005414a 450 991082050740332120200520144314.00-520-92825-31-59734-880-510.1525/9780520928251(CKB)1000000000007007(EBL)224371(MiAaPQ)EBC224371(DE-B1597)520705(OCoLC)52861449(DE-B1597)9780520928251(EXLCZ)99100000000000700720020807d2002 ub 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierRule of experts Egypt, techno-politics, modernity /Timothy Mitchell1st ed.Berkeley University of California Pressc20021 online resource (429 p.)Parts of the text previously published.0-520-23261-5 0-520-23262-3 Includes bibliographical references (p. 381-401) and index.Para-sites of capitalism -- 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.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 institutionPeasantsEgyptHistory20th centuryEgyptEconomic policyEgyptEconomic conditions1919-1952EgyptEconomic conditions1952-EgyptPolitics and government20th centuryPeasantsHistory338.962Mitchell Timothy1955-658201MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910820507403321Rule of experts1548046UNINA