Timothy Mitchell, Professor, Department of Middle East and Asian Studies, Columbia University, is the author of Colonising Egypt (California, 1991, with a new preface), and editor of Questions of Modernity (2000).
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.
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发展课粗读过,以后有机会要重读。
评分就个人而言,前三章最有趣味,也最细密,用了两周才看完。最后三章期望最高,写得却像无趣政论。算是历史学家里,对于经济学这一概念钻研最为有趣的一位了罢,可沿着他的脉络再走下去,就得读Foucault,Derrida,Simmel或Bruno等艰深怪物了,怕怕....先去海边晒太阳了。
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评分社科才子书,但备考期间时间有限,只能囫囵吞枣不求甚解了。一手牵波兰尼脱嵌传统,一手接Callon经济化议题,讨论埃及19-20世纪经济范畴(尤其是土地产权)的形成,如何既嵌入于尼罗河谷独特的社会议程和治理需求,又作为独特的力量塑造了现代埃及的地缘地位。一章一个主题,但不同主题之间又相互照应。文风真是草蛇灰线,汪洋肆意……
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