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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前三章過瞭兩遍,前兩章過瞭三遍。不愧是社科纔子,章章拎齣來都是有極其獨立的體係和內部邏輯,但整體完成度特彆高。讀一遍的時候不以為然(本科懂什麼),研究生和博士再讀的時候隻想說WTF,太聰明瞭。以及再次感嘆下我本科讀過這麼牛的書但我這個豬腦子完全不吸收啊。
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评分這本比《殖民埃及》更從容
评分社科纔子書,但備考期間時間有限,隻能囫圇吞棗不求甚解瞭。一手牽波蘭尼脫嵌傳統,一手接Callon經濟化議題,討論埃及19-20世紀經濟範疇(尤其是土地産權)的形成,如何既嵌入於尼羅河榖獨特的社會議程和治理需求,又作為獨特的力量塑造瞭現代埃及的地緣地位。一章一個主題,但不同主題之間又相互照應。文風真是草蛇灰綫,汪洋肆意……
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