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).
发表于2024-05-06
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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 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.
这本比《殖民埃及》更从容
评分发展课粗读过,以后有机会要重读。
评分Can the mosquito speak?
评分这本比《殖民埃及》更从容
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。
Rule of Experts 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书