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Timothy Mitchell, Rule of Experts, Egypt, Techno-politics, Modernity, Berkeley and Los Angeles, UC Press, 2002"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."Contents: "IntroductionI. Economies of Truth1. Can the Mosquito Speak?2. Principles True in Every Country3. The Character of CalculabilityII. Peasant Studies4. The Invention and Reinvention of the Peasant5. Nobody Listens to a Poor Man6. Heritage and ViolenceIII. Fixing the Economy7. The Object of Development8. The Market’s Place9. DreamlandNotesSelect Bibliography"Book Review: Michel Callon, "L'Égypte et les experts. Compte-rendu du Livre de Tim Mitchell, Rule of Experts", Gérer et comprendre, 86, Décembre 2006, p.83-97. URL: http://www.annales.org/gc/2006/gc86/egypte.pdf&#160;&#160;