Timothy Mitchell

عندما ذهب الزوار المصريون إلى المعارض العالمية في أوروبا في القرن التاسع عشر، واجهوا محاكاة للأسواق وللقصور الشرقية. ومعروضات من سلع العالم، وحشودا من المتفرجين الفضوليين. وكل "حقيقة" السلطة الامبراطورية والتباين الثقافي. وإذ يتخذ ميتشل من المعرض فكرة رئيسية وروايات المصريين نقطة انطلاق، يستكشف المناهج الخاصة للنظام وللحقيقة والتي تميز الغرب الحديث، وهو عالم يبدو كل شئ فيه منظما ومرتبا كما لو كان شيئا معروضا أمام مراقب زاعما تمثيل واقع خارجي ما، تجربة أخرى ما، حقيقة أوسع. ويفحص الكتاب سلطة وقع النظام والحقيقة هذا من خلال قراءة جديدة لأثر أوروبا الاستعماري على مصر فى القرن التاسع عشر ويسلط ميتشل الضوء على توازيات بين ممارسات كالتخطيط الحضري الاستعماري، وبناء القرى النموذجية، وإدخال التقنيات العسكرية الجديدة، وفتح عالم "الحريم" ومحاولة تأسيس السلطة السياسية على منهج انضباطي للتعليم المدرسي، ونشر الطرق الجديدة للكتابة وللاتصال. وهو يرى أن هذه الممارسات قد أدخلت إلى مصر وقع سلسلة من التعارضات -بين البنية و"الشئ"، بين المفهومي والمادي، بين العقل والجسم، بين النص و"الواقع"- زودت السلطة الاستعمارية بكل من آليتها وسلطانها واستنادا إلى اطلاع واسع على مصادر عربية أوربية، يستكشف كتاب "استعمار مصر" بعض الطرق النقدية التى شقها عمل ميشيل فوكوه وجاك ديريدا. ويعد الكتاب إحدى المحاولات القليلة لمد التفكيك الديريداوي إلى مجال التحليل التاريخي والسياسي. ولذا فإن الكتاب سوف يهم ليس فقط دراسى تاريخ وسياسة الشرق الأوسط، بل وجميع المهتمين بنقد تفكيكى للحداثة

استعمار مصر

"Timothy Mitchell begins with the history of coal power to tell a radical new story about the rise of democracy. Coal was a source of energy so open to disruption that oligarchies in the West became vulnerable for the first time to mass demands for democracy. In the mid-twentieth century, however, the development of cheap and abundant energy from oil, most notably from the Middle East, offered a means to reduce this vulnerability to democratic pressures. The abundance of oil made it possible for the first time in history to reorganize political life around the management of something now called ???the economy??? and the promise of its infinite growth. The politics of the West became dependent on an undemocratic Middle East."--Publisher website.

Political Power in the Age of Oil

Carbon Democracy

Extending deconstructive theory to historical and political analysis, Timothy Mitchell examines the peculiarity of Western conceptions of order and truth through a re-reading of Europe's colonial encounter with nineteenth-century Egypt.

With a New Preface

Colonising Egypt

Carbon Democracy provides a unique examination of the relationship between oil and democracy. Interweaving the history of energy, political analysis, and economic theory, Mitchell targets conventional wisdom regarding energy and governance. Emphasizing how oil and democracy have intermixed, he argues that while coal provided the impetus for mass democracy, the shift to oil drastically limited democratic possibility; above all, the ability to confront contemporary ecological crises.

دراستان حول التراث والحداثة

حكم الخبراء

ديمقراطية الكربون

Professor and Chair of the Department of Middle Eastern South Asian and African Studies Timothy Mitchell

Egypt, Techno-Politics, Modernity

Rule of Experts

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.

MIsIr'In Sömürgelestirilmesi

The Return of the State

Questions of Modernity

Modernity has always laid claim to universal certainty--which meant assigning a different and lesser significance to anything deemed purely local, non-Western, or lacking a universal expression. This book makes those very non-Western, non-universal elements the tools for fashioning a more complex, rigorous, and multifaceted understanding of how the modern comes about. Focusing on the making of modernity outside the West, eight leading anthropologists, historians, and political theorists explore the production of new forms of politics, sensibility, temporality, and selfhood in locations ranging from nineteenth-century Bengal to contemporary Morocco. Topics include the therapeutics of colonial medical practice, the multiple registers of popular film, television serials and their audiences, psychiatrists and their patients, the iconic figure of the young widow, and the emergence of new political forms beyond the grasp of civil society.

There are many famous people that have died. Such as: Singers, actors, dancers, authors, athletes, rappers etc. If you where ask when where they born or died. Most of us wouldn't know either. What is known is how great they where at their craft. Their graves have their date of birth and date of death. Now think what's between those two dates? It's a DASH, separating those two dates. It's a small but actually a big symbol of that person's life. We are all living in our DASH right now. We know our date of birth but don't know when we're going to depart this life. You to can have an effect on peoples life's, by becoming someone who inspires, motivate and help others. Just know how you live your life(Your DASH)now, will determine your legacy. Or how you will be remembered. Make the best of this life(DASH)you've been given and you to can leave something of meaning, that will live long after you have left this life. This book is written, to help guide you in your life(DASH). By helping you handle the many different situation you will face while living your life(DASH). Also to leave a lasting legacy

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