carbon democracy

modernity

rule of experts

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historian

political theorist

university professor

Columbia University

innovator in the field of

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Middle Eastern studies

American

political scientist

Rule of Experts

is the idea that the economy and democracy are interwoven with the making, transporting, and use of fossil fuels.

The economy and democracy, for Timothy Mitchell are interwoven with the production, movement, and end usage of fossil fuels. That inter-relationship is what the author calls carbon democracy... and the author considers that concept to be in decline.' (net) (Mitchell 2011)

is not a product of the west, but rather the west is a product of it.

Putting empire back into the history of Europe, we first suggested, enables us to reverse the narrative of modernization and see the West as the product of modernity. We might rephrase things again now and suggest that modernity is produced as the West. The 'now' of modernity, its culture of contemporaneity, the particular sense of simultaneity that is taken as modernity's experience, depends upon the representation of an homogenous space. (Mitchell 2000: 15)

is the result of a distinction performed between the modern and non-modern (as well as the west and non-west), and on the other, its enormous power of replication.

The production of modernity involves the staging of differences. But there are two registers of difference, one providing the modern with its characteristic indeterminacy and ambivalence and the other with its enormous power of replication. The modern occurs only by performing the distinction between the modern and the non-modern, the West and the non-West, each performance opening the possibility of what is figured as non-modern contaminating the modern, displacing it, or disrupting its authority. (MItchell 2000: 26)

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