A Bentham associate introduced the phrase ‘productive powers’ into Egyptian policy discourse

Evidence

The phrase ‘productive powers’ is found in ‘Report on Egypt and Candia’ by John Bowring, the friend of Jeremy Bentham, who served as an advisor to the Egyptian government. — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 634

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the book’s core argument that Benthamite methods of ordering and disciplining were exported to colonial Egypt — showing the intellectual lineage concretely. — connects to: Big Data’s total memory makes it exceed Bentham’s forgetful panopticon — Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New…, 142