Egyptian rule shifted from issuing orders to managing public information and hidden authorship

Evidence

The gazette was no longer to be simply a written announcement of the government’s orders and instructions, precisely as government itself was no longer conceived as the mere issuing and enforcement of orders. Information and instructions were to become the method of politics, something ‘useful’ which the political process was to publish and make public. There was an entire realm of thought, of meaning to be made public (while the authors of this public knowledge were to become more hidden, to disguise themselves). — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 309 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Egyptian rulers escalated titles to signal autonomy then independence; A new bureaucratic regime collected and classified information about Egyptian subjects — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 650; Egyptian military discipline shifted from spectacle to bureaucratic surveillance, not humanitarianism — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 668 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Publicizing information itself became the method of modern political rule #expands (0.95) — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 309