We were told that geo-politics is the great play of power across a solid continuous Euclid-ian surface. Cut apart by linear borders, the state system — a territori-ally based juridical formation — appeared to dominate all forms of sovereignty over individu-als and action. Later we began to imagine all solid national spaces were melting into a single smooth ocean of ever-present connectivity. We assumed borders were replaced with bureaucracies, issues with concepts, and that regulation was replaced with boundless flow.