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EXTRASTATECRAFT

‘In the retinal afterglow is a soupy matrix of details and repeateble formulas that generate the most space in the world — what we might call infrastructure space’

Contemporary infrastructure space is the secret weapon of the most powerful people in the world precisely because it orchestrates activities that can remain unstated but are nevertheless consequential. Some of the most radical changes to the globalising world are being written, not in the language of law and diplomacy, but in these spatial, infrastructural technologies — often because market promotions or prevailing political ideologies lubricate their movement through the world’

'extrastatecraft — a portmanteau describing the often undisclosed activities outside of, in addition to and sometimes even in partnership with statecraft’

‘It is usually an isomorphic exurban enclave that, exempt from law, can easily banish the circumstances and protections common in richter forms of urbanity. Labor and environmental abuse can proceed unchecked nu political process. Moreover, given its popularity, the zone has become a self-perpetuating agent in the growth of extrastate urban space — space beyond the reach of state jurisdictions.