Read this in Negri & Hardts “Empires” (pdf, p. 208)
“The striated space of modernity constructed places that were
continually engaged in and founded on a dialectical play with their
outsides. The space of imperial sovereignty, in contrast, is smooth.
It might appear to be free of the binary divisions or striation of
modern boundaries, but really it is crisscrossed by so many fault
lines that it only appears as a continuous, uniform space. In this
sense, the clearly defined crisis of modernity gives way to an omni-
crisis in the imperial world. In this smooth space of Empire, there
is no place of power —it is both everywhere and nowhere. Empire
is an ou-topia, or really a non-place.”
