ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses technologies as sociotechnical arrangements, layering the general theoretical framework. Unplugging artifacts serve as an heuristic approach to understanding technology as the concept encompassing the sociotechnical arrangements. The chapter argues that beyond the material artifacts that often embody technological arrangements, key concepts also serve to mold and control urban life. It highlights the construction of different layers of territorial manifestations of sociotechnical arrangements in cities, and the exercising of power upon space in its many material and immaterial forms, through the control of movements and fixities. The chapter focuses on the possible links between the informational space and the material conditions of territories, including digital surveillance and other dematerialized actions in global geopolitics to discuss the sociotechnical arrangements of a contemporary phenomenon that overlaps the physical materiality of bounded territories to the borderless fluidity of the so-called cyberspace. The stabilization process leads to one single technological solution, eliminating all others that might have come along the way.
