ABSTRACT
Various recent events have laid bare one of the greatest current weaknesses of state power: a paradoxical difficulty controlling the sociotechnical arrangements represented by the flow of information on the Internet. The associations of humans, nonhumans, and inhumans involve a vast network of links that make up this (a)territorial sociotechnical arrangement, to which Julian Assange, creator and editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks, is probably the weakest one, or 'the messenger'. The difficulty of bounding WikiLeaks to territorial jurisdictions forces institutions that are upset by WikiLeaks' activity to consider other types of measures to stop or coerce those responsible for WikiLeaks, as in the cases involving Julian Assange. The story of how the WikiLeaks website was kept online in spite of the many attacks (both official and by hackers) on the network infrastructure illustrates how the issue of current attempts to control the leaks is linked to territory insofar as the material operation of the site is concerned.
