ABSTRACT
This chapter investigates the geopolitical subjects of knowledge-based economization in which the skill problem appears like a society-wide "we concern". The key features of the geopolitical subject of the knowledge-based economy are conditioned by a set of key ideas about the fiercely competitive spatial and urban nature of the network society. The geopolitical subject of the knowledge-based economy refers to a particular collective agency. Particular skills and more general qualities together constitute the geopolitical subject inherent in knowledge-based economization. The rise of this new geopolitical subject thus makes the generic industrial labor of the "industrial state" disposable, or at least strategically less important than during high Fordism. In sum, the new geopolitical subject of the knowledge-based economy, the informational labor or "knowledge workers", brings together the relational and the territorial political spaces. The geopolitical subject of the knowledge-based economy is territorially disruptive in its nature.
