ABSTRACT
To appraise international relations through the perspectives of Marx on materiality is to begin to rethink world order after Modern Industry has had to take in hand the machine, its characteristic instrument of production, and to construct machines by machines. Transportational materiality relies upon non-places as spaces for motion. The logistical chains tying together sites, structures, and systems bind them with moving things, people, and ideas. In turn, the inescapability of transport also prompts its securitization. For better or worse, the 9/11 attacks in the US mark the advent of an apparently permanent state of warthe famous Long War or Global War on Terrorism (GWOT) in which the materiality of critical infrastructure and the policing of machinic internations become a very crucial challenge. Constant low-intensity assaults on critical infrastructures, in turn, actually bring a peace to end all peace, which spins up this permanent cycle of securitization and insecuritization of population and space.
