ABSTRACT
This study poses a series of questions to unsettle the comfortable realm of neorealism by delving further into the political quiddities of everyday life. Too little of what is defined as Realpolitik can be accounted for convincingly through realist analysis. Something is missing in those .discourses on sovereignty: some emergent regularities, fixed practices, hybrid agencies, intelligent materials, embedded intelligence, and smart structures that are neither chaotic nor sovereign, but, instead, orderly and settled.
