ABSTRACT
In March 2022, amidst Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine, the European Commission published a statement that went almost unnoticed. The Commission announced that the electricity grids of Ukraine and Moldova would be synchronized with the so-called “Grid of Continental Europe”—also known as the “Continental Synchronous Area.” Power and communication networks have carried bold promises, symbolic powers, and desires of modernization, but they have also been troublesome sources of insecurity and vulnerability. Recently, infrastructures have also become a central lens used to study the technopolitics of border and migration control. And indeed, borders are excellent examples of infrastructures of in/security. Infrastructures shape our ideas about political cultures, governmental activities, and global imaginaries. Infrastructures of in/security are vehicles for the promises and dreams of collective futures; they define “what is possible and potentially possible and are presented politically as a pathway to those potentials”.
