ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that knowledge-based economization is constituted through a set of routinized geopolitical discourses which render the world thinkable and amenable to political programming in a particular manner. It suggests that the popular management knowledge developed by Michael Porter and his colleagues has contributed to the emergence of the geopolitical discourses through which the process of knowledge-based economization proceeds. The concept of cluster conveys a number of the qualities of the geopolitical discourses that in part constitute the process of knowledge-based economization. In the geopolitical discourses of the knowledge-based economy, the nation state is constituted ultimately as a facilitator of the profitability of capital and labor. The geopolitical discourses of the knowledge-based economy also touch upon the "hubization" of the territorial state. The virtual spaces of comparison are based on construing the global knowledge-based economy as a particular hierarchy of places.
