Today the movement of goods, money, data and people is being organized in increasingly non-transparent ways. This is a great threat to the international community. After all, our communal spirit and our shared structures arise from how we connect and communicate, how we work and make politics, and also how we flee and start anew.
All this is made possible by movement that takes place within a network of interdependencies. Such movement depends on sites of logistical control, which in turn are a prerequisite for preventing this network from breaking down. While societies cannot manage without this vital ingredient – let us provisionally call it the control of movement – one may rightly suspect that whoever now exerts this type of control will also programme our common future.
