Boris Vormann & Christian Lammert 
Contours of the Illiberal State [PDF ebook] 
Governing Circulation in the Smart Economy

Contents
Preface 7
Prologue
Assembling the Smart Economy: A Typology of State Intervention Patterns 11
Boris Vormann and Christian Lammert
I. Infrastructural Statecraft: Logistics, Power and Circulation
Logistics of Settlement: Rethinking the Political Economic Geography of Canadian Colonial Expansion 39
Patrick De Dauw
Guaranteeing the Flow: How State Politics Shaped Global Logistics Systems 67
Christian Güse
Circulation Needs, State Selectivities and Technostructures: The Case of NAFTA 93
Tommaso Burdet
II. The Smart City: Grounding the Economy of the Future
The Myth of the Green City: Mapping the Uneven Geographies of E-Mobility 119
Tobias Kalt
Disrupting Regulation? State Capacities in the Digital Platform Economy 147
Jonas Pentzien
Fear and Loathing on the High Line: Notes from the Spatial Frontline of Spectacle Techno-Capitalism 177
Jeremy Williams
III. Labor, Technological Utopias and Emancipatory Potentials
Infrastructures of Digital Capitalism: On Automation and Labor 199
Astrid Zimmermann
A Second Gilded Age? Organized Labor in Changing Geographies of Work 219
Dave Braneck
Ceteris Paribus Ideology: The Green Economy, Technology and the Future of Work 245
Lasse Thiele
Epilogue
Prospects of a Rural Renaissance: Will the Smart Economy Compress Regional Disparities? 275
Julia Püschel
Notes on Contributors 291