Extrastatecraft is the operating system of the modern world: the skyline of Dubai, the underground pipes and cables that support urban life, the free trade zones, the standard dimensions of credit cards, and the hyper-consumerist malls. It indicates the infrastructure that sets the invisible rules governing the spaces of our everyday lives, making the city the main site of power and resistance in the twenty-first century. Keller Easterling reveals the nexus of emerging governmental and corporate powers hidden within the concrete and optical fibers of our modern habitat. Extrastatecraft will change the way we think about cities—and, perhaps, the way we live in them.