Beyond existing political taxonomies and religiosities, beyond the well-rehearsed techniques of war, citizenship, suffrage and diplomacy lie other means to political ingenuity. Often these outlying triggers and levers of change, not easily taxonomised or owned by either the Left or the Right, create a shift in sentiment, a cessation of violence or a turn in economic fortunes. Often spatial, these tools can evaporate in environments of righteousness, but operate well in impure ethical struggles. They may contribute an extrastatecraft, for discrepant characters like architects. Keller Easterling is an architect, urbanist and writer. Her new book Enduring Innocence: global architecture and its political masquerades (MIT, 2005) researches familiar spatial products that have landed in difficult or hyperbolic political situations around the world.