As fissures emerge among local, translocal, and national space, territory as the ground of loyalty and national affect (what we should mean when we speak of national “soil”) is increasingly divorced from territory as the site of sovereignty and state control of civil society. The problem of jurisdiction and the problem of loyalty are increasingly disjunct. This does not bode well for the future of the nation-state in its classic form in which the two are imaged as coextensive and mutually supportive.