This seminar investigates the question of spatiality in political life. It starts by developing a conceptual frame, organized around key readings that address ontological and epistemological issues around the study of political space. It considers the ways that political thinking has often been defined by a relative inattention to the specific contours of space, geography, and place; and yet political power has frequently been involved in the production of forms of space amenable to its exercise. The second part of the course involves reading of a series of recent works that address specific configurations and questions of spatiality and politics, including: territoriality and state; voluminous and vertical sovereignty; war and terrain; urban geographies and (post)-modernity; global infrastructure and the politics of scale; and ancient political landscape. The course concludes with a final section on macro-spatial conceptions of the world: global, international, planetary, and their implications for studying specific research sites.