In the aftermath of striation, the sea reimparts a kind of smooth space, occupied first by the “fleet in being,” then by the perpetual motion of the strategic submarine, which outflanks all gridding and invents a neonomadism in the service of a war machine still more disturbing than the States, which reconstitute it at the limit of their striations. The sea, then the air and the stratosphere, become smooth spaces again, but, in the strangest of reversals, it is for the purpose of controlling striated space more completely.
Deleuze, Gilles and Félix Guattari. A Thousand Plateaus. Capitalism and Schizophrenia [1980]. Translated by Brian Massumi [1987]. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007.