Luis Lobo-Guerrero is Professor of History and Theory of International Relations at the University of Groningen.Suvi Alt is Assistant Professor in International Relations at the University of Groningen. Maarten Meijer is a PhD student in International Relations at the University of Groningen.

• Introduction, Luis Lobo-Guerrero, Suvi Alt, and Maarten Meijer1. Novelty and the Creation of the New World in XVI C Spain, Luis Lobo-Guerrero 2. Faciality and the Digital Politics of Identity at Face Value, Carina Huessy3. After Ports were Linked: Paradoxes of Transpacific Connectivity in the Nineteenth Century, Sujin Eom 4. Zones at Sea and the Properties of Connectivity: (A)roundness, (Imm)unity and Liquidity, Barry J Ryan 5. From Tian Xia to Sovereignty: The Shift of the Chinese Imaginary of Connectivity in the Nineteenth Century, Ariel Shangguan 6. ‘Making up Germans’: Colonialism, Cartography and Imaginaries of ‘Germandom’, Zeynep Gülsah Çapan and Filipe dos Reis 7. Friedrich’s ‘Germany’: Landscape Painting as Imaginary and Experience of Connectivity, Benjamin Tallis 8. Cultivating Disconnection: Imaginaries of Rurality in the Catalan Pyrenees, Camila del Mármol 9. Organisms, Nodes and Networks, Paolo PalladinoConclusions, Luis Lobo-Guerrero, Suvi Alt, and Maarten Meijer Epilogue: O

Although new technologies have created an increasingly interconnected world, institutionalized academic disciplines, functioning within their traditional cartographic imaginaries, have had a trained incapacity to theorize the new dynamic spatiality constituting the contemporary global world. Manifesting a creative indisciplinarity, the collection of diverse well composed chapters in Imaginaries of Connectivity is an important intervention that alerts us to a world that has been under theorized.