The state is nothing else but the effect, the profile, the mobile shape of a perpetual statification( etatisation) or statifications, in the sense of incessant transactions which modify, or move, or drastically change, or insidiously shift sources of finance, modes of investment, decision..,making centers, forms and types of control, relationships between local powers, the central authority, and so on. In short, the state has no heart, as we well know; but not just in the sense that it has no feelings, either good or bad, but it has no heart in the sense that it has no interior. The state is nothing else but the mobile effect of a regime of multiple govemmentalities.

Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics, loc. 519