A contribution to the edited volume "Oceans Rising, A Companion to 'Territorial Agency: Oceans in Transformation'", edited by Daniela Zyman and published with Sternberg & MIT Press. The included essay, Techniques of North: Sitting on Top of the World reworks and updates materials from the 2018 essay "Sitting on Top of the World", to highlight the arctic as a place of conflict and concern at the end of the Gulf Stream.