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Archipelago, and the information platform that is the state

A political philosophy based on information and its processing

Frontispiece for Archipelago: Panthalassa Informatica, showing an informational sea of islands, a trident-bearing figure, and a serpentine form

Archipelago, and the information platform that is the state

A political philosophy based on information and its processing

By Vagelis Papakonstantinou

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The Archipelago Wiki is a machine-readable and machine-actionable edition of the book. It contains the corpus (main text) and supporting material connected to the project. It intentionally differs from the print/PDF for technical reasons:

  • Fine‑grained paragraph numbering (e.g., §01.02.03.01)
  • All paragraphs carry short titles
  • Synopses/epigrams removed
  • A few notes referenced by the corpus are inlined into the corpus for better machine use

You may download and reuse the available source files freely with attribution (see Downloads).

The Ontology and Axioms pages are generated from the current corpus. They are machine assists — not normative — and may be regenerated as the text evolves.