The Archipelago Seminar launched with inaugural session on “The State as Information Platform”

The Archipelago Seminar launched with inaugural session on “The State as Information Platform”

On 20 May 2026, I launched The Archipelago Seminar: Law, Information and the State, a recurring research seminar devoted to questions of law, information, digital governance and political theory.

The inaugural session, titled “The State as Information Platform: Law, Political Philosophy and Digital Governance”, introduced the central thesis of my recent open-access book Archipelago, and the information platform that is the state: that the state may be understood as an information platform.

The seminar discussed how this perspective may open up new ways of thinking about the state, the European Union and the digital world, as well as more specific legal and political concepts such as territory, sovereignty, rights, law, property and freedom.

The aim of the seminar series is to use the framework developed in Archipelago as a recurring point of departure for discussing law, institutions, information and contemporary digital governance.

The presentation slides are available on the book’s webpage under Talks and Media.