About the Site Map (Entries up to 2008)

The Site Map documents Peter Small’s work only up to 2008. Later developments and projects are linked directly through his biography.

The years following the dot-com crash of 1999–2001 were marked by rapid change and experimentation. Society faced the cataclysmic disruptions of the transition from the Industrial Age to the Information Age.

This site map points to books, notes, references, projects, and experiments developed during that period— attempts to understand and respond to these unprecedented shifts. The haphazardness and discontinuities across the website reflect those unsettled times, when conventional rationality offered few clear answers.

The new informational environment was dominated by uncertainty, competition, and risk. Solutions began to emerge not from linear logic, but from the esoteric domains of complexity theory, game theory, and chaos theory. Nature herself provided the ultimate guide: through self-organising systems and evolutionary strategies that embody the very attributes modern game theory describes.

The site map highlights areas of the archive where new ideas were added, as realisations occurred and explanations were attempted. Together, they chart the gradual development of concepts that continue to shape our understanding of how to organise and make sense of an ever-expanding web.