Code After V0.9

About This Work

Code After is a research programme examining how artificial intelligence reshapes the institutional structures of everyday life. Version 0.9

Why This Book Exists

For roughly three centuries in the Western legal‑bureaucratic tradition, sovereignty rested on a single architectural assumption: the State occupied

Chapter 1 The Structural Diagnosis

Part I The Structural Diagnosis Why Sovereignty No Longer Compiles: Governance after AI For much of the modern era, states

Chapter 2 The Rule-Execution Gap

Why Governance Fails at Implementation, Not Legislation A government can govern only what it can see — but sight alone does

Part II — THE GRAMMAR OF GOVERNANCE

Note Protocol Note — v0.9 Release: Part II integrates the material drafted as Chapters 3 and 4; the full versions

Section II Accounting as the Language of Measurement

Accounting is the part of the governance stack most readers never see — yet it is one of the layers that

Part III - The Architecture of the Global AI Stack

Note Protocol Note — v0.9 Release: Part III is presented in compressed form; full-length development of each component will

Part IV - The Governance Engine

Design, Propagation, and the Incorporation Heuristic Part III mapped a world organized around three incompatible governance stacks — internally coherent, externally

Part V - The Material Constitution of the AI Era

Compute, Capacity, and the Constitutional Limits of Governance Part IV mapped how rules travel and who shapes their movement. Part

Glossary

Terms are listed alphabetically. Cross-references appear in italics. Part of first significant appearance noted in parentheses. Term Definition First