This essay reflects on the rhythmic and performatic dimension of the archipelago in order to use it as a heuristic tool to understand the “intelligence” of the Smart City. Recognising the “smart ideology” which has brought to the actual “algorithmic governmentality”, and to the image of the network as keyword for describing any kind of relation in the present, the aim is to propose the idea of the archipelago, through Caribbean authors Antonio Benítez Rojo and Edouard Glissant, as an alternative orientation which gives place to a new understanding of collective intelligence.
