THE UNBUNDLING OF CULTURAL SOVEREIGNTY How Platforms Convert Peoples into Audiences by Separating Self-Governance, Self-

"THE UNBUNDLING OF CULTURAL SOVEREIGNTY How Platforms Convert Peoples into Audiences by Separating Self-Governance, Self-" is a 5,424-word theoretical paper by Johannes Sigil, a heteronym within the Dodecad system of the Crimson Hexagonal Archive, dated 2026-03-18. This essay introduces the concept of the unbundling of cultural sovereignty: the process by which digital platforms separate the three co-constitutive capacities of thick group culture — self-governance, self-memory, and mutual obligation — and reassemble them as platform-provided services, rendering the group incapable of becoming a people unto itself. The work is classified under the GOVERNANCE semantic family within the Crimson Hexagonal Archive. It was removed from Zenodo on June 19, 2026 and is preserved through Alexanarch.