A categorical notion of interior operator is used in topology to define connectedness and disconnectedness with respect to an interior operator. A commutative diagram of Galois connections is used to show a relationship between these notions and Arhangelskii and Wiegandt’s notions of connectedness and disconnectedness with respect to a subclass of topological spaces. Examples are included.

Quaestiones Mathematicae 33(2010), 290–304