Pierre Levy

Interview

• "The collective intelligence" (Paris - European IT Forum, 04/09/95)
• "The evolution of the concept of knowledge in the computer age" (Venice, 07/03/97)
• "Universality without Totality" (Milan, 20/11/97)
• "Two philosophers debate. Collective intelligence and connective intelligence: some reflections" (Florence - Mediartech, 27/03/98)

Biography

Pierre Lévy is a philosopher of contemporary virtual culture. He lives in Paris and teaches in the Department of Hypermedia, University of Paris-VIII. He trained as a researcher with Michel Serres and Cornelius Castoriadis, and continued in Montreal, specialising in hypertextual approaches. With Michel Authier, he developed a network concept known as "Arbres de connaissances" (Trees of Knowledge. Lévy is also interested in collective intelligence studied in an anthropological context and is one of today's leading media philosophers.

Bibliography

His publications include:

• Les Technologies de l'Intelligence, 1990.
• La Machine Universe, 1992.
• L'Intelligence Collective, 1994.