Pierre Lévy

Pierre Lévy was one of the speakers at the Collective Intelligence section of Doors 3 (Saturday morning).

Pierre Lévy, author, philosopher, Paris, lectures at the Hypermedia Department of the University of Paris-VIII, Saint-Denis. Following a mission for the French Ministry of Education under the auspices of Michel Serres, he developed a network system known as `Arbres de connaissances' (Trees of Knowledge) with Michel Authierl. He gives the project of collective intelligence a long-term anthropological context: `Collective intelligence is an intelligence which is distributed everywhere, continuously valorised, co-ordinated and mobilised in real-time; it is characterised by democracy in real-time, an inventive aesthetics and an economy of human qualities; it is multi-dimensional and multi-sensual, linked to the body and to the earth; it is concerned with re-materialisation, not de-materialisation.'

His publications include:

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