Pierre Lévy is a French philosopher of contemporary virtual culture. He lives in Paris and teaches in the Hypermedia Department at the University of Paris-VIII.

He was encouraged and trained by Michel Serres and Cornelius Castoriadis to become a researcher . He specialized in hypertextual approaches while teaching at the University of Ottawa, Canada.

After graduating, he focused on analyzing and explaining the interactions between the Internet and society. He developed a network concept, together with Michel Authier, known as Arbres de connaissances (Trees of Knowledge ).

Pierre Lévy and Collective Intelligence

Lévy also researches collective intelligence focusing on an context , and is one of the leading media philosophers today. His research focuses primarily on the area of ​​cybernetics. Because of this, he has become one of the leading scholars on the Internet, which, being a relatively recent information medium, does not yet have well-defined dimensions of impact and application.