Transformation of Collective Intelligences by Noyer Jean-Max;

Author:Noyer, Jean-Max;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Published: 2016-10-25T12:33:10+00:00

Figure 2.1. Sketch by P. Levy, http://pierrelevyblog.com/

Beyond this scheme, P. Levy also expressed, very early in the history of the Internet, six principles to describe the cognitive and anthropotechnological stratum that was taking the shape, which he witnessed, of the Internet. The first one is the Principle of Metamorphosis.

“The hypertext network is in continuous construction and renegotiation. It can remain stable for a while but such a stability is itself the result of constant work. Its extensions, compositions and figures are a permanent stake for the involved actors, be they humans, microbes, X-rays, macromolecules …”

“In hypertexts, everything works by proximity, vicinity. How phenomena occur is a matter of topology and pathways. There is no homogeneous universal space in which forces of linkage and de-connection could freely roam. Everything that moves must either travel through the hypertext network as it is or modify it. The network is not situated in space, it is space”. The last principle is that of the mobility of centers: “The network doesn’t have any center. Or actually, it always has many centers that are like several ever-mobile beacons illuminating various nodes, ceaselessly leaping from node to node and leaving behind an infinite trail of iridescent radicles, rhizomes, thin word lines, images and lines of images or contexts, technical objects and their components …”.

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