{"id":1104,"date":"2023-09-02T08:34:24","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T08:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cch.um6p.ma\/?page_id=1104"},"modified":"2026-06-05T15:10:50","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T15:10:50","slug":"la-sphere-semantique-pierre-levy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cch.um6p.ma\/?p=1104","title":{"rendered":"The Semantic Sphere by Pierre L\u00e9vy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Book review \/ online consultation<\/p>\n

Pierre L\u00e9vy, The Semantic Sphere 1: Computation, Cognition and Information Economy<\/em>, Wileys, 2011.<\/p>\n

Treatise on Semantics  
\n<\/strong>Principles of the Semantic Sphere<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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  1. \"\"According to its internal principle, the semantic sphere is <\/span>Leibnizian<\/span><\/i>, that is to say perspectivist and monadological (Monadology, \u00a7 56).<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. According to its external principle, the semantic sphere is <\/span>Deleuzian<\/span><\/i>, that is to say, in constant reterritorialization, rhizomatic. Fractal aggregation.<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. From the point of view of its verticality, the semantic sphere is <\/span>Avicennian<\/span><\/i>: active intellect, an angelic cloud of signs which is the sum of the in(di)visible monads.<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. From the point of view of its horizontality, the semantic sphere is <\/span>Teilhardian<\/span><\/i>: emerging noosphere, swarm intelligence. Collective property.<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. In its active principle, the semantic sphere produces the meaning of meaning through <\/span>calculation<\/span><\/i>: its reason is <\/span>algorithmic<\/span><\/i>.<\/span><\/li>\n
  6. In its passive principle, the semantic sphere proceeds from cognitive automation. A machinery scans the landscape of signs to territorialize mental landscapes, signposting them as thought signals.<\/span><\/li>\n
  7. The <\/span>spherical <\/span><\/i>form refers to the thinking and communicating membrane of humanity that covers the Earth with cables, fibers, antennas, and intervening satellites. Envelopment.<\/span><\/li>\n
  8. The <\/span>semantic <\/span><\/i>dimension is here restored to its original meaning of “signal technique”: a new symbolism is subsequently invented and transfigured into a computational signaling system. Meaning and power.<\/span><\/li>\n
  9. The <\/span>semantic <\/span><\/i>sphere is the evolutionary and emergent culmination of flashes occurring every microsecond within the Web membrane: these flashes are ideas infinitized by ubiquitous communication.<\/span><\/li>\n
  10. The semantic sphere embraces all the creative conversations buzzing within the Membrane; it organizes the details and motifs, ramifies series and sequences of signs so that the Complexity of meaning emerges.<\/span><\/li>\n
  11. The semantic sphere reveals the different scales of complexity of the thinking and communicating humanity: it refers to a meta-level, that is, a transcultural, transdisciplinary epistemology. Hypercomplexity both unifies and differentiates humanities within Humanity.<\/span><\/li>\n
  12. The semantic sphere is the main regime of meaning production of a collective, connective, cognitive intelligence. Meta-human understanding of what humans can signify on the info-techno-logical level.<\/span><\/li>\n
  13. This collective, connective, and cognitive intelligence escapes all control, all power, all authority by the massively parallel power of the Great Spirit of Humanity.<\/span><\/li>\n
  14. The information philosophy of the semantic sphere verifies the (meta)physical postulate of the (B)it, ‘It from Bit’, that is to say, that all of “that” derives from a thread or a snippet of information.<\/span><\/li>\n
  15. The semantic sphere is not a library, a stock, a reservoir; it is Flow.<\/span><\/li>\n
  16. The semantic sphere, an infinite conversation of billions of individuals, expresses, according to a new technology and a different theology of writing, the humanity of Humanity.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Reda Benkirane<\/span><\/p>\n

    <\/a>Pierre L\u00e9vy, The Semantic Sphere 1: Computation, Cognition and Information Economy<\/em>, Wileys, 2011.
    \n[in free access from the     author’s website<\/a>]\n

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