Pierre MUSSO

Pierre Musso, philosopher, is emeritus Professor of Information Science and Communication at the University of Rennes II and Telecom Paris Tech School. He is the founder and former director of the Chair "Modelling Imaginary, Innovation and Creativity" that he created between these two academic institutions and with the support of four global industrial partners: Dassault Systèmes, PSA Peugeot-Citroën, Orange and Ubisoft. He is a member of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Analysis of Human and Social Processes, in the University of Rennes II and associate member of the laboratory UMR CNRS 5611 “Literature, ideology, representations, 18th-19th centuries” in Lyon. Prior to joining the University, he participated in or led research and forecasting services in the telecom sector, including the National Telecommunication Study Centre (CNET), the National Audio-visual Institute (INA) and the planning department (DATAR) in France. He was a member of the first board of Directors of France Telecom. He taught at the Sorbonne in the political sciences department for many years. During these years he defended his state thesis on "Symbolic operation of telecommunications and the Saint-Simonian philosophy”. He is the author of numerous books on Communication and the media, Networks and Territories. He has also written about Henri Saint-Simon and saint-simonianism. He co-directed the critical edition of the Complete Works of Henri Saint-Simon published at the PUF (2013) in the "Quadrige" collection. He has recently published La Religion Industrielle in the Poids et mesure du monde collection with Fayard publishing.