The NEURO TALK The making of: The general intellect took place on saturday afternoon, 28th of February 2004. Susanne Lang discussed with Antonio Conti (Posse), Dieter Schlönvoigt (Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung), Thorsten Schilling (Bundeszentrale politische Bildung), Jacqueline Stevens Stevens (University of California at Santa Barbara) and Ted Byfield (New School University) discussed the perspectives and challenges of what a debate about (political) education in postmodern times could be about and which questions need to be touched.

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Transcription of the debate


BY MATTEO PASQUINELLI


What is knowledge sharing? How does the knowledge economy function? Where is the general intellect at work? Take the cigarettes machine. The machine you see is the embodying of a scientific knowledge into hardware and software components, generations of engineering stratified for commercial use: it automatically manages fluxes of money and commodities, substitutes a human with a user-friendly interface, defends private property, functions on the basis of a minimal control and restocking routine.

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agoraXchange


agoraXchange is an online collaboration for imagining and building a massive multiplayer online game that offers a tangible political alternative to our current world order. This occurs on the site in the agoraXchange Game Design Room, a collaborative workspace where participants discuss, debate, and develop the game design.
agoraXchange see itself as project as the new media version of Thomas More’s Utopia. Written during the period of hereditary monarchies, his book is a fictional account of an egalitarian community without feudal privileges discovered by a seafaring adventurer. More uses the convention of documenting this community to make his ideas especially vivid, a goal to which we aspire in the medium of the online game.

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Transcription of the debate


Since many people had problems understanding the different introductory speeches, we transcribed (translation into German will follow) the opening round of the discussion.

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