AgoraXChange, universal society of abundance.

Commissioned by Jacqueline Stevens and Natalie Bookchin Tate Online London, funded by the Foundation for Art, Science and Technology of Daniel Langlois, AgoraXChange is for the moment an online community that promises to discuss in a forum some thorny social issues, and in a second time to plan on the basis of dissertations occurred in the network, a multi-user game aimed at challenging the violence and injustice of the world political system. Through a slide titled The Saga of Nations, contained in the Theater section of the site, which recall the flow of images in the trilogy "Qatsi" by Godfrey Reggio, is just part of the consideration that the present social order, characterized by oppression and suffering, is governed by laws and institutions, neither natural nor inevitable, that deform the material and psychic life of man and hinder the development of creativity. As a result, participants in the game are encouraged to conceive of a new world order that favors creativity, empathy and freedom, based on four essential rules, namely: no to marriage, inheritance, private property and yes to choice of their own nationality. At the time of this first stage of the game is completed, a committee of artists, activists, and policy experts, drawing on the contributions received, will offer three distinct prototypes of the game, which will in turn be fed back to the participants so that they can vote and decide the final model and then begin to develop it. Therefore, AgoraXChange should become, according to the two authors, the new medium through which they can implement the ideas contained in the work "Utopia" by Thomas More, the main source of inspiration for the game. Do not miss also, in the Links section, a list of noteworthy with references to philosophers and thinkers and socialist utopians. It is inevitable at this point even turn his thoughts to "computopia", the information society of the twenty-first century, "universal society of abundance" and the character vaguely mystical, imagined by Yoneji Masuda which outlines the "way whose four billion Human beings are able to overcome the energy crisis and population explosion, to ban nuclear weapons and achieve total disarmament, to defeat illiteracy and put man in relation to God, and have done so without the constraint of power and law, but relying on the voluntary cooperation of all citizens. "