General intellect
General intellect, according to Karl Marx in his Grundrisse, became a crucial force of production. It is a combination of technological expertise and social intellect, or general social knowledge - increasing importance of machinery in social organization.
According to Marx, the development of the general intellect manifests in a capitalist society, in the control of the social life process. In other words, with the idea of the general intellect, Marx designates a radical change of the subsumption of labour to capital and indicates a third stage of the division of labour.
References
See also
Cognitive capitalism
External links
Paolo Virno, "General Intellect" in Lessico Postfordista, Milano: Feltrinelli, 2001.
Matteo Pasquinelli, Italian Operaismo and the Information Machine, Theory, Culture & Society, first published on February 2, 2014.
Tony Smith. The "General Intellect" in the Grundrisse and beyond.
