Techno Parasites "Bringing the Machinic Unconscious to Life"
Eric Hobijn and A.Broeckman
Techno-Parasites use whatever technical systems or apparatuses they can find as hosts, drawing on their output, their energy supplies and cycles to procreate and grow. A Techno-Parasite can be a simple or a complex system which is attentive and adapts to its host's structure. Its inventive struggle for survival has to cause technical disruptions. Techno-Parasites suck other machines empty, disrupt their circuits, effect power cuts, disable them, destroy them.
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The Techno-Parasites ecologise the networks. They make these networks more realistic by introducing a self-destructive element which VR technology didn't have so far. The Parasites have an important cultural function, and the virus police should not criminalise them, but acknowledge their conclusive role for the networks. Their subversiveness is as much part of the creation of the Net as is hacking. The Techno-Parasites are the Sunday of the Internet! The seventh day of Creation.
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The Techno-Parasites ecologise the networks. They make these networks more realistic by introducing a self-destructive element which VR technology didn't have so far. The Parasites have an important cultural function, and the virus police should not criminalise them, but acknowledge their conclusive role for the networks. Their subversiveness is as much part of the creation of the Net as is hacking. The Techno-Parasites are the Sunday of the Internet! The seventh day of Creation.
