"In our artistic research BUZZ we are exploring the philosophical and epistemological potential of the term »parasite«.(..) One of the key motivations of our research is to explore our living conditions in an ubiquitous information environment which we understand as a parasitic ecology"
"Insect societies function in a decentralized, self-organized manner where each individual follows simple local rules and neither has much 'intelligence' nor has knowledge of the overall goal or pattern to be achieved. The overall goal and pattern are emergent properties that can not be attributed to any individual component and is therefore a collective arising out of parallel processing of distributed intelligence. Nobody is a parasite or everybody is a parasite."
https://www.academia.edu/12271276/BUZZ_PARASIT%C3%84RE_%C3%96KOLOGIEN
(from parasite manifest I)
Knowledge is no longer a scarce resource, but always ready at hand. Much more becomes possible, every student can potentially know everything, criticize everything, co-determine everything. The age of incompetence dies. Potentially, this means the end of individualism, the end of egoism. Participation and sharing everywhere. Parasitizing has reached a new size dimension: we parasitize the cloud, the cloud parasitizes us (my translation)http://www.anti-matter-plant.org/2015/01/parasitare-okologien-3/
http://www.metaspace.de/Dokumentation/Buzz
Daniel Fetzner, Martin Dornberg, Ephraim Wegner
