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Para-site: Dwelling Virally
"Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites."- George Bernard Shaw
"Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks."- Karl Marx
"…Walter Benjamin picks it up in his Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction in this heap somewhere, the authentic work of art is based in ritual he says, and wait Mr. Benjamin, got to get in there the romantic mid-eighteenth century aesthetic pleasure in the worship of art was the privilege of the few. I was saying, Mr. Huizinga, that the authentic work of art had its base in ritual, and mass reproduction freed it from this parasitical dependence. Ah, quite so Mr. Benjamin quite so, turn of the century religion was losing its steam and art came in as its substitute would you say?…"- William Gaddis, Agape agape
"The spirit was never anything but the parasite of man, the ringworm of his worthy body when the body was no more than an animalcule swimming around and having no desire about having to be worthy of existing."- Antonin Artaud
"The parasite parasites the limits that guarantee the purity of rules and of intentions…"- Jacques Derrida
"Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art."- Kenneth Tynan
"This is why poetic images are imagings in a distinctive sense: not mere phantasies and illusions, but imagings that are visible inclusions of the alien in the sight of the familiar."- Martin Heidegger
"In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman."- Oswald Spengler
"Jacked in, prosthetized, there is no structural distinction between body and machine, indeed between the mechanics of switching and the fluidity of immersion in one or the other mode."- David Wills
"There has always been, in the immunopathological activities of certain texts, a place for hygienic writing. Each thinking text, to the extent that it develops strategies of protection against outside interference or parasitism, is run by an immunological drive. Perhaps every text can be show to be phantasmically producing antibodies against the autoimmune community it has established within itself (a within that is constantly leaking, running an exscription machine, exposed precisely to a contaminating 'outside').- Avital Ronell
"Wherever life comes to stand, it comes to stand, so to speak, against the will of external nature, by means of a tearing away from her. External nature will therefore struggle against life; most external influences that one takes to be in furtherance of life are actually destructive of it, for example, the influence of air, which is actually a process of consumption- a constant attempt to subject living matter to chemical forces." Friedrich Schelling
"It should also be remembered that the parasite is by definition never simply external, never simply something that can be excluded from or kept outside of the body 'proper,' shut out from the 'familial' table or house. Parasitism takes place when the parasite (called thus by the owner, jealously defending his own, his oikos ) comes to live off the life of the body in which it resides- and when, reciprocally, the host incorporates the parasite to an extent, willy nilly offering it hospitality: providing it with a place. The parasite then 'takes place.' And, at bottom, whatever violently 'takes place' or occupies a site is always something of a parasite. Never quite taking place is thus part of its performance, of its success as an event, of its taking place." - Jacques Derrida
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