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Parisi - Information Trading
A Parisi text that treats information trading as a key site where markets, signals, and distributed control converge.
Archive condition
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Core idea
The page argues that information does not merely represent market activity; it becomes one of the things traded and operationalized within it. Control emerges through circulation, valuation, and signal management.
By focusing on trading, the page joins virotechnical propagation to economic exchange. Information behaves like both commodity and vector, binding swarm logic to market systems.
That matters because it links the control section back to the archive's wider concern with capitalized abstraction. Distributed systems are shown here operating through financial as well as biological channels.
How to read this text
Read for the relationship between information and exchange before following the broader system claims.
Watch where signal circulation becomes economic process. That transition is what anchors the page in this section.
Representative extracts
Definition · paragraph 19
On the contrary, I argue the process of individuation has to be related to the endosymbiotic dynamics of parasitism and contagion, which are ecologies of information trading suggesting that a body, far from being completed, is suspended in a fi eld of virtual partialities.
Definition · paragraph 19
On the contrary, I argue the process of individuation has to be related to the endosymbiotic dynamics of parasitism and contagion, which are ecologies of information trading suggesting that a body, far from being completed, is suspended in a fi eld of virtual partialities. Endosymbiosis provides an understanding of transmission beyond sexual reproduction and beyond the gradual difference between the simple (bacterial, or unicellular) body and the complex (eukaryotic, or multicel-
Definition · paragraph 19
The gradual scale of complexity between the simple and the complex, the inorganic and the organic, death and life involves starting from small parts that organize into a whole— creating the apparatus of self-reproduction. On the contrary, I argue the process of individuation has to be related to the endosymbiotic dynamics of parasitism and contagion, which are ecologies of information trading suggesting that a body, far from being completed, is suspended in a fi eld of virtual partialities.
Definition · paragraph 13
36 Luciana Parisi nucleic and mitochondrial transmission, bacteria trade information in an open communication system bypassing genetic speciation. From this standpoint, it can be argued that Margulis’s notion of evolution does not map a tendency toward disorder but a heterogeneous process that envelops distinct modes of transmission assembling together by responding to selective pressures in the most unpredictable way.
History · paragraph 2
Copyright © 2004 by Duke University Press. t Information Trading and Symbiotic Micropolitics Luciana Parisi Physics and biology present us with reverse causalities that are without fi nality but testify nonetheless to an action of the future on the present, or of the present on the past, for example, the convergent wave and the anticipated potential, which imply an inversion of time.
Appears in sections
Control, Virotechnics, and Swarm Systems Primary section
Control processes, viral language, swarms, and abstract dynamics as a media-theoretical cluster.