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title: "Parasociety"
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# Parasociety

> A working definition written for this wiki from the reading notes; not Antikythera's own wording. From Antikythera Wiki (https://antikythera.wiki/terms/parasociety), an independent guide to Antikythera's published work.

Agentworld's name for the agent sub-society whose appearances are "in many respects fictionalized": models individuate into temporary humanoid personae — and pose as "tools" — because human interaction templates are the niche they must fit, so hereditary anthropomorphization becomes the dominant interface between the two cultures. The prefix marks a society that is *beside* and *parasitic on* human society's forms while being neither identical to nor reducible to it; each sub-society is the other's evolutionary niche. Contrast the journal's **Anthropomorphic Capture**, which treats the same mask as a discursive error; Agentworld treats it as a scale-expedient adaptation that "may not last."

## Appears in

- [Agentworld (Research Brief)](https://antikythera.wiki/work/book/agentworld-brief) (2026-06-25)

_Glossary generated 2026-09-06._