Jussi Parikka

Insect Media

An Archaeology of Animals and Technology

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Produktbeschreibung

Uncovering the insect logic that informs contemporary media technologies and the network society.

Produktdetails

• Posthumanities
• Verlag: University of Minnesota Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 430g
• ISBN-13: 9780816667406
• ISBN-10: 0816667403
• Artikelnr.: 30212226

Autorenporträt

Jussi Parikka is reader in media theory and history at Anglia Ruskin University and the director of the Cultures of the Digital Economy (CoDE) research institute. He is the author of Digital Contagions: A Media Archaeology of Computer Viruses.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Insects in the Age of Technology
1. Nineteenth-Century Insect Technics: The Uncanny Affects of Insects
2. Genesis of Form: Insect Architecture and Swarms
3. Technics of Nature and Temporality: Von Uexküll's Ethology
4. Metamorphosis, Intensity, and Devouring Space: Elements for an Insect
Game Theory
Intermezzo
5. Animal Ensembles, Robotic Affects: Bees, Milieus, and Individuation
6. Biomorphs and Boids: Swarming Algorithms
7. Sexual Selection in the BioDigital: Teknolust and the Weird Life of SRAs
Epilogue: Insect Media as an Art of Transmutation
Notes
Index