Insect media : an archaeology of animals and technology / Jussi Parikka.

Author/creator Parikka, Jussi, 1976-
Format Book
Publication InfoMinneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2010.
Descriptionxxxv, 281 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Subjects

SeriesPosthumanities ; 11
Posthumanities 11. ^A759478
Contents Introduction : insects in the age of technology -- Nineteenth-century insect technics : the uncanny affects of insects -- Genesis of form: insect architecture and swarms -- Technics of nature and temporality : Uexküll's ethology -- Metamorphosis, intensity, and devouring space : elements for an insect game theory -- Intermezzo -- Animal ensembles, robotic affects : bees, milieus, and individuation -- Biomorphs and boids : swarming algorithms -- Sexual selection in the biodigital : teknolust and the weird life of SRAs -- Epilogue : insect media as an art of transmutation.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2010035074
ISBN9780816667390 (hc : alk. paper)
ISBN081666739X (hc : alk. paper)
ISBN9780816667406 (pb : alk. paper)
ISBN0816667403 (pb : alk. paper)

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