Insect media : an archaeology of animals and technology / Jussi Parikka.
Since the early nineteenth century, when entomologists first popularized the unique biological and behavioral characteristics of insects, technological innovators and theorists have proposed insects as templates for a wide range of technologies. In Insect Media, Jussi Parikka analyzes how insect for...
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| Series: | Posthumanities ;
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Table of 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.