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

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Superior document:Posthumanities ; v. 11
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Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
Series:Posthumanities ; 11.
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Physical Description:xxxv, 281 p. :; ill.
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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 : Uexkll'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.