
Insect Media : An Archaeology of Animals and Technology.
Title:
Insect Media : An Archaeology of Animals and Technology.
Author:
Parikka, Jussi.
ISBN:
9780816675241
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (320 pages)
Series:
Posthumanities ; v.11
Posthumanities
Contents:
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: 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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
Abstract:
Uncovering the insect logic that informs contemporary media technologies and the network society.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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