Insect media an archaeology of animals and technology /

Main Author: Parikka, Jussi, 1976-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2010.
Series:Posthumanities ; v. 11
Subjects:
Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10442225
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 : Uexk²ll'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.