early avant-garde created a media ecology based on and inspired by technologies. Contents The Press and the Parasites Poetic Media Effects Parasitic Media Parasitic Noise Ether Parasites Conclusion: Odradek and the Future of the Parasite Authors Arndt Niebisch is an assistant professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. His research focuses on the intersection of science, technology and literary production. He edited the scientific and technical writings of the Dadaist Raoul Hausmann and has published on authors such as Franz Kafka, Jules Verne, and Edgar Allen Poe.