Insect media
Subtitle: an archaeology of animals and technology
By: Jussi Parikka
Series: Posthumanities -- v. 11
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press; Univ Of Minnesota Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780816667390; 9780816667406
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.         ) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : insects in the age of technology; title: Nineteenth-century insect technics : the uncanny affects of insects; title: Genesis of form: insect architecture and swarms; title: Technics of nature and temporality : Uexkøll's ethology; title: Metamorphosis, intensity, and devouring space : elements for an insect game theory; title: Intermezzo; title: Animal ensembles, robotic affects : bees, milieus, and individuation; title: Biomorphs and boids : swarming algorithms; title: Sexual selection in the biodigital: teknolust and the weird life of SRAs; title: Epilogue : insect media as an art of transmutation.