Uncovering the insect logic that informs
contemporary media technologies and the network society
INSECT MEDIA: An Archaeology of Animals and Technology
By Jussi Parikka
University of Minnesota Press | 320 pages | 2010
ISBN 978-0-8166-6740-6 | paperback | $25.00
ISBN 978-0-8166-6739-0 | hardcover | $75.00
Posthumanities Series, volume 11
Insect Media analyzes how insect forms of social
organization?swarms, hives, webs, and
distributed intelligence?have been used to
structure modern media technologies and the
network society. Through close engagement with
the pioneering work of insect ethologists,
posthumanist philosophers, media theorists, and
contemporary filmmakers and artists, Jussi
Parikka provides a radical new perspective on
the interconnection of biology and technology.
PRAISE FOR INSECT MEDIA:
"With Insect Media Jussi Parikka offers a theory
of media that challenges our traditional views
of the natural and the artificial. Parikka not
only understands insects through the lens of
media and mediation, he also unearths an insect
logic at the heart of our contemporary
fascination with networks, swarming, and
intelligent agents. Such a project requires the
ability to interweave cultural theory with a
deep understanding of the sciences?something for
which Parikka is well-suited. Most importantly,
Insect Media reminds us of the non-human aspect
of media, communication, intelligence. Insect
Media is a book that is sure to create a buzz."
?Eugene Thacker, author of After Life
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Jussi Parikka is reader in media theory and
history at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge,
and director of the Cultures of the Digital
Economy (CODE) Institute. He is author of
Digital Contagions: A Media Archaeology of
Computer Viruses and coeditor of The Spam Book
and Media Archaeology (forthcoming).
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