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Insect media [electronic resource] : an archaeology of animals and technology / Jussi Parikka.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Parikka, Jussi, 1976-
- Series:
- Posthumanities ; 11.
- Posthumanities ; v. 11
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Swarm intelligence.
- Insects--Behavior--Mathematical models.
- Insects.
- Bionics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (320 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Uncovering the insect logic that informs contemporary media technologies and the network society.
- 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 : Uexkøll'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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-4529-4707-4
- 0-8166-7524-4
- OCLC:
- 699513567
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