Insect media an archaeology of animals and technology /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Parikka, Jussi, 1976-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2010.
Series:Posthumanities ; 11.
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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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 : 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.