| Description |
1 online resource (xxxv, 281 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Posthumanities ; 11 |
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Posthumanities ; 11.
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| 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: Uexküll'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 |
| Summary |
Since the early nineteenth century, when entomologists first popularized the unique biological and behavioral characteristics of insects, technological innovators and theorists have proposed insects as templates for a wide range of technologies. In Insect Media, Jussi Parikka 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, providing a radical new perspective on the interconnection of biology and technology. Through close engagement with the pioneering work of insect ethologists, including Jakob von Uexkull and Karl von Frisch, posthumanist philosophers, media theorists, and contemporary filmmakers and artists, Parikka develops and insect theory of media, one taht conceptualizes modern media as more than the products of individual human actors, social interests, or technological determinants. They are, rather, profoundly nonhuman phenomena that both draw on and mimic the alien lifeworlds of insects |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Swarm intelligence.
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Insects -- Behavior -- Mathematical models
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Bionics.
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Bionics
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Zoology -- Entomology.
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NATURE -- Animal Rights.
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Bionics
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Insects -- Behavior -- Mathematical models
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Swarm intelligence
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Insekter -- beteende -- matematiska modeller.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic book
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780816675241 |
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0816675244 |
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9781452947075 |
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1452947074 |
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