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Author:

Parikka, Jussi, 1976-

Title:

Insect media : an archaeology of animals and technology / Jussi Parikka.

Publisher:

University of Minnesota Press,

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

xxxv, 281 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Swarm intelligence.
Insects--Mathematical models.--Mathematical models.
Bionics.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Series:

Posthumanities ; 11

ISBN:

0816667403 (pb : alk. paper)
9780816667406 (pb : alk. paper)
081666739X (hc : alk. paper)
9780816667390 (hc : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)617508611

LCCN:

2010035074

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)