Parikka, Jussi, 1976-

Insect media an archaeology of animals and technology / [electronic resource] : Jussi Parikka. - Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2010. - xxxv, 281 p. : ill. - Posthumanities ; v. 11 . - Posthumanities ; 11. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.






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


Electronic books.

Q337.3 / .P36 2010

595.709