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 an insect theory of media,
one that 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.
Deftly moving from the life sciences to digital technology, from
popular culture to avant-garde art and architecture, and from
philosophy to cybernetics and game theory, Parikka provides
innovative conceptual tools for exploring the phenomena of network
society and culture. Challenging anthropocentric approaches to
contemporary science and culture, "Insect Media" reveals the
possibilities that insects and other nonhuman animals offer for
rethinking media, the conflation of biology and technology, and our
understanding of, and interaction with, contemporary digital
culture.
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