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Insect media an archaeology of animals and technology

Title
Insect media [electronic resource] : an archaeology of animals and technology / Jussi Parikka.
Author
Parikka, Jussi, 1976-
Publication
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2010.

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Description
1 online resource (xxxv, 281 p.) : ill.
Series Statement
Posthumanities ; v. 11
Uniform Title
Insect media (Online)
Alternative Title
Insect media (Online)
Subject
  • Swarm intelligence
  • Insects > Behavior > mathematical models
  • Bionics
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-270) and index.
Access (note)
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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 : 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.
LCCN
2010035074
OCLC
ssj0000470325
Author
Parikka, Jussi, 1976-
Title
Insect media [electronic resource] : an archaeology of animals and technology / Jussi Parikka.
Imprint
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2010.
Series
Posthumanities ; v. 11
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-270) and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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Available from home with a valid library card
Available onsite at NYPL
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