商品簡介
"With Insect Media Jussi Parikka offers a theory of media that challenges our traditional views of the natural and the artificial. Parikka not only understands insects through the lens of media and mediation, he also unearths an insect logic at the heart of our contemporary fascination with networks, swarming, and intelligent agents. Such a project requires the ability to interweave cultural theory with a deep understanding of the sciences-something for which Parikka is well suited. Most important, Insect Media reminds us of the nonhuman aspect of media, communication, intelligence. Insect Media is a book that is sure to create a buzz."
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. 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.
作者簡介
He is reader in media theory and history at Anglia Ruskin University and director of the Cultures of the Digital Economy Research Institute. He is author of Digital Contagions: A Media Archaeology of Computer Viruses and coeditor of The Spam Book and Media Archaeology.
