Book launch of "Insect Media: An Archaeology of Animals and Technology".
Date: Friday, March 4th Time: 19.00 Jussi Parikka will present the publication, offer some japanese fingerfood and wine General Public, Schönhauser Allee 167c, Berlin (U2 Senefelder Platz, northgate, walk on the left side 70m up) Book launch of "Insect Media: An Archaeology of Animals and Technology" Jussi Parikka will be in discussion with Shintaro Miyazaki about Insect Media Insect Media 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. Through close engagement with the pioneering work of insect ethologists, posthumanist philosophers, media theorists, and contemporary filmmakers and artists, Jussi Parikka provides a radical new perspective on the interconnection of biology and technology. "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 importantly, Insect Media reminds us of the non-human aspect of media, communication, intelligence. Insect Media is a book that is sure to create a buzz." - Eugene Thacker, author of After Life The book will be on sale at a special launch discount rate. INSECT MEDIA: An Archaeology of Animals and Technology By Jussi Parikka, University of Minnesota Press | 320 pages | 2010 Posthumanities Series, volume 11 ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Jussi Parikka is reader in media theory and history at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, and director of the Cultures of the Digital Economy (CODE) Institute. He is author of Digital Contagions: A Media Archaeology of Computer (2007) Viruses and coeditor of The Spam Book (2009) and Media Archaeology (forthcoming). During Spring 2011 he is Visiting Fellow at the Humboldt University, Berlin. More info at http://www.jussiparikka.com. _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
