Rhizome has a review of Jussi Parrika’s new book Insect Media, written by Jacob Gaboury. The book sounds very interesting, here’s a relevant quote from the review:
…the first half of Insect Media is devoted to uncovering this long history of a fascination with insects as technological animals in a pre-cybernetic moment.
The second half of the book examines the post-war period in which the development of cybernetics becomes the crucial mode of interfacing animal affects with technological systems…
Jussi Parikka http://jussiparikka.net/ is a writer and media theorist, working in Media Theory & History at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge [UK]. He is also Director of the Cultures of the Digital Economy (CoDE) research institute, and all around interesting person.