sewing circuits » media theory https://sewingcircuits.peripheralfocus.net wearable art & media Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:52:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 Insect Media by Jussi Parrika https://sewingcircuits.peripheralfocus.net/2011/04/21/insect-media-by-jussi-parrika/ https://sewingcircuits.peripheralfocus.net/2011/04/21/insect-media-by-jussi-parrika/#comments Wed, 20 Apr 2011 17:07:33 +0000 Erik http://sewingcircuits.peripheralfocus.net/?p=196 Continue reading →]]> 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.

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