[spectre] Invitation, book launch event of 4th of March (Fr) "Insect Media: An Archaeology of Animals and Technology"

[Shintaro Miyazaki]

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 -  
ۥswarms, hives, webs, and distributed intelligence - ۥhave 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 - ۥsomething 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."
- ۥEugene 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.
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