Dr Jussi Parikka's fascinating new book uncovers the insect logic that informs contemporary media technologies and the network society. Out in December, 'Insect Media: An Archaeology of Animals and Technology' analyses 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.

Parikka develops an insect theory of media, one that conceptualises modern media as more than the products of individual human actors, social interests, or technological determinants. They are, rather, profoundly nonhuman phenomena that both draw on and mimic the alien lifeworlds of insects.

For more information on 'Insect Media' please visit the University of Minnesota Press website or contact Dr Jussi Parikka.

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