Machines, noise, and some media archaeology by jussi parikka. Dr jussi parikka is professor at the winchester school of art university of southampton and docent of digital culture theory at the university of turku. This cuttingedge text offers an introduction to the emerging field of media archaeology and analyses the innovative theoretical and artistic methodology used to excavate current media through its past. His music is influenced by his environment somehow it sounds like mother russia and scandinavia but in the end its his own style. Rendering life in biopolitical times nicole shukin 5 dorsality.
Media archaeology by erkki huhtamo overdrive rakuten. That is the premise of this pioneering and provocative book, which argues that to adequately understand contemporary media culture we must set out from material realities that precede media themselvesearths history, geological formations, minerals, and energy. Its not the anthropocene, its the white supremacy scene. Jussi parikka is professor in technological culture and aesthetics at winchester school of art university of southampton. Our encounters with websites, avatars, videos, mobile apps, discussion forums, gifs, and nonhuman intelligent agents allow us to experience sensations of connectivity, interest, desire, and attachmentas well as detachment, boredom, fear, and shame. Jussi parikka his work has addressed a wide range of topics contributing to a critical understanding of network culture, aesthetics and media archaeology of contemporary society. Machinology machines, noise, and some media archaeology. He is also visiting professor at famu at the academy of performing arts. At wsa, parikka is the founding codirector of amt, the archaeologies of media and technology research group. The eco media project developed new modes of thinking media ecology through a tracking of the intensities of nature. Considering extinction as a cultural, artistic, media and biological event, the contributorsboth prominent and unusual voices in current debates around the anthropoceneaddress the question. Library pdf rightslink rights and permissions read an excerpt buying options. Jussi parikka teaches and writes on the cultural theory and history of new media. Erik huhtamo and jussi parikka describe this variety of perspectives and range of debates as polylogues huhtamo and parikka, p.
Jussi parikka is the director of the cultures of the digital economy code institute. Parikka has a phd in cultural history from the university of turku, finland and in addition, he is docent of. There is a disturbing etymological puzzle underlying the title. A media archaeology of computer viruses 2nd updated edition, 2016 has given free access to the preface by sean cubitt and my introduction to the book. A media archeology of computer viruses, finnish media theorist jussi parikka argued that biological concepts can be applied to natural and technological systemssuch as biological and computer virusesbecause these systems are both based on interactions between bodies and environments that resonate together and infect each other 1. In 2005 he started his own label frozen north recordings which stands for a clear and unique sound out of tampere. An archaeology of animals and technology jussi parikka 10 cosmopolitics ii isabelle stengers 9. Edited by erkki huhtamo and jussi parikka, with contributions from.
Jussi parikkaa geology of media gaia hypothesis materialism. Jussi parikka is professor of technological culture and aesthetics at university of southamptons winchester school of art and docent in digital culture theory at the university of turku, finland. He is also docent of digital culture theory at the university of turku in finland. He is also docent in digital culture theory at the university of turku, finland, which is also his alma mater.
Until may 2011 parikka was the director of the cultures of the digital economy code research institute at anglia. Written with a steampunk attitude, what is media archaeology. This article focuses on the transpositions of media and nature through recent art projects such as harwood, wright and yokokojis eco media cross talk and garnet hertzs dead media lab. Jussi parikka is new media theorist, writer and reader in media and design at winchester school of art, university of southampton. After extinction looks at the future of humans and nonhumans, exploring how the scale of risk posed by extinction has changed in light of the accelerated networks of the twentyfirst century. He is docent in digital culture theory at university of turku, finland, and the author or co editor of several books. The advent of new media in common parlance, a loose conglomeration of phenomena such as the internet, digital television, interactive multimedia, virtual reality, mobile communication, and video games, has challenged many scholars to investigate the media culture of late modernity. The dcrlinterviewseries questions the term digital cultures is allencompassing and at the same time vague. Jussi parikka, university of southampton, winchester school of art, faculty member.
However, in this case the medium is understood in a very broad sense to. Medianatures and dirty matter jussi parikka in the midst of theoretical debates and traditions concerning materialism also new, realism speculative and objects objectoriented philosophy, one of the most important things to realize is that a lot of the discourses stem. Newly commissioned texts on the work of the artist agnieszka kurant by anselm frank, caroline a. Erkki huhtamo, jussi parikka editors this book introduces an archaeological approach to the study of media one that sifts through the evidence to learn how media were written about, used, designed, preserved, and sometimes discarded. Creative methodologies for remediation and creation focuses on some. Collective intelligence explores the artists work over the last ten years, examining her interdisciplinary practice, which focuses on collective intelligencea phenomenon observed in bacteria, animals, social movements, internet, cities. Connecting the social and the somatic john protevi 6 animal capital.
He is the author of various books on media archaeology, digital culture and technical media, including the monographs koneoppi 2004, digital contagions. It will be essential reading for anyone interested in the interdisciplinary ties between art, technology and media. Jussi parikka media history is millions, even billions, of years old. Rendering life in biopolitical times nicole shukin. Digital contagions draws from the cultural theories of gilles deleuze and felix guattari, friedrich kittler, and paul virilio, among others, and offers novel insights into historical media analysis. May 02, 2011 jussi parikka is the director of the cultures of the digital economy code institute. He is docent in digital culture theory at university of turku, finland, and the author or coeditor of several books. Edited by erkki huhtamo and jussi parikka, with contributions from internationally prominent scholars from europe, north america, and japan, the essays help us understand how the media that predate todays interactive, digital forms were in their time contested, adopted and embedded in the everyday. Visualizing planetary ecological crisis today joseph masco 5.
An archaeology of animals and technology jussi parikka 10 cosmopolitics ii isabelle stengers 9 cosmopolitics i isabelle stengers 8 what is posthumanism. Networked affect by ken hillis overdrive rakuten overdrive. Cary wolfe the posthumanities series editor and douglas armato the director of the university of minnesota press deserve deep thanks for their support of this project, as does steven shaviro, whose kind reading of the book was both helpful and inspiring. Machinology machines, noise, and some media archaeology by. The emerging field of media archaeology has opened up new avenues of research across fields and provided a way to challenge accepted historical layers of social and technical arrangements. He is also visiting professor at famu in prague and visiting professor, chair of media archaeology, at university of udine, italy. Jussi parikka critiques corporate and human desires as a geophysical force, analyzing the material side of the earth as essential for the existence of media and introducing the notion of an alternative deep time in which media live on in the layer of toxic waste we will leave behind as our geological legacy. Associate editor danielle kasprzak ably saw the book through production. Jussi parikkaa geology of media free ebook download as pdf file. His books include the media ecology trilogy digital contagions 2007 and 2016, the awardwinning insect media 2010 and most recently, a geology of media 2015. Parikka has written on media archaeology, contemporary media arts, network culture, and cultural theory. Studies mobile media, experimental media arts, and poststructuralism. Jussi parikka mobilizes an extensive array of source materials and intertwines them with an inventive new materialist cultural analysis. We owe a special thanks to jussi parikka, lori emerson, and darren wershler, who are currently writing a book on media and technology labs and have been in dialog with us about the many overlapping issues and materials.
Parikka has a phd in cultural history from the university of turku, finland and in addition, he is docent of digital culture theory at the university of turku, finland. Investigations of affective experiences that emerge in online settings that range from facebook discussion forums to smart classrooms. Insect media ca ry wolfe, ser ies editor 11 insect media. Until may 2011 parikka was the director of the cultures of the digital economy code research institute at anglia ruskin university and the founding co.
A geology of media screen and audiovisual research unit. The download can be accessed on the publishers website. In insect media, jussi parikka analyzes how insect forms of social organizationswarms, hives, webs, and distributed intelligencehave been used to structure modern media technologies and the network society, providing a radical new perspective on the interconnection of biology and technology. Article information, pdf download for operative media archaeology. Computing and digital media are essential to the way we work and live, and much has been said about their influence. He is also adjunct professor of digital culture theory at the university of turku in finland. Professor jussi parikka is a finnish media theorist and writer.
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