Index

Contents 

Acknowledgments         VII

Introduction: Insects in the Age of Technology     IX

1. Nineteenth-Century Insect Technics: The Uncanny Affects of Insects     1
2. Genesis of Form: Insect Architecture and Swarms     27
3. Technics of Nature and Temporality: Von Uexküll's Ethology     57
4. Metamorphosis, Intensity, and Devouring Space: Elements for an Insect Game Theory     85

Intermezzo     113

5. Animal Ensembles, Robotic Affects: Bees, Milieus, and Individuation     121
6. Biomorphs and Boids: Swarming Algorithms     145
7. Sexual Selection in the BioDigital: Teknolust and the Weird Life of SRAs     169

Epilogue: Insect Media as an Art of Transmutation     195

Notes     207

Index     271