Jussi Parikka

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"Jussi Parikka teaches and writes on the cultural theory and history of new media. He has a PhD in Cultural History from the University of Turku, Finland and is Reader in Media Theory and History at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK.

Parikka has published a book on 'cultural theory in the age of digital machines' (Koneoppi, in Finnish) and his "Digital Contagions: A Media Archaeology of Computer Viruses" is published by Peter Lang, New York, Digital Formations-series (2007). Parikka has just finished a book on "Insect Media" (forthcoming from University of Minnesota Press), which focuses on the media theoretical and historical interconnections of biology and technology. In addition, the co-edited "The Spam Book: On Viruses, Spam, and Other Anomalies from the Dark Side of Digital Culture" (Hampton Press) is just out. Another co-edited volume "Media Archaeologies" (University of California Press) is forthcoming. His articles have been published eg in CTheory, Parallax, Postmodern Culture, Game Studies and Fibreculture, as well as in several Finnish journals and books.

His research interests include: biopolitics of network culture, neomaterialist cultural theory, transdisciplinary discourses and practices of knowledge, media anomalies, research/creative practice collaboration.":

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Website: http://www.jussiparikka.com