Figure/Ground’s latest interview is with Jussi Parikka. Dr. Parikka is
media theorist, writer and Reader in Media & Design at Winchester School of
Art (University of Southampton). He is Adjunct Professor (“docent”) of
Digital Culture Theory at the University of Turku, Finland. In addition, he
is a Senior Fellow at the Winchester Centre for Global Futures in Art
Design & Media. Parikka’s books include Koneoppi, (2004, in Finnish) and
Digital Contagions: A Media Archaeology of Computer Viruses is published
by Peter Lang, New York, Digital Formations-series (2007). The recently
published Insect Media: An Archaeology of Animals and Technology (2010)
focuses on the media theoretical and historical interconnections of biology
and technology and was published in the University of Minnesota Press
Posthumanities-series. The co-edited collection The Spam Book: On Viruses,
Porn, and Other Anomalies from the Dark Side of Digital Culture is
published by Hampton Press, and Media Archaeology: Approaches,
Applications, Implications came out with University of California Press
(2011). In addition, the edited collection Medianatures: The Materiality of
Information Technology and Electronic
Waste<http://www.livingbooksaboutlife.org/books/Medianatures> is
out in the new Living Books About Life-project (Open Humanities Press,
2011). His new book, What is Media Archaeology? (Polity, 2012), is just
out. Currently, Parikka is interested in the concept of the
aesthetico-technical as well as materiality of e-waste. His website and
blog: http://jussiparikka.net
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