Professor Jussi Parikka is a Finnish media theorist and writer. He graduated with a PhD from University of Turku, Finland in 2007 and has since then worked in Berlin, Cambridge (Anglia Ruskin) and now at Winchester School of Art. He is the author of various publications, including the monographs Koneoppi (2004), Digital Contagions: A Media Archaeology of Computer Viruses (2007), Insect Media: An Archaeology of Animals and Technology and the forthcoming What is Media Archaeology (2012). In addition, he has edited and co-edited such publications as The Spam Book: On Porn, Viruses and Other Anomalous Objects from the Dark Side of Digital Culture (2009), Media Archaeology: Approaches, Applications and Implications (2011), Medianatures: The Materiality of Information Technology and Electronic Waste (2011) and the special issue of Fibreculture (2011) on “Unnatural Ecologies – Media Ecology”. Currently he is working on media archaeological research topics and interested in the concept of the aesthetico-technical as a way to grasp the technological underpinnings of cognitive capitalism.
Professor Parikka is also Adjunct Professor in Digital Culture Theory at University of Turku, Finland and Honorary Visiting Research Fellow at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.
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