Senior Lecturer, History and Theory of Digital Media, King’s College London
Animal Studies
Spatial Projections: SAGE command post featuring installations for the commanding officers, a projection screen at the front of the room displaying the overall aerial situation, LIFE, 1957; Schematic diagram of the command post and its projection apparatus, IBM, 1958
In this episode dedicated to animals and media, historian Etienne Benson discusses the electronic surveillance of wildlife and media theorist Jussi Parikka talks about insects as technology. We also chat about animal studies, surveillance, biopolitics, Deleuze & Guattari, and why tracking technology isn't so creepy.
Slavoj Žižek gives a lecture entitled “The Animal Doesn't Exist.” He also discusses Lacan, Derrida, Badiou and definitions of the human. This is the first in a two-part podcast on animal studies, as well as our first “bootleg” episode.
