Published: 2015-12-23

Natural Technics: Swarming and Interspecies Communication

Ekaterina Nikitina Logo ORCID

Abstract

The article is devoted to the phenomenon of swarming and its expression in modern technologies and art. The main focus of this work is a philosophical comprehension and interpretation of the performance Mind-Controlled Cyborgroach created by the Moscow art-group “18 Apples.” The author discusses the phenomenon of the uncanny as a manifestation of entomophobia and technophobia, and she explores the ontological questions of human and animal being and compares categories of “natural” and “human” technics. The article also focuses on the problem of the Other in the context of the basic tasks of bioethics.

Citation rules

Nikitina, E. (2015). Natural Technics: Swarming and Interspecies Communication. Zoophilologica. Polish Journal of Animal Studies, (1), 149–163. Retrieved from https://journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/ZOOPHILOLOGICA/article/view/4811

Zoophilologica – T.1 (2015) – Zwierzęce/Animalis

No. 1 (2015)
Published: 2016-08-14


ISSN: 2719-2687
eISSN: 2451-3849
Ikona DOI 10.31261/ZOOPHILOLOGICA

Publisher
Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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