Jussi Parikka is a writer, media theorist and professor in technological culture & aesthetics at Winchester School of Art at the University of Southampton.
Parikka’s current projects focus on contemporary media theory, as well as the genealogy and current uses of “laboratories” in (digital) humanities, design and media. He is also the author of various books on media archaeology, digital culture and technical media, including the monographs Koneoppi (2004), Digital Contagions: A Media Archaeology of Computer Viruses (2007, 2nd. Ed 2017), the award winning Insect Media: An Archaeology of Animals and Technology and What is Media Archaeology (2012).
He is also Docent of Digital Culture Theory at University of Turku, Finland and Honorary Visiting Fellow at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.