As someone who finds bugs incredibly disgusting and scary, I am really interested in how large the scale of their uses is. I have always thought insects were just the bottom of the food chain and helped out here and there with decomposing or whatever, but after reading Jussi Parikka’s Nineteenth-Century Insect Technics my mind was opened to all of the possibilities that humans have based on what we have and will discover from our insect friends.
I find the study of movement in insects especially fascinating and idea provoking. While in this example scientist were photographing the movement of the wings of flying insects with light against a black background, I am curious what this would look like on a larger scale.
Do certain flying insects have patterns geographically?
Do they have synchronizations with other insects or within their population?
These smaller questions about the insects spark impact dialogues in my mind: from climate crisis to transportation and travel aerodynamics. Like the animal machine which was ‘designed to reproduce the insect’s wing movement,’ these opportunities are meant to make creators discover how to make it work without the animal.
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