‘In other words, media can be approached as intensive capabilities that are constitutive of worlds. Also, animals live in and of media: their world is by definition formed of the constant interactional sensing, movement, and memory of their surroundings, much as the media environment in which we live is constituted of our ethological bodies interacting with bodies technological, political, and economic. Or, to put it a bit differently: we do not so much have media as we are media and of media; media are brains that contract forces of the cosmos, cast a plane over the chaos. Deleuze and Guattari wrote the seminal book What Is Philosophy? but someone should address the topic What Are Media? in a manner as extensive and original. What is the specific plane that media contracts, or is there even one? Do media work through elements from science, art, and philosophy, a crisscrossing of various modes of dealing with chaos? Furthermore, it is not clear that we can find the answer in books on philosophy, but perhaps we can find it in such works of fiction as the film Teknolust by Lynn Hershman-Leeson.’ Jussi Parikka