Bogost, Ian. “Alien Phenomenology”, Alien Phenomenology, or What It’s Like to Be a Thing. Minneapolis: University Press of Minnesota, 2012. (via RMIT account)
We started with Bogost’s second chapter. This raised questions, as it should. To help untangle these (but to be entangled is, for this studio, always a positive state) we are seeing where the book started from. This will open more questions than provide answers. These questions, what do we know, what don’t we know, of what we don’t know what matters? These will form the direction of the studio. In a nutshell, if we can’t form questions there isn’t anything (and so, it follows, what questions might this chapter be answering?) to do.
A tactic then might be to make a list of what questions you imagine this chapter answers. I would think there could be quite a few questions.
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‘to be entangled is…always a positive state’ – that’s a rly nice turn of phrase Adrian.