Michael picks up our simple premise of wondering what happens when we aren’t the centre (and we certainly aren’t). It’s shifted his view of things, dramatically. Stefan sort of struggles with why semiotics isn’t a good tool for the ontograph. Semiotics privileges language, and meaning. It is hard not to be correlationist when we use semiotics as it is premised on language being the model of how we understand everything. But our bodies, feelings, even acts themselves fall outside of language. Words and sentences might describe, but are not the same thing as what our bodies does and feels. Or anything else for that matter.

Luke has two excellent quotes and observations from the Bogost. Speculative realism. New kid on the block. Not sure why it is called that but it is committed to realism (to be very crude, the world is real and independent of us). It might be ‘speculative’ because it has lots of ideas about what things are, all of which boil down to how we can’t know what they really are, so perhaps the method a) speculates about what things might be, and b) is a speculative method compared to some other philosophy? But I’m not sure.