A list of quotes that intrigued us from chapter one of Bogost’s Alien Phenomenology.

• To proceed as a philosopher today demands the rejection of correlationism. To be a speculative realist, one must abandon the belief that human access sits at the center of being, organising and regulating it like an ontological watchmaker.’ pp. 5
• If ontology is the philosophical study of existence, then from Harman we can derive an object-orientated ontology (or OOO for short call it ‘triple O’ for style’s sake). OOO puts things at the center of being. We humans are elements, but not the sole elements, of philosophical interest. OOO contends that nothing has special status, but that everything exists equally.’ pp. 6
• Computers often do entail human experience and perception. The human operator views words and images rendered on a display, applies physical forces to a mouse, seats memory chips into motherboard sockets.’ pp. 9
• Instead, stuffs enjoy equal being no matter their size, scale, or order.
• The philosophical subject must cease to be limited to humans and things that influence humans. Instead it must become everything, full stop.
• All of these sorts of being exist simultaneously with, yet independently from, one another.
• humans are no longer monarchs of being, but instead among beings, entangled in beings, and implicated in other beings
• Something is always something else, too: a gear in another mechanism, a relation in another assembly, a part in another whole.
• The speculum of speculation is not a thin, flat plate of glass onto which a layer of molten aluminium has been vacuum-sprayed but a funhouse mirror made of hammered metal, whose distortions show us a perversion of a units sensibilities
• To be a speculative realist, one must abandon the belief that human access sits at the centre of being, organising and regulating it like an ontological”
• How did it come to this, an era in which things means ideas so often, and stuff so seldom?
• Objects are outside human consciousness, but their being exists only in human understanding