Isabelle makes a comment I very much appreciate about Bogost. It isn’t your normal scholarly writing. No, it isn’t. One of the very attractive things about it. Her use of our sugar example is good too in thinking about whatRead more…
Waving, Not Drowning
Meg takes the first step into the pool. Not yet a plunge. But some of us jump right in. Other’s spend ages slowly wading into the ocean. (And yes, this studio is a wave that, whether you like it orRead more…
Things, Feelings, Doco
This is one for a bit later, after we’ve got through this ontograph. This is a great constrained and reflective model for making a list like documentary: What Matters to You? The Emotional Value of Things.
Nerdicity
Carl makes good simple use of his blog as a reminder of what he’s doing when. Ai Vee (thanks for the food!) picked up the ‘nerd’ details comments. I used the example of Neil Young’s guitars. A guitar nerd caresRead more…
Weekly Tasks
In Friday’s class we made a matrix and everyone signed up for jobs across the rest of the semester. The jobs are providing afternoon tea, taking notes about the class, documenting the class, providing three reading prompts, and reflecting afterwardsRead more…
For Wednesday
From the Alien Phenomenology reading (Chapter One) please bring three quotes that: you enjoy trouble you intrigue you Note, this is not the first reading that was given out, but the second. The link above takes you to it. YourRead more…
What’s Next?
Michaela wonders what would matter to her lightbox? Light? Electricity? Would it mind the dark? Why? Is it a baby sun? (Just think of all our metaphors about light…) What matters and perhaps as importantly, what does it need? IsabelleRead more…
Flotsam
Micheala kill’s too many birds with the one stone! Don’t make a blog post a list of all that you had to do. Make each on its own post. The more things are small parts, the easier it is toRead more…
Shifted Centres
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.Read more…
What have our ontographs done?
Paris suggests we realise that the ‘thing’ is now many different things. That’s interesting. I guess they are aren’t they, if we think of a thing as what use we make of it (by its relation to us), then onceRead more…