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…
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…
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…
On flexible rooms and worlds
Monique on flexibility in thinking. (I’d extend this, what is it to be a flexibile thinker, what is it to think ‘flexibility’, what is it to be thought by flexibility?). Michaela begins to notice our anthropomorphism. Her phrase ‘exist inRead more…
Musings
Stefan begins to realise the question we are being posed is what is the thing, not what is my relationship to the thing. Paris also picks up the central theme that is not how do objects relate to me (whatRead more…
Thin, This Week
Carl has notes on noticing, anthropomorphism, phenomenology, and some lists. Ali picks up the comment in the discussion about ‘making without imposing’, followed by thinking about perception as an act that reduces what is to what is perceived. Michaela hasRead more…