This is a list of quotes that were enjoyed from Chapter One of Ian Bogost’s Alien Phenomenology (think of it as a list of a list): Quentin Mellassoux has coined the term correlationism to described this view, one that holdsRead more…
Intrigue, They Said
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 atRead more…
What Troubled Me
A list of quotes from Bogost’s Alien Phenomenology, Chapter One, that caused troubles. From the perspective of cultural theory instead of philosophy, the OOO strain of speculative realism might bear some resemblance to more familiar arguments against anthropocentrism (such asRead more…
Strange Ontographs
Bogost’s carpenty meets strange ontography: I like Dominic Wilcox’s comment about quiet kids and what goes on in their heads). These are a form of ontography where you make machines that are lists because you bring together things in oddRead more…
Computers Do Die and Crash
Stranger things have happened. OK, grumpy post. Several ‘my computer died’ emails are arriving. I’ve explained several times how important it is that you you have a back up of key work that is not a copy on the sameRead more…
Not Kansas, Not University?
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…
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.
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…
A Visualisation of Cables
Not an ontography but an exploded view of the internet’s intercontinental cables, where they are, what they are, what it might mean: http://www.vox.com/2015/3/13/8204655/submarine-cables-internet
Wonder
Ian Bogost talks about the two senses of wonder. There is to wonder about something where it is like a puzzle or conundrum. Something to be solved. For us that becomes an invitation to account for it, explain it inRead more…