For those interested this is my talk from the Canberra symposium I went to last week. It was about interactive documentary. Getting it ready, Easter and so on, means I’ve fallen behind around here. So here goes. Thomas has hisRead more…
An Unstudio
While the teacher was away, the students will play. They discussed where they are up to, then chose one quote, and discussed it. This is, so far, the best thing this studio has created. Chapeau those who where there. TheRead more…
What I Enjoyed
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…
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…
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…
Bogost 02
Bogost, Ian. “Alien Phenomenology”, Alien Phenomenology, or What It’s Like to Be a Thing. Minneapolis: University Press of Minnesota, 2012. (via RMIT account) We started with Bogost’s second chapter. This raised questions, as it should. To help untangle these (butRead more…
Bogost 01
Bogost, Ian. “Ontography: Revealing the Rich Variety of Being”, Alien Phenomenology, or What It’s Like to Be a Thing. Minneapolis: University Press of Minnesota, 2012. (via RMIT account) This is difficult reading, if only because it is not, at firstRead more…
Ontography, Round One
The reading to be done by Friday (yes, it is difficult) is chapter two of Ian Bogost’s Alien Phenomenology: Or What It’s Like to be a Thing. If you didn’t get a copy in class it is available as aRead more…