This is the opening introductory chapter (PDF of John Law’s After Method: Mess In Social Science Research. It could be the manifesto for this semester. Law is a colleague of Bruno Latour (actor-network theory, mentioned in the Bogost readings andRead more…
Excitement
Notes from the Side
Isabelle has her three bits of exciting Frankham (Bettina’s a friend of mine, wait till I show her these…) Luke has his. Isabelle has a good potted summary of today, particularly like the observation that we’re making contemporary bestiaries, andRead more…
Dissection
Paris started dissecting some headphones for her ontograph.
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…
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…
Material Practices
What is an Apple watch? One answer is at http://atomicdelights.com/blog/a-glimpse-at-how-the-apple-watch-is-made
Sweet and Sour
Isabelle has a list (get it) of things we discussed around the sugar. What is significant between things does not equal what is significant to or for us. Carl has a good outline of an ontograph as a list ofRead 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…