materialist mangles

Month March 2017

Essays (To Avoid Panic)

Your submitted essays have been moved from the submission folder, so if you go to look for it and it is gone, don’t panic. And if you have not done so, then the submission declaration must be completed.

Awesome

Work from Nora. Turning Bogost’s page into a spatial list. Now this would be a great way to build a script for another episode of the project. Just sayin’.

Simple Rigour

Something simple applied with rigour, and repeated. This is how you simply, and elegantly, build complex patterns and/or structures: https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/mar/29/finnish-facades-architecture-helsinki-in-pictures This is, in the language of our studio, a machine for noticing, recording, and making facades. What becomes elegant is… Continue Reading →

Studio 10

In response to an invitation today’s studio became a writing studio. Intensive writing and editing, with me providing feedback on parts of drafts for anyone that sought feedback. This was to reiterate the earlier comments about changing how you consider… Continue Reading →

Essay Folder

In response to a request today inside the shared folder where our media sits there is now a folder called ESSAYS. This is, in an odd turn of events, where you can put your essay. Remember. Name on file. Name… Continue Reading →

What, Again?

This seems to be becoming table tennis. The next iteration of the introductory paragraph I’ve been asked to comment on: In the novel ‘Alien Phenomenology,’ Ian Bogost discusses how lists of objects that lack ‘explication’ can draw ‘greater attentiveness’ towards… Continue Reading →

Speaking of Alien Things

This is a great read. Note the things in there, that we tend to privilege what matters to us as the measure of other things. (I know of some meat eaters who refuse to eat calamari because they’re too smart… Continue Reading →

Our Machiens

This is from an essay I’m currently writing (yes, I have to write essays too). Thought it suitably relevant that might be helpful as a ‘thinkingtool’. Technical media are intentional recording machines that indifferently inscribe some part of the world…. Continue Reading →

Ian Bogost, Champion Of…

The media that we make with are machines and some in media studies describe them as technical media. They involve technics, technology, industry. A key feature of technical media is its indifferent sampling of the world. It doesn’t much care… Continue Reading →

Oh Groups, Oh Groups

Genevieve has found things relatively pain free so far. I wouldn’t underestimate the time we’ve put in to project plans and the map of your abilities as helping here. Taras’ group had trouble rolling but once going was good, and… Continue Reading →

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