Ian, Ian, oh Ian

This is a useful version of ontography in relation to our projects, thanks Cameo. Samuel on Bogost’s chapter two, worrying about the human in amongst all this, one answer might be to try to adopt the point of view of something else. Taras struggles with what we describe as her ‘species exceptionalism‘ and Joss wants to bring it back to the essay – and no, it doesn’t mean looking at the environment because, as odd as it sounds, it doesn’t exist (if we mean environment as nature and different to, say, culture).

Cameo finds it a difficult read, which it is, and yes, we are not a centre. Similarly the observation about lists and our method in this studio is a good one. And Cameo was on a roll, here’s a nice list of what ontography might be. Lucas thinks about the nonhuman, and yes, these days we are paying a lot of attention to the nonhuman, while Ellie does an exploded view diagram of the essay question. Samuel has a potted summary of the first discussion of Bogost. Nora wonders why Bogost says “the alien is anything – and everything – to everything else”. That might be a good place to begin a conversation from.