Tag Bogost
“abandonment of anthropocentric narrative coherence in favour of worldly detail” (Bogost, pp. 41-2). What are the details of your sound? thing? phrase? part?
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 →
A draft introduction to the essay that passed my desk: In the journal ‘Alien Phenomenology,’ Ian Bogost discusses how lists of objects that lack ‘explication’ can draw ‘greater attentiveness’ towards them. Bogost explains how people naturally want to ‘join the… Continue Reading →
Ellie invents a word that I think ought exist, and a good list from chapter two. Nora has an epiphany, or at least some clarity. Jialu has a list of things about ontology and ontography and an interesting series of… Continue Reading →
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… Continue Reading →
Joss has notes on Object Orientated Ontology and notes that it puts things at the centre of being. Yeah, it does, but we’re less interested in OOO than in materialism more broadly. But in relation to the brief discussion from… Continue Reading →
Samuel notes that “Bogost proposes that in our current age, two system operations are dominant: ‘scientific naturalism’ and ‘social relativism’”. Scientific naturalism is the idea that there are small things that join together to make bigger things. Sort of like… Continue Reading →
How does the Mexico story relate to his philosophy? Correlationist view, humans and the world are inextricably linked, the one never existing without the other – is this because humans have to use consciousness to document? What is the purpose… 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 →