When googling what ontography meant, I came to the understanding that it is a word to describe the existence and relationship between objects- but in ‘Alien Phenomenology” it was shown to be much more than that. In the beginning of chapter two I was supplied with many different meanings and understandings of ontography.

The ones that made most understanding to me and I think will help me with my essay in ‘Noticing’s two’ were:

• Harman “Ontography deals with the limited number of dynamics that can occur between all different sorts of objects” : my understanding of this relates to the idea of lists, comparing and contrasting the relationship between ‘things’.
• Susan Schulten: “ontography is a term to describe the human response to the physical landscape” : this definition is a lot more simpler than the others, I feel this is a different way to understand it is it expresses how humans specifically have relationships with objects 
• “Ontography involves the revelation of object relationships without necessarily offering clarification or description of any kind”: this definition to me makes me believe that ontography requires you to look at the bigger idea of objects i.e the unknown without having to give detail of what it actually is

One definition I really struggled with was :

• Michael Lynch: “ontography is a descriptive alternative to its grand theoretical counterpart”

I don’t quite understand the meaning of this and feel the relevance doesn’t quite fit in to the others understandings.