Chapter 1 – Alien Phenomenology (Ian Bogost)

“To be a speculative realist, one must abandon the belief that human access sits at the centre of being, organising and regulating it like an ontological”

This passage intrigued me. Mostly because I had no idea what speculative realism is. Speculative realism opposes the former modern dogma that philosophy can speak only of the human-world relation rather than the world itself. I should take this on board and explore my media ‘thing’ as a speculative realist.

 

Chapter 2 – Ontography  (Ian Bogost)

“Ontographical cataloguing hones a virtue: the abandonment of anthropocentric narrative coherence in favour of worldly detail”

This passage relates directly to what we have been discussing in our studio about narrative and how things exist in their own world and don’t follow narrative like us humans do.

 

Unfortunately due to technical issues I was unable to access the following article for reading:

Frankham, Bettina Louise. “Complexity, Flux, and Webs of Connection.