Today’s class was at long last an eye-opening one, Adrian asking the class for questions on Bogost’s writing made his philosophical ramblings all the more tangible, a comforting experience. Groups, cool. Assignments, cool. Understanding, cool.

Below are some notes I took that needn’t worry you.

•  Object-Orientated-Ontology:
  • ontology: interested in what things are, what something is. Mainly focused on humans.
  • OOO: interested in separating humans from the centre.
    • things are the centre, not people.
  • premise: no more pyramids.
  • diamond analogy. many faces (facets), some recognised by others. Facets recognise facets on other things.
  • Infinite. Expands infinite in terms of what it can relate to.
  • Facets will come to our attention depending on different situations, eg. being in this room vs falling off a cliff (gravity, the ground, etc.)
• Flat ontology:
  • related to OOO.
  • Lists advocated as methodology. Lists are flat.
• Tiny ontology:
  • Unit Operations: like Lego bricks. Assembling a group of things into something, eg. students in a group = class = Unit Operation. Classes together = University.
  • Units don’t hold hierarchy.