materialist mangles

Month March 2017

Studio 7

My take aways: how to listen to something in itself and not impose us on it? our media are now machines, are computational media, and what matters is how to build protocols that allow for making our media recording machines… Continue Reading →

Stories

Yes, stories are time based, time dependent, and time conditional. Then again, all our technical (audiovisual) media are time dependent, the question then becomes whether this means they are inevitably stories, or can time based media do other things than… Continue Reading →

Love this Nod to Katniss

Touché, lovely nod to Katniss Everdeen by Isobel. Guess that makes me Donald Sutherland then?

Being, Been, Beans

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 →

Science, Social, Dolls, Cameras and Agency

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 →

Related News

A river in New Zealand now has the same legal rights as people. Objects, ontologies, being, the nonhuman. Something we haven’t yet touched on but most of this work refuses to accept binaries (human – nature for example) as in… Continue Reading →

Participation Reflection Round up

For Tuesday

Questions from Chapter Two of Bogost. (Think about what you have to do with the Bogost in essays to help focus what might matter.) Revisit group tasks to see where up to, what next, any issues arisen.

What Comes to Matter from Bogost?

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 →

What an Essay Does

As promised, read this about the history of the essay. This relates to my comments about essay writing, taking an idea for a walk, and exams. The same model popped up as we listed all that you needed to do… Continue Reading →

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