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Awesome

Work from Nora. Turning Bogost’s page into a spatial list. Now this would be a great way to build a script for another episode of the project. Just sayin’.

Simple Rigour

Something simple applied with rigour, and repeated. This is how you simply, and elegantly, build complex patterns and/or structures: https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/mar/29/finnish-facades-architecture-helsinki-in-pictures This is, in the language of our studio, a machine for noticing, recording, and making facades. What becomes elegant is… Continue Reading →

What, Again?

This seems to be becoming table tennis. The next iteration of the introductory paragraph I’ve been asked to comment on: In the novel ‘Alien Phenomenology,’ Ian Bogost discusses how lists of objects that lack ‘explication’ can draw ‘greater attentiveness’ towards… 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 →

Oh Groups, Oh Groups

Genevieve has found things relatively pain free so far. I wouldn’t underestimate the time we’ve put in to project plans and the map of your abilities as helping here. Taras’ group had trouble rolling but once going was good, and… Continue Reading →

Other Practices

Lydia and explagagantive. Great word. Jules and intellicoherensightful, personally I’d get it down to intellicoful, but that’s me. Ben and cohevitic (coherent, convincing, and poetic), Jialu and fleegical, (think it has a great sound to it). Joss wonders about posting… Continue Reading →

A Question Without Notice

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 →

Musings

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 →

It was a Tuesday

Cameo picks up on how it’s the artefact that creates the practitioner, not the other way round.

Ian, Ian, oh Ian

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 →

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