Notes on Ian Bogost’s Alien Phenomenology
About an hour ago, I finished Alien Phenomenology, Ian Bogost’s new book. What follows are my unfiltered (AKA barely fleshed out) responses. The second section is not going to make sense to you if you...
View ArticleMetaphysicians Inside a Star-Filled Sky
I wrote the following piece on a transatlantic flight yesterday after reading a big chunk of Bruno Latour’s (absolutely brilliant) Aramis, or the Love of Technology. I was inspired by a passage in the...
View ArticleThe Prince of Objects: Katamari and Ontology
Here’s the latest in a series of articles chronicling my unhealthy obsession with videogames and ontology. Just in case you thought I was back to blogging about normal stuff. Most videogames have...
View ArticleAlien Phenomenology and metaphorism
I wanted to write up an essay in response to the third chapter of Ian Bogost’s Alien Phenomenology, “Metaphorism.” Instead, I decided to do philosophical carpentry. I made this: Metaphor-a-Minute! It...
View ArticleHow I built Metaphor-a-Minute
I recently created a Twitter bot that tweets one randomly generated metaphor every two minutes. I’ve decided to make the source code available. Get the source on Github here. Read the README.md, as it...
View ArticleThe strange journey of Metaphor-a-Minute
In its short lifespan (less than a month!), my Metaphor-a-Minute Twitter bot hit two life-altering events. First, it had to be taught proper etiquette. Second, it was banned and unbanned by Twitter. I...
View ArticlePetunias and skittering lasers
My friend Darren Torpey pointed me to this excellent 45-minute episode of NPR’s On Point, What the Petunia Knows: The episode is an interview with Daniel Chamovitz, who has a new book called What a...
View ArticleAlien Phenomenology PoBC discussion: chapter 1
Earlier this year I started a book club with a few videogame/philosophy folks I know. Called Prince of Book Clubs or PoBC for short, its original purpose was a group reading of Graham Harman’s Prince...
View ArticleAlien Phenomenology PoBC discussion: chapters 2 and 3
This is a continuation of my Alien Phenomenology discussion summary posts (see here for a description of what these are). This one covers chapters 2 and 3 of AP. Participants here include me, Michel...
View ArticleNotes: Graham Harman, “Non-Relational Aesthetics,” CMU Oct 23 2012
Hi. This post contains my notes from Graham Harman’s talk on “non-relational aesthetics” given at the College of Fine Arts at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA on Oct 23, 2012. This is my...
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