Alien Phenomenology, or What It's Like to Be a Thing

Name: Alien Phenomenology, or What It's Like to Be a Thing
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ISBN: 9780816678983

ISBN-10: 0816678987

ISBN-13: 9780816678983

Edition: 2012

Authors: Ian Bogost

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Humanity has sat at the center of philosophical thinking for too long. The recent advent of environmental philosophy and posthuman studies has widened our scope of inquiry to include ecosystems, animals, and artificial intelligence. Yet the vast majority of the stuff in our universe, and even in our lives, remains beyond serious philosophical concern.InAlien Phenomenology, or What It’s Like to Be a Thing, Ian Bogost develops an object-oriented ontology that puts things at the center of being—a philosophy in which nothing exists any more or less than anything else, in which humans are elements but not the sole or even primary elements of philosophical interest. And unlike experimental…

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List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication date: 3/19/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 168
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English

Ian Bogost is Ivan Allen College Distinguished Chair in Media Studies and Professor of Interactive Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology, a Founding Partner at Persuasive Games LLC, and the coauthor of Newsgames: Journalism at Play (MIT Press, 2010).




Alien Phenomenology



Ontography



Metaphorism



Carpentry



Wonder


Acknowledgments


Notes


Bibliography


Index