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Alien phenomenology, or, What it's like to be a thing

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A bold new metaphysics that explores how all things—from atoms to green chiles, cotton to computers—interact with, perceive, and experience one another.

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.

In Alien 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 phenomenology or the philosophy of technology, Bogost's alien phenomenology takes for granted that all beings interact with, perceive, and experience one another. This experience, however, withdraws from human comprehension and only becomes accessible through a speculative philosophy based on metaphor.

Providing a new approach for understanding the experience of things as things. Bogost also calls on philosophers to rethink their craft. Drawing on his own experiences as a videogame designer, Bogost encourages professional thinkers to become makers as well, engineers who construct things as much as they think and write about them.

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Alien Phenomenology, or What It's Like to Be a Thing
2012, University of Minnesota Press
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Alien Phenomenology, or What It's Like to Be a Thing
2012, University of Minnesota Press
in English
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Alien phenomenology, or, What it's like to be a thing
2012, University of Minnesota Press
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Alien Phenomenology, or What It S Like to Be a Thing
2012, University of Minnesota Press
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Alien Phenomenology, or What It's Like to Be a Thing
2012, University of Minnesota Press
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Table of Contents

Alien phenomenology
Ontography
Metaphorism
Carpentry
Wonder.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.

Published in
Minneapolis
Series
Posthumanities -- 20
Other Titles
What it's like to be a thing

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
111
Library of Congress
BD331 .B5927 2012, BD331.B5927 2012

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL25197793M
ISBN 13
9780816678976, 9780816678983
LCCN
2012001202
OCLC/WorldCat
759910006

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