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Alien Phenomenology, Or What It�s Like To Be A Thing (2012)

by Ian Bogost(Favorite Author)

2.25 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0816678979 (ISBN13: 9780816678976)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Univ Of Minnesota Press

review 1: If you ever wanted to know why video game designers should not pretend to know about philosophy, you could read a few pages of this book. Otherwise, if you ever wanted to know what it would look like if that book were written by your computer geek pal from college who used to get into endless and pointless conversations about concepts like "reality," only to come up with stuff like "it's like real... ity, you know?" you could read a few pages of this book. Otherwise, if you ever wanted to know what it would be like to read a book that stuffed words like "weird" and "strange" and "bizarre" into every available space -- defined here as spaces not already occupied by name-dropping and sound bites -- then you could read a few pages of this book.
review 2: Every onc... moree in a while, I pick up a book with no expectations. Ian's book on OOO was more of a philosophy book to me, since I had no context prior to picking it up.. and I really enjoyed it. I have often thought how things related to us, impacts our perspective of those things. In this book we treat every object as it's own thing, valuable in its own right. And as such, it drives us to look at objects from a more alien perspective then just our own human view of the world. Highly recommend this book as a refreshing perspective to everyday objects. less

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