I had an opportunity to sit in on a seminar w/ Ian Bogost who gave a presentation about his research into platform studies. Below are my unedited notes from his presentation and the ensuing discussion.
materiality
software as materiality
a room on the screen
communities built for a sake of convenience
making [McLuhan] tetrad of natural occurring objects/phenomenon
inherent utility in making things
questions of things is more often a question of human ethics as opposed to question of being
causation is metaphorical
- -reality is a system of illusions that we interpret through metaphor
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