Posts tagged ibogost

NASA Announces Moon Has Acquired Quibi in All-Rock Deal

— Ian Bogost (@ibogost) October 21, 2020

(via http://twitter.com/ibogost/status/1319027522932232197)

6yo: What are you doing?

Me: Just some editing.

6yo: What’s that?

Me: It’s like writing, but instead of making words you remove them.

6yo: …dewriting?

Me: Yes. Yes, that’s it exactly.

— Ian Bogost (@ibogost) October 16, 2020

(via http://twitter.com/ibogost/status/1316914661984448513)

“Best practices” is basically just corporate Foucault.

— Ian Bogost (@ibogost) October 7, 2020

(via http://twitter.com/ibogost/status/1313826074825023489)

I wrote about those orange wildfire skies turned grey in pictures. Cameras aren’t mirrors that capture the world; they are machines that make images out of it. https://t.co/MocVXbow7y

— Ian Bogost (@ibogost) September 11, 2020

(via http://twitter.com/ibogost/status/1304408946271232006)

By now, I hope you are familiar with my position on sandwich monism: The sooner you accept that nothing isn’t a sandwich, the sooner you will be free.

I am so at one with this now, I gape in disbelief at its apostates. What dark end is served by hot-dog exceptionalism?

— Ian Bogost (@ibogost) July 18, 2020

(via http://twitter.com/ibogost/status/1284529042121728001)

[source: ideology, personal experience]

— Ian Bogost (@ibogost) February 19, 2020

(via http://twitter.com/ibogost/status/1230233582364393477)

Protip: If you don’t use a password manager—or even if you do—you’ll always remember passwords that are expressions of personal disdain specifc to the venue into which you are logging in.

— Ian Bogost (@ibogost) December 19, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/ibogost/status/1207750485404475395)

I realize that calendars are arbitrary but all the decade-in-review stuff I’ve been reading has only strengthened my impression that the 2010s have no discernible, specific character whatsoever.

— Ian Bogost (@ibogost) December 19, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/ibogost/status/1207658876067336192)

Google Alerts has been broken for a long time, but every now and then it still emails me:

1) Pirated copies of one of my books, or

2) Someone saying something nasty about me on Mastodon, or

3) A munge of a scrape of something repurposed on a Chinese e-commerce scam site

— Ian Bogost (@ibogost) September 23, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/ibogost/status/1176263508767465472)

When you choose to drive a stick-shift or knit socks or use medium and pigment instead of digital images (or plate-film instead of CCDs) or any number of other things, you’re not just longing for some irretrievable past. You are using the materials of the past in the present.

— Ian Bogost (@ibogost) June 12, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/ibogost/status/1138806212819083264)

AI-created fine art could enliven galleries with visual aesthetics that humans couldn’t foresee, or it could become a self-contained, VC-funded machine-learning Thomas Kinkade automaton for hotel-room decor. Or it could do both.https://t.co/QoUAJK4t36

— Ian Bogost (@ibogost) March 6, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/ibogost/status/1103416245116911619)

Y'all thought I was kidding when I started talking about sandwich ontology, but nope. The secret about philosophy is that it works best when it’s a lampoon or burlesque. Things are most obviously true when you see them in caricature.

— Ian Bogost (@ibogost) August 12, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/ibogost/status/1028756384614154241)