Humanity has sat at the center of philosophical thinking for too long.
Drawing on his own background 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..
Providing a new approach for understanding the experience of things as things, Bogost also calls on philosophers to rethink their craft.
This experience, however, withdraws from human comprehension and becomes accessible only through a speculative philosophy based on metaphor.
And unLike experimental Phenomenology or the philosophy of technology, Bogost\'s Alien Phenomenology takes for granted that all beings interact with and perceive one another.
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.
Yet the vast majority of the stuff in our universe, and even in our lives, remains beyond serious philosophical concern.
The recent advent of environmental philosophy and posthuman studies has widened our scope of inquiry to include ecosystems, animals, and artificial intelligence.
Humanity has sat at the center of philosophical thinking for too long
