Ian Bogost
speaker
439 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 7 Jul
Ian Bogost’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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We have to live...
in the present and find new ways of finding that contact with the world.
Because we are physical beings in the material world.
We live inside of our human bodies.
No matter how much you look at your phone or use your computer or whatever, you're still a physical being with a body in the world.
And your whole existence is about connecting your senses with all of the stuff around you.
and so you're missing out on a major part of your life um when you don't get to or don't choose to or don't just do those interactions uh with your senses in the world and they're still available they're just different than they used to be but yeah because we're not going back to cassettes that's right unlikely so what you know what do you if you feel that void how do you fill it
Yeah, so this small-scale interaction, I call it gratification, this sort of sensory enchantment of everyday life, that feeling of being sensorily connected through your sight and your sound and smell, anything that you do.
And if you kind of go through your life and you add these little bits and pieces of experience that are already happening to you, if you just kind of like accept them as a part of your day rather than rushing past them because you're trying to get something done and you're busy or you think they're indulgent or maybe you even think they're like sinful because they're sensory pleasures.
then you you build drip by drip um this little container of contentment that just makes your life better and you don't need to go back to do that because i still put on my shoes in the morning and walk outside and feel the gravel underneath my feet as i walk to my car
Or I feel the coldness of the steering wheel between my fingers or I feel the heat of the coffee mug in my hand or the taste of it as it goes down my throat or all of the other things that I encounter all the time.
They're always right there.
So even though there's been that loss, that dematerialization effect, you're still in this kind of surplus of sensory engagement.
It's always around you all the time.
It's easy actually, which sometimes makes it harder for people to see and to accept it because they think that being happy requires difficulty.
Like they have to work hard, otherwise it's a cheat or something.
So is this Stop and Smell the Roses?
In a way.
In a way, it is stop and smell the roses.
Or maybe even better, you're already smelling the roses.
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