Ian Bogost
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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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They shouldn't be looking at your phone and everything.
They scan it and it's on the wrong screen or something like that.
And then you don't remember what the seat was and you have to pull it up and you don't have all that, you know, kind of like memento of the show anymore to take with you.
So that's like one example of this phenomenon that I call dematerialization, where like the physical world that we used to inhabit without thinking about it at all just kind of went away.
And on the whole, it's like definitely more convenient, but then there was a loss associated with that convenience.
The thing that people might think of first with the tickets is that idea of a memory that they can hold in store.
And that's valuable.
And you don't have that anymore.
Totally.
But I am talking about that plus other things.
And for me, that sense of like you have two tickets because you're going with your spouse or your kid or whatever it is.
And just feeling them move between one another, holding two pieces of cardstock and kind of feeling their texture against one another as you kind of rub them together in your hand.
First of all, it just kind of gives you something to do with your hand while you're waiting in line.
But it's delightful to do that.
But I just started to realize as I thought more and more about this phenomenon of dematerialization and that sense of delight, which I call gratification, I felt like, wow,
What if that is actually much more important than we've given it credit for?
And the fact that it feels so small is both the reason that we haven't given it credit for feeling good, but also the power of it.
These like, this collection of little tiny sensory experiences that you've accrued or you used to accrue more over your day that were contributing to your overall sense of contentment.
And then as they fell away, you didn't feel like you were missing anything.
Like, who cares about not having a paper ticket?
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