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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But then that happened everywhere.
Like, everywhere to everything.
And then it was like, oh, wow, I don't feel like I'm a real human being in the world anymore.
I'm glad you picked up on that because there's a moment in the book toward the end when I encourage the reader to think of their sensory life, the objects of their senses, as friends, as characters.
And I really mean it.
That it's like having a relationship with everything that you encounter in the world.
And we're used to thinking like, oh, you can't have a relationship with like an inanimate object.
You can't have a relationship with it.
And if you have a relationship with like a natural object, maybe that's sort of reasonable because it's alive or at least potentially alive, like an oak tree.
But who has a relationship with the garbage truck or the tickets in their pocket?
Like a human style relationship.
Yeah.
But I think that's a really useful way of thinking about both the loss and the continued opportunity, because this happens all the time.
Even though we've lost the tickets, there's other things that take its place.
And that sense of just having, like, respect and interest and curiosity and most of all, acceptance, of just accepting that you are in the world with other things, other people too, other entities, and that that's an enormous miracle
That is something that's available to us no matter how much we've lost because we're still surrounded by so many sensory encounters all the time.
It is what a lot of people think.
I think we've mistaken smartphones for a bigger problem than maybe they are.
And it's certainly a problem.
Like the reason that you can get the QR code ticket is because of the smartphone and the app ecosystem.
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