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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And when you take them out of the dryer and they're warm, that warmth, you may put it against your face or feel it or smell it, and it's plush and it has texture.
And then as you're folding it, that's not just a chore for you, that's an opportunity for you to commune with your towels, to use that word.
And I think the way that ASMR creators model
that kind of openness is really admirable and something that we can learn from.
Yeah, I think that what we have to realize is that as much as these forces are dematerializing, they are also delivering gratification in its own way, or at least in some way.
Sure.
So just touching your phone is always gratifying, as we already discussed.
But if you're scrolling Instagram or TikTok, like often you're seeing, it's like I call it kind of vicarious gratification.
You're like watching other people do things.
And the things that they're doing are increasingly implausible.
And they're clearly just done for the algorithm.
You know, like those, like someone like spreading food all over their marble island in their kitchen or whatever.
They're not going to eat.
any of that.
They're not encouraging you to do the recipe.
They're just trying to maximize their algorithmic feed, right?
And so if you treat it, though, as like this, oh, well, like there's tomatoes, though.
I'm reminded that like tomato sauce exists.
And if that does at least a little bit of work of sort of orienting you marginally more toward the experience of pouring the jar of tomato sauce out, because you still have to eat and you're going to be cooking, even
You're going to be ordering food, and then you're scooping it out with the spoon that they deliver with it that maybe cracks and breaks.
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