Ian Bogost - Object-Oriented Ontogeny
Just to assure everyone that the torch will be passed to the younger generation, behold the following. My seven year-old has been working on analogies in her schooling, and she recently took the opportunity to affirm the wonder of the world of objects. She reads: “Happy is to sad as ____ is to ____.”
She thinks. Then writes: “Happy is to sad as pig is to washing machine.”
Perhaps it’s not surprising, though: things are far more signal than noise to children, for whom the wonder of worldly repleteness has not yet been lost to the ennui of social practice.
