{"id":2991,"date":"2015-09-05T00:59:45","date_gmt":"2015-09-05T00:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/?p=2991"},"modified":"2015-09-05T00:59:45","modified_gmt":"2015-09-05T00:59:45","slug":"the-phenomenology-of-the-world-without-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/05\/the-phenomenology-of-the-world-without-us\/","title":{"rendered":"The phenomenology of the world-without-us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Via this very interesting\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cosmicanthropology.wordpress.com\/2015\/09\/02\/lovecraftian-cyborgs-and-the-alien-aesthetic-part-1-cyborgs-of-the-abyss\/\">essay<\/a>\u00a0(the first\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cosmicanthropology.wordpress.com\/2015\/09\/03\/lovecraftian-cyborgs-and-the-alien-aesthetic-part-2-the-colours-out-of-space\/\">of<\/a>\u00a0three\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cosmicanthropology.wordpress.com\/2015\/09\/04\/lovecraftian-cyborgs-and-the-alien-aesthetic-part-3-ceti-the-aesthetics-of-aliens\/\">parts<\/a>) riffing off a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/alienaesthetics.space\/brucesterling\">talk<\/a> by Bruce Sterling on Alien Aesthetics. -egg]<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-48993 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/anigif_enhanced-18138-1406141261-6.gif?resize=625%2C259&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"anigif_enhanced-18138-1406141261-6\" width=\"625\" height=\"259\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Such questions may seem fanciful or mad, but why is it so strange to ponder the experience of objects, even while knowing objects don\u2019t really have \u201cexperiences\u201d as you or I do? Why is it so strange to be fascinated with all \u201cthings\u201d \u2013 from apple pies to microprocessors, tree frogs to alternating current \u2013 and to embrace that fascination not just as engineers but also as philosophers? What if engaging in this way holds important clues about a future in which the boundaries between things are fast dissolving?<\/p>\n<p>This kind of engagement will necessitate a new alliance between science and philosophy, one grounded in rational speculation. From a common Enlightenment origin, studies of human culture split. Science broke down the biological, physical and cosmological world into smaller and smaller bits in order to understand it. But philosophy concluded that reason could not explain the objects of experience but only describe experience itself. One extreme led to scientism, the belief that we can know the world completely by taking it apart; the other to relativism, the belief that we can never escape the mind, that the world conforms to thought, language and culture.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bogost.com\/writing\/aliens_but_definitely_not_as_w\/\">Ian Bogost<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via this very interesting\u00a0essay\u00a0(the first\u00a0of\u00a0three\u00a0parts) riffing off a recent talk by Bruce Sterling on Alien Aesthetics. -egg] Such questions may seem fanciful or mad, but why is it so strange to ponder the experience of objects, even while knowing objects don\u2019t really have \u201cexperiences\u201d as you or I do? Why is it so strange to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-Mf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2993,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2991\/revisions\/2993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}