Stories are a human created object. They pass information from one being to another and with this transfer of knowledge, they aim to broaden the perspectives of the respective recipients to attain a greater knowledge of the artefact they describe.

This notion is the problem I face when, in class, we aim to deemphasise the human and talk about agency in and of itself and how objects can have agency. By talking about it, aren’t we just reducing the agency of that object down to a humanised understanding of it & therefore not truely reflecting the object and all its connections in a true sense?

Bogost & my subsequent reading of Ingold are helping me to better understand the ways in which language is used as the medium and doesn’t influence the object itself – however I am still struggling to fully understand their notions & therefore fully grasping the subject.

I feel that by noticing the relationally of all things and combining these noticings with an Ingoldian/Bogostian understanding, I am slowly coming to understand the subject. slowly. very slowly.

BONESTORM

BRAINSTORM

In the extend hiatus between classes (having missed the last week due to assignment commitments) I had noted that my mind and relationship to the subject have been rather absent. Occupying the usual ‘free’ space was the stress and intensity of essay writing – 4000 words for 3 different subjects in 1 week is not conducive to an active and exploratory mind. However upon the completion of this (lets call it) week from hell, I began to reflect on the nature of my interactions with the essays and the readings that supported my claims. I had wondered if the academic writing the papers would ever have contemplated the Object Oriented Ontology of the journal they wrote & further, if it would have ever crossed their mind that it would be used by a student in Australia to formulate an argument.

This line of thinking compelled me to revisit the audio we created for Assignment II & the subsequent piece we received back from the German students. This revisitation of the audio inspired me to listen more to the piece, to hear the ontology of the artefacts in them and to imagine a scene in my mind of the relationally of the composers & listeners. This moment of reflection sparked a creative period that comprised of storyboarding the video that would accompany the German audio piece.

MATERIALITY

If two forces come into interaction – either physically or otherwise – the resultant energy transfer will materialise and manifest into something other. Placing this way of viewing into the assessments that are being shared between our class and our sister class in offenburg enables a different reading of the process, a different ontology to be formatted. By continuing this process further down the line and noticing the noticings will result in a greater deemphasis on human practice and result in truer pieces in the future.