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Binders Full of Ideas: An interview with Ian Bogost

By Christopher Schaberg and Timothy Welsh Ian Bogost is among a group of contemporary posthumanist philosophers working in the realm of “object-oriented ontology” (OOO), which seeks to remove humans from the center of philosophical thought and value interactions between all objects—humans, as objects, included—equally. His recent book, Alien Phenomenology, Or What It’s Like to Be Binders Full of Ideas: An interview with Ian Bogost