Ian Bogost 🍔
Professor at Washington University in St. Louis, Writer at The Atlantic.
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- In burger news, I consumed the In-N-Out onion-wrapped flying dutchman today (along with a protein-style double-double, as pictured). Listen, it's a good idea. But it's salty.
- Apparently Alphonso Lingis died this week. Lingis might have been most widely known as an English translator of Levinas, but his own work had a dense, rich intensity very different from his continental contemporaries. Philosophy that read like prose poetry. The 20th century is almost fully over.
- You know how Seattleites seem like they’re chill but are actually mean in the way people think New Yorkers are mean? In St. Louis, people seem like they’re Calvinist-style midwesterners but are actually mostly unreliable. At least in the south you just never expect someone to show up!
- Interesting two-front war on universities right now. On one side, the federal attack on research. On the other, the AI attack on learning. What’s left? The luxury coming-of-age service, for those who can afford it. The possibility of these three unbundling was unthinkable even 2 years ago. Now…
