{"id":37206,"date":"2012-04-13T19:05:07","date_gmt":"2012-04-13T19:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/but-the-true-alien-might-be-unrecognizable-it\/"},"modified":"2012-04-13T19:05:07","modified_gmt":"2012-04-13T19:05:07","slug":"but-the-true-alien-might-be-unrecognizable-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/but-the-true-alien-might-be-unrecognizable-it\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>But the true alien might be unrecognizable; it might not have an intelligence akin to our intelligence, or even one we could recognize as intelligence. Rather than wondering if alien beings exist in the cosmos, let\u2019s assume that they are all around us, everywhere, at all scales. Everything is an alien to everything else. It is ultimately impossible for one thing to understand the experience of another, but we can speculate about the withdrawn, inner experience of things based on a combination of evidence \u2014 the exhaust they leave behind \u2014 and poetics\u2014the speculative work we do to characterize that experience.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2012\/04\/the-new-aesthetic-needs-to-get-weirder\/255838\/\">The New Aesthetic Needs to Get Weirder &#8211; Ian Bogost &#8211; Technology &#8211; The Atlantic<\/a><\/p>\n<p>That is a wonderfully pithy summation of what OOO is about.<\/p>\n<p>Remember how I was saying the other day that what the New Aesthetic needs is a shot of OOO? Well, Bogost is on the case.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/towerofsleep.tumblr.com\/\">towerofsleep<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But the true alien might be unrecognizable; it might not have an intelligence akin to our intelligence, or even one we could recognize as intelligence. Rather than wondering if alien beings exist in the cosmos, let\u2019s assume that they are all around us, everywhere, at all scales. Everything is an alien to everything else. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[1539],"class_list":["post-37206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","tag-emergent-digital-practices","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-9G6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}