Alien Phenomenology, or, What It's Like to Be a Thing National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Fiction (1989) Baking is the only language

Baking is the only language the proud but vulnerable Julia has to communicate what is truly in her heart

and identity by one of our most electrifying writers

and love to flow through us without fail

Neither Jim Thompson nor his remains has ever been found

Secreted away in Sebastiana's once-grand manor high above the Breton sands

Alien Phenomenology, or, What It's Like to Be a Thing National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Fiction (1989) Baking is the only languageHumanity has sat at the center of philosophical thinking for too long. The recent advent of environmental philosophy and posthuman studies has widened our scope of inquiry to include ecosystems, animals, and artificial intelligence. Yet the vast majority of the stuff in our universe, and even in our lives, remains beyond serious philosophical concern. In Alien Phenomenology, or What Its Like to Be a Thing, Ian Bogost develops an object oriented