Quotes by Ian Bogost

Ian Bogost

A fun movie is something that is pleasurable without being demanding, you don’t have to think too hard.

Fun

Fun Movie

Thinking

Actually a lot of the supposedly serious and meaningful and worthwhile content on the podcast or on the television is no more or less meaningful than the clothes in the laundry basket or the dishes in the sink. It’s more a matter of the attention you’re willing to bring to them, where you’re willing to allow meaning and pleasure and the light to escape.

Clothes

Light

Meaningful

Any phrase that suggests play is this domain that’s the opposite of work, or the thing that you do when you’re done working, should trouble us. Because it means that play is always relegated to the exhaust of life. It’s the thing that you do after you do the important stuff, it’s what you do on your own time.

Mean

Opposites

Play

Be contemporary. Have impact. Strive for it. Be of the world. Move it. Be bold, don’t hold back. Then the moment you think you’ve been bold, be bolder. We are all alive today, ever so briefly here now, not then, not ago, not in some dreamworld of a hypothetical future. Whatever you do, you must make it contemporary. Make it matter now. You must give us a new path to tread, even if it carries the footfalls of old soles. You must not be immune to the weird urgency of today.

Impact

Moving

Thinking

Even when we tell kids to go play, what do the kids do? They come up with a set of constraints and structures. “Oh, we’re gonna build a fort out of clothes, and now that we’re in the fort we’re going to pretend that we’re prisoners,” or whatever.

Clothes

Kids

Play

Every now and then if you try, you can discover something new.

Now And Then

Something New

Trying

For me, what fun means is finding novelty in the suffocating familiarity of ordinary life.

Fun

Mean

Ordinary

Forcing your spouse to stop doing that bad habit that drives you crazy, or making your kid be better at math or at art or at swimming, or making your parents or your in-laws not be annoying in the way that they’re annoying, these are sometimes doomed goals.

Art

Crazy

Kids

Fun doesn’t have anything to do with pleasure, necessarily. I think this will be terrifically unintuitive for people.

Fun

People

Thinking

Fun has to do with habitual activities but then also terrifically novel or unusual ones. It works as a sort of strange milkshake of those concepts.

Fun

Strange

Unusual

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Fun Movie

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Quotes by Ian Bogost

Ian Bogost

A fun movie is something that is pleasurable without being demanding, you don’t have to think too hard.

Even when we tell kids to go play, what do the kids do? They come up with a set of constraints and structures. “Oh, we’re gonna build a fort out of clothes, and now that we’re in the fort we’re going to pretend that we’re prisoners,” or whatever.

Every now and then if you try, you can discover something new.

For me, what fun means is finding novelty in the suffocating familiarity of ordinary life.

Forcing your spouse to stop doing that bad habit that drives you crazy, or making your kid be better at math or at art or at swimming, or making your parents or your in-laws not be annoying in the way that they’re annoying, these are sometimes doomed goals.

Fun doesn’t have anything to do with pleasure, necessarily. I think this will be terrifically unintuitive for people.

Fun has to do with habitual activities but then also terrifically novel or unusual ones. It works as a sort of strange milkshake of those concepts.

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