Small Object Analysis
Small Object Analysis The clock strikes 8:30am and my dramatic writing class begins once again. I attempt to sit up straighter and stretch my sleepiness into wakefulness before I carelessly retrieve from my bag my notebook and writing utensil of choice: my Ticonderoga #2 Pencil. Surveying the rest of the class, it is curious that I am one of the few to yield such a device. Ballpoint pens, mechanical pencils and even laptops pervade the classroom and I almost believe the complexity of such objects causes my plain #2 pencil to shudder in its elementary composition. But #2 pencils don’t get nervous you might be thinking; or do they? Object Oriented Ontology (OOO) would like you to at least believe that objects matter beyond the uses we force upon them. As a leading OOO scholar, Ian Bogost states that “Objects do not exist just for us” (Bogost 9). OOO places objects and people on equal levels of importance ...