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Ian BogostIan Bogost (LMC) was quoted in The Atlantic on the ritualistic qualities of reading, sorting, and pruning emails even while out of the office. Bogost suggests that email sorting is simply a default activity when there's nothing much else to do.
"Email pruning doesn’t enact work so much as it simulates work: It’s a ritual—like a secular, corporate rosary—which we perform in the hopes that it will somehow help us leave the domain of ineffectual work and re-enter the domain of gratifying productivity."
Ian Bogost is the Ivan Allen College Distinguished Chair in Media Studies in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication; holds a joint appointment in the Shool of Interactive Computing; and also holds an appointment in the Scheller College of Business. Bogost is also a contributing editor at The Atlantic.
