“The alien isn’t in the Roswell military morgue, or in the galactic far reaches...it's everywhere,” wrote Ian Bogost, professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication and director of the Graduate Program in Digital Media, in his recent book Alien Phenomenology. “To put things at the center of a new metaphysics…requires us to admit that they do not exist just for us.” Source: Design Observer - August 2, 2012