Ian Bogost

The sound of a cosmic howl

The graduation speech is a ritual act, not an expressive one.

A ransomware attack took down a popular university-course-management software right in the middle of finals.

Fifteen years after Steve Jobs’s death, the company is a successful, if unexciting, powerhouse.

A few glowing roadside numerals set the national mood.

“Looksmaxxing” and its cousins are fake trends but real expressions of the internet’s intrinsic drive toward extremism.

Inventing a market is less important than perfecting one.