Ian Bogost

Welcome to Ordinary Extraordinary, our new eight-week newsletter series.

In a world regulated by devices, humanity has become disconnected from the physical world—from stick-shift cars to postcards.

Psychologists and economists have spent decades demoting gratification to a sin. They were wrong.

The jet was perhaps the pinnacle of American engineering excellence. Its retirement signals an end to an era of American culture—and ambition.

Except it’s a Ferrari

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.