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Ian Bogost

@ibogost.com

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Read my new book, The Small Stuff: How to Lead a More Gratifying Life: gratifying.life Barbara and David Thomas Distinguished Professor at WashU; Staff writer at The Atlantic; author of 11 books. bogost.com

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Ian Bogost @ibogost.com · 29/09/2026

Midwest is wild y'all.

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Ian Bogost @ibogost.com · 26/09/2026

Humanities prime lens

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Ian Bogost @ibogost.com · 23/09/2026

M.U.S.C.L.E.

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Ian Bogost @ibogost.com · 22/09/2026

The 2027 US News college rankings are out. College rankings are deeply cursed, but here's an uncommon complaint about them: Too many schools are ranked at the same rung in a "tie" that seems fake, as if designed to keep the schools hooked. If you're gonna rank colleges arbitrarily, do it.

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Ian Bogost @ibogost.com · 21/09/2026

What are we doing

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Ian Bogost @ibogost.com · 20/09/2026

Turns out you can just put an HDTV antenna in your attic and have television.

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Ian Bogost @ibogost.com · 20/09/2026

Yes, good idea.

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Ian Bogost @ibogost.com · 18/09/2026

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Ian Bogost @ibogost.com · 18/09/2026

Schnucks

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Ian Bogost @ibogost.com · 17/09/2026

I will be doing a live Q&A about this story at 1pm ET today. Just go to the article and it will tell you what to do! (Note that you need to be subscriber to The Atlantic to use our discussion features.)

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Ian Bogost @ibogost.com · 16/09/2026

I can't do this anymore.

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Ian Bogost @ibogost.com · 16/09/2026

Basic cable cost ~$16/mo in 1989, and a premium channel like HBO cost ~$10 more. That's ~$70/mo in today's dollars. But you got all the channels and a lot of value from the premium ones. $15/mo for Apple TV is 60% of what HBO would have felt like in 1990. But it feels like nothing near that value.

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Ian Bogost @ibogost.com · 07/07/2026

Today is publication day for The Small Stuff: How to Lead a More Gratifying Life. Find USA, Canada, and UK ordering links here: smallstuffbook.com The book is about how you got disconnected from the physical world, why it's not your fault, and how to reclaim gratification in everyday life.

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Ian Bogost @ibogost.com · 22/01/2025

[Žižek voice] And what is it the hippos were hungry for? The empty, white sphere of fantasy, onto which they—and the children who controlled them—could project their desire. Once captured, each hippo releases this desire, unconsumed, into a pen to contain it, before beginning the search for more.

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Ian Bogost @ibogost.com · 19/01/2025

Rigatoni reminds me of capybara.

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