banner
LightNews
maxcoombes.bsky.social
Max Coombes
@maxcoombes.bsky.social
61 followers 75 following 89 posts
phd @ uoa: phenomenology and videogames maxwcoombes.neocities.org https://rateyourmusic.com/~nostalghia https://letterboxd.com/sisterlisa666/
rateyourmusic.com
Posts Media Videos Starter Packs
Pinned
maxcoombes.bsky.social
Max Coombes @maxcoombes.bsky.social · Nov 15
Hikoi mō Te Tiriti
7
Reposted by Max Coombes
danielgorman20.bsky.social
danielgorman20 @danielgorman20.bsky.social · 1d
1 3 17
maxcoombes.bsky.social
Max Coombes @maxcoombes.bsky.social · 2d
Can't go wrong!
1 1 1
maxcoombes.bsky.social
Max Coombes @maxcoombes.bsky.social · 3d
hell yeah this is great
1
maxcoombes.bsky.social
Max Coombes @maxcoombes.bsky.social · 4d
maxcoombes.bsky.social
Max Coombes @maxcoombes.bsky.social · 5d
Which in turn brings me back to Merleau-Ponty, for whom impersonal alienation from one's own body is, paradoxically, the precondition for embodiment
1
maxcoombes.bsky.social
Max Coombes @maxcoombes.bsky.social · 5d
Both bring me to Nicoll's 'Looking for the Gamic Gaze: Desire, Fantasy, and Enjoyment in Gorogoa' (2022), and its corrective to simplified notions of the gaze journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
1
maxcoombes.bsky.social
Max Coombes @maxcoombes.bsky.social · 5d
It reminded me of a bit in Resident Evil 1, where we walk into a room and realise too late we've been watching the 'wrong' image of ourselves
1
maxcoombes.bsky.social
Max Coombes @maxcoombes.bsky.social · 5d
Insane sequence in The Spiral Staircase (1946) - we see Helen ascend the staircase, we realise it's a reflection, Helen sees her mirror image, in her reflection Helen remembers she cannot speak
1 2
maxcoombes.bsky.social
Max Coombes @maxcoombes.bsky.social · 6d
maxcoombes.bsky.social
Max Coombes @maxcoombes.bsky.social · 6d
1
maxcoombes.bsky.social
Max Coombes @maxcoombes.bsky.social · 6d
Antigone, desire, and the stain of death in A Virgin Among the Living Dead (1973)
maxwcoombes.neocities.org/writing-art/...
A Virgin Among the Living Dead
maxwcoombes.neocities.org
1
maxcoombes.bsky.social
Max Coombes @maxcoombes.bsky.social · 9d
maxcoombes.bsky.social
Max Coombes @maxcoombes.bsky.social · 9d
1
maxcoombes.bsky.social
Max Coombes @maxcoombes.bsky.social · 9d
1
maxcoombes.bsky.social
Max Coombes @maxcoombes.bsky.social · 9d
1
maxcoombes.bsky.social
Max Coombes @maxcoombes.bsky.social · 9d
far out
1 1
maxcoombes.bsky.social
Max Coombes @maxcoombes.bsky.social · 9d
most listened to in september
3
Reposted by Max Coombes
danielgorman20.bsky.social
danielgorman20 @danielgorman20.bsky.social · 14d
fuzzy lo-fi images from Lav Diaz’s first film, Burger Boys, which seems to only exist in a vhs rip online
1 3 10
Reposted by Max Coombes
skyephemera.bsky.social
amanda (sky ephemera) @skyephemera.bsky.social · 17d
a new favorite
JPS Experience - Modus Vivendi
YouTube video by justarkadia
youtu.be
1 1 1
maxcoombes.bsky.social
Max Coombes @maxcoombes.bsky.social · 25d
Michael Ayrton, El Desdichado (The Unlucky One), 1944
1
maxcoombes.bsky.social
Max Coombes @maxcoombes.bsky.social · 28d
ahhh even chunkier!!!!! i need to see them!!!
1
maxcoombes.bsky.social
Max Coombes @maxcoombes.bsky.social · 28d
some writing on songs: ohia's the lioness (2000) maxwcoombes.neocities.org/writing-art/...
Songs: Ohia's The Lioness
maxwcoombes.neocities.org
1 2
maxcoombes.bsky.social
Max Coombes @maxcoombes.bsky.social · Sep 8
Omg ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
1 1
maxcoombes.bsky.social
Max Coombes @maxcoombes.bsky.social · Sep 4
Silent Hill 2 (2024), remakes, and bad infinity maxwcoombes.neocities.org/writing-art/...
1
Reposted by Max Coombes
brkeogh.bsky.social
Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · Sep 4
BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT! @mahliann.bsky.social, @marcuscarter.com, and myself have combined our collective brains and written a wide-reaching introduction to the complex and interdisciplinary field of Game Studies in this forthcoming book for Polity. www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
11 110 450