Sam Norcross
@henryflowers22.bsky.social
Someday PhD-holder (Eng lit, Tufts) sometimes teacher, part-time bookseller, full-time lover of culture with not-enough-time to write about about it
When I was 14, I passed by the TV while my parents were watching 60 Minutes and saw this shot wedged in a montage about famous pilot episodes. Stopped everything to demand Netflix mail us the Twin Peaks DVDs ASAP. First image that came to mind after hearing the news today. RIP
January 16, 2025 at 11:50 PM
When I was 14, I passed by the TV while my parents were watching 60 Minutes and saw this shot wedged in a montage about famous pilot episodes. Stopped everything to demand Netflix mail us the Twin Peaks DVDs ASAP. First image that came to mind after hearing the news today. RIP
Severance has me thinking abt the look/feel of surreal corporate spaces in work satires (like—what do ‘kafka-esque’ workplaces tend to look like on screen)
I’ve got: Playtime, Brazil, Stanly Parable, Severance, Being John Malkovich. Other tv/movies/games missing from that list?
I’ve got: Playtime, Brazil, Stanly Parable, Severance, Being John Malkovich. Other tv/movies/games missing from that list?
January 14, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Severance has me thinking abt the look/feel of surreal corporate spaces in work satires (like—what do ‘kafka-esque’ workplaces tend to look like on screen)
I’ve got: Playtime, Brazil, Stanly Parable, Severance, Being John Malkovich. Other tv/movies/games missing from that list?
I’ve got: Playtime, Brazil, Stanly Parable, Severance, Being John Malkovich. Other tv/movies/games missing from that list?
Went to an academic conference and was inspired to do more public facing scholarship (i.e. gained 5 new Bluesky followers and will now be posting all my pop-culture hot takes)
January 12, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Went to an academic conference and was inspired to do more public facing scholarship (i.e. gained 5 new Bluesky followers and will now be posting all my pop-culture hot takes)
Reposted by Sam Norcross
Have you ever wondered what speedrunning is? What video games and literary analysis share? What about postcritique and twitch? Read this heady absolutely pleasurable essay by Sam Norcross on speedrunning and the two edges of a pleasurable play/text
mid-theory.com/2024/12/18/p...
mid-theory.com/2024/12/18/p...
Play Fast / Read Close : What Speedrunning Videogames Taught me about Close Reading Literature
And what makes the speedrunner and the close reader analogous is that, rather than merely identifying a glitch and determining its potential cause, they instead try to capture its potential energy—…
mid-theory.com
December 18, 2024 at 5:24 PM
Have you ever wondered what speedrunning is? What video games and literary analysis share? What about postcritique and twitch? Read this heady absolutely pleasurable essay by Sam Norcross on speedrunning and the two edges of a pleasurable play/text
mid-theory.com/2024/12/18/p...
mid-theory.com/2024/12/18/p...