Max Coombes
@maxcoombes.bsky.social
phd @ uoa: phenomenology and videogames
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https://rateyourmusic.com/~nostalghia
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maxwcoombes.neocities.org
https://rateyourmusic.com/~nostalghia
https://letterboxd.com/sisterlisa666/
this closeup, casually deforming space-time, in the swimmer (1968)
November 12, 2025 at 10:20 PM
this closeup, casually deforming space-time, in the swimmer (1968)
watching the living dead at manchester morgue (1974), saw a sign reading "Climbers Hikers Served in Passage →," and thought about m john harrison's climbers (1989)
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November 3, 2025 at 1:52 AM
watching the living dead at manchester morgue (1974), saw a sign reading "Climbers Hikers Served in Passage →," and thought about m john harrison's climbers (1989)
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Hands in Susan Te Kahurangi King Untitled 1974-79; 1975-79. Her work both makes you want to draw, and wonder why anybody ever tried to draw since
October 10, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Hands in Susan Te Kahurangi King Untitled 1974-79; 1975-79. Her work both makes you want to draw, and wonder why anybody ever tried to draw since
Which in turn brings me back to Merleau-Ponty, for whom impersonal alienation from one's own body is, paradoxically, the precondition for embodiment
October 5, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Which in turn brings me back to Merleau-Ponty, for whom impersonal alienation from one's own body is, paradoxically, the precondition for embodiment
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...
October 5, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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...
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
October 4, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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
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
October 4, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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
most listened to in september
September 30, 2025 at 8:50 PM
most listened to in september
Michael Ayrton, El Desdichado (The Unlucky One), 1944
September 15, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Michael Ayrton, El Desdichado (The Unlucky One), 1944
Silent Hill 2 (2024), remakes, and bad infinity maxwcoombes.neocities.org/writing-art/...
September 4, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Silent Hill 2 (2024), remakes, and bad infinity maxwcoombes.neocities.org/writing-art/...
Notes on Cosmic Osmo (1989) maxwcoombes.neocities.org/writing-art/...
July 31, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Notes on Cosmic Osmo (1989) maxwcoombes.neocities.org/writing-art/...
Also @larrymay.me it's a great film I promise
July 16, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Also @larrymay.me it's a great film I promise
Birthday+PhD present made by my friend Cindy. It's so precious it kills me ❤️
July 16, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Birthday+PhD present made by my friend Cindy. It's so precious it kills me ❤️
Incredibly proud to have this out with the Journal of Games Criticism - Black Sun in the Land of Shadow: DLCs and Textual Depletion in Shadow of the Erdtree (2024)
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April 16, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Incredibly proud to have this out with the Journal of Games Criticism - Black Sun in the Land of Shadow: DLCs and Textual Depletion in Shadow of the Erdtree (2024)
gamescriticism.org/2025/04/15/c...
gamescriticism.org/2025/04/15/c...