Richy Srirachanikorn
@srirachanikorn.bsky.social
📟 Sociologist: nostalgia for the future and video games. Co-founder of @nostagain.bsky.social
🌟 Public Scholar 2025-2026 Concordia University, Montreal
🧳 Now at Concordia University
🚀 Let’s connect at https://richysrirachanikorn.wixsite.com/home
🌟 Public Scholar 2025-2026 Concordia University, Montreal
🧳 Now at Concordia University
🚀 Let’s connect at https://richysrirachanikorn.wixsite.com/home
Messy, abstract, & overly politicized ideas like #nostalgia and #home — can it be an #art #workshop?
24 folks in #Montreal explored this with #burlap by reweaving intentionally.
My home was tied up by red/white 🇨🇦 and blue strings 🇹🇭. I reimagined my past more honestly, truthfully, & creatively.
24 folks in #Montreal explored this with #burlap by reweaving intentionally.
My home was tied up by red/white 🇨🇦 and blue strings 🇹🇭. I reimagined my past more honestly, truthfully, & creatively.
November 27, 2025 at 6:46 AM
On Nov 25, we'll be Weaving Stories of Home. If you are in #montreal then, come join me at the Milieux Institute, where you will:
- Learn to unweave & reweave with two #textiles specialists
- Share and create a "material home" for your #nostalgia
- Drink hot choc during a snow day :-)
- Learn to unweave & reweave with two #textiles specialists
- Share and create a "material home" for your #nostalgia
- Drink hot choc during a snow day :-)
November 12, 2025 at 1:14 AM
On Nov 25, we'll be Weaving Stories of Home. If you are in #montreal then, come join me at the Milieux Institute, where you will:
- Learn to unweave & reweave with two #textiles specialists
- Share and create a "material home" for your #nostalgia
- Drink hot choc during a snow day :-)
- Learn to unweave & reweave with two #textiles specialists
- Share and create a "material home" for your #nostalgia
- Drink hot choc during a snow day :-)
☃️☕️ Sunday snowfall, coffee in hand, and reading abstracts for the « #Games and #Nostalgia for the Future » book I’m putting together.
So happy to see proposals from #videogame #gamedev #gamedevs #gameartists #indiegames and #gamestudies researchers.
Can’t wait to put it all together… COMING SOON!
So happy to see proposals from #videogame #gamedev #gamedevs #gameartists #indiegames and #gamestudies researchers.
Can’t wait to put it all together… COMING SOON!
November 9, 2025 at 9:13 PM
☃️☕️ Sunday snowfall, coffee in hand, and reading abstracts for the « #Games and #Nostalgia for the Future » book I’m putting together.
So happy to see proposals from #videogame #gamedev #gamedevs #gameartists #indiegames and #gamestudies researchers.
Can’t wait to put it all together… COMING SOON!
So happy to see proposals from #videogame #gamedev #gamedevs #gameartists #indiegames and #gamestudies researchers.
Can’t wait to put it all together… COMING SOON!
TMR!! « Nostalgia, code, & the End of the World » a 🔴LIVE talk with Alex Klexber.
Solo #gamedev who made a #nostalgia game wishlisted over 10,000 times.
HAPENNING NOV 5
🕰️ 11:00 PST
🕰️ 14:00 EST
🕰️ 21:00 IST
🎟️ Save your spot: shorturl.at/lMyj6
——
#videogames #videogame #retro #gameart #gameartist
Solo #gamedev who made a #nostalgia game wishlisted over 10,000 times.
HAPENNING NOV 5
🕰️ 11:00 PST
🕰️ 14:00 EST
🕰️ 21:00 IST
🎟️ Save your spot: shorturl.at/lMyj6
——
#videogames #videogame #retro #gameart #gameartist
November 4, 2025 at 1:54 PM
TMR!! « Nostalgia, code, & the End of the World » a 🔴LIVE talk with Alex Klexber.
Solo #gamedev who made a #nostalgia game wishlisted over 10,000 times.
HAPENNING NOV 5
🕰️ 11:00 PST
🕰️ 14:00 EST
🕰️ 21:00 IST
🎟️ Save your spot: shorturl.at/lMyj6
——
#videogames #videogame #retro #gameart #gameartist
Solo #gamedev who made a #nostalgia game wishlisted over 10,000 times.
HAPENNING NOV 5
🕰️ 11:00 PST
🕰️ 14:00 EST
🕰️ 21:00 IST
🎟️ Save your spot: shorturl.at/lMyj6
——
#videogames #videogame #retro #gameart #gameartist
🏡 “What should’ve been a return home turns into a visit of someone else’s house”
👾 The rise of #retrogaming is indicative of our relationship with #nostalgia as a #collector #consumer and #researcher
👉 Read the #news story at: richysrirachanikorn.wixsite.com/home/post/no...
👾 The rise of #retrogaming is indicative of our relationship with #nostalgia as a #collector #consumer and #researcher
👉 Read the #news story at: richysrirachanikorn.wixsite.com/home/post/no...
October 8, 2025 at 6:13 AM
🏡 “What should’ve been a return home turns into a visit of someone else’s house”
👾 The rise of #retrogaming is indicative of our relationship with #nostalgia as a #collector #consumer and #researcher
👉 Read the #news story at: richysrirachanikorn.wixsite.com/home/post/no...
👾 The rise of #retrogaming is indicative of our relationship with #nostalgia as a #collector #consumer and #researcher
👉 Read the #news story at: richysrirachanikorn.wixsite.com/home/post/no...
What happens if your nostalgia was shattered?
@robinjss.bsky.social argued that “games-on-games” means inserting new mechanics - or a twist - into an old looking game… leading to surprising and shocking gameplay.
#Nostalgia, via #games, can generate new experiences instead of just emulating them.
@robinjss.bsky.social argued that “games-on-games” means inserting new mechanics - or a twist - into an old looking game… leading to surprising and shocking gameplay.
#Nostalgia, via #games, can generate new experiences instead of just emulating them.
September 23, 2025 at 8:39 PM
What happens if your nostalgia was shattered?
@robinjss.bsky.social argued that “games-on-games” means inserting new mechanics - or a twist - into an old looking game… leading to surprising and shocking gameplay.
#Nostalgia, via #games, can generate new experiences instead of just emulating them.
@robinjss.bsky.social argued that “games-on-games” means inserting new mechanics - or a twist - into an old looking game… leading to surprising and shocking gameplay.
#Nostalgia, via #games, can generate new experiences instead of just emulating them.
🥀 Rose-tinted glasses have thorns, too. #retrogames #retrogaming #nostalgia #videogames — talk at OASIS centre at Tampere University’s @gameresearchlab.bsky.social
September 18, 2025 at 10:03 PM
🥀 Rose-tinted glasses have thorns, too. #retrogames #retrogaming #nostalgia #videogames — talk at OASIS centre at Tampere University’s @gameresearchlab.bsky.social
The game never ends. Character sheets, props, maps, are “remnants of play” (RoP).
Preserved games & consoles give a slice of the past; RoP cues us into why ppl stopped/continued playing.
@doktornick.bsky.social: RoP are often “donations & not deliberate collections”. Big part of play/er history!
Preserved games & consoles give a slice of the past; RoP cues us into why ppl stopped/continued playing.
@doktornick.bsky.social: RoP are often “donations & not deliberate collections”. Big part of play/er history!
September 17, 2025 at 3:59 PM
The game never ends. Character sheets, props, maps, are “remnants of play” (RoP).
Preserved games & consoles give a slice of the past; RoP cues us into why ppl stopped/continued playing.
@doktornick.bsky.social: RoP are often “donations & not deliberate collections”. Big part of play/er history!
Preserved games & consoles give a slice of the past; RoP cues us into why ppl stopped/continued playing.
@doktornick.bsky.social: RoP are often “donations & not deliberate collections”. Big part of play/er history!
#MarkFisher locates the “eerie” in everyday settings. #TTRPGs, esp #WarHammer ‘s eerie, empty towns? Unlived but clearly once a home.
@rosgakori.bsky.social argued this gets players to engage with, and hopefully, critique history. Also, the “Empire” is temporary both in the game and the real-world.
@rosgakori.bsky.social argued this gets players to engage with, and hopefully, critique history. Also, the “Empire” is temporary both in the game and the real-world.
September 16, 2025 at 8:34 PM
#MarkFisher locates the “eerie” in everyday settings. #TTRPGs, esp #WarHammer ‘s eerie, empty towns? Unlived but clearly once a home.
@rosgakori.bsky.social argued this gets players to engage with, and hopefully, critique history. Also, the “Empire” is temporary both in the game and the real-world.
@rosgakori.bsky.social argued this gets players to engage with, and hopefully, critique history. Also, the “Empire” is temporary both in the game and the real-world.
What does nostalgia look like? At a talk I gave today at Tampere University’s OASIS lab, #nostalgia was a collection of leaves marked by people’s definitions. 🍁
They passed their leaves to others, and received a new set; if they agreed— fold once— if they did not — crumple ‘em up!
They passed their leaves to others, and received a new set; if they agreed— fold once— if they did not — crumple ‘em up!
September 11, 2025 at 7:26 PM
What does nostalgia look like? At a talk I gave today at Tampere University’s OASIS lab, #nostalgia was a collection of leaves marked by people’s definitions. 🍁
They passed their leaves to others, and received a new set; if they agreed— fold once— if they did not — crumple ‘em up!
They passed their leaves to others, and received a new set; if they agreed— fold once— if they did not — crumple ‘em up!
Where does #nostalgia come from, and what does it have to do with pain?
August 21, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Where does #nostalgia come from, and what does it have to do with pain?
🗓️ « GTA IV and Nostalgic Disjuncture » on June 7
How does one ‘play’ around the nostalgia for a game they’ve never played before?
Will present at the Canadian Games Studies Association on a panel w @michaeliantorno.com @alexcustodio.com @hanine.bsky.social & Jules Maier-Zucchino !
How does one ‘play’ around the nostalgia for a game they’ve never played before?
Will present at the Canadian Games Studies Association on a panel w @michaeliantorno.com @alexcustodio.com @hanine.bsky.social & Jules Maier-Zucchino !
June 5, 2025 at 2:02 PM
🗓️ « GTA IV and Nostalgic Disjuncture » on June 7
How does one ‘play’ around the nostalgia for a game they’ve never played before?
Will present at the Canadian Games Studies Association on a panel w @michaeliantorno.com @alexcustodio.com @hanine.bsky.social & Jules Maier-Zucchino !
How does one ‘play’ around the nostalgia for a game they’ve never played before?
Will present at the Canadian Games Studies Association on a panel w @michaeliantorno.com @alexcustodio.com @hanine.bsky.social & Jules Maier-Zucchino !
🗓️ « Nostalgia in Everyday Life » on May 12
A study day on #nostalgia combining 2 workshops, 5 artist booths, and 8 paper presentations in #French and English!🇫🇷🇨🇦
Run with the CELAT-UQAM lab, Milieux Institute, @nostagain.bsky.social and the International #Media and Nostalgia Network — woot! 🥳
A study day on #nostalgia combining 2 workshops, 5 artist booths, and 8 paper presentations in #French and English!🇫🇷🇨🇦
Run with the CELAT-UQAM lab, Milieux Institute, @nostagain.bsky.social and the International #Media and Nostalgia Network — woot! 🥳
April 28, 2025 at 1:44 PM
🗓️ « Nostalgia in Everyday Life » on May 12
A study day on #nostalgia combining 2 workshops, 5 artist booths, and 8 paper presentations in #French and English!🇫🇷🇨🇦
Run with the CELAT-UQAM lab, Milieux Institute, @nostagain.bsky.social and the International #Media and Nostalgia Network — woot! 🥳
A study day on #nostalgia combining 2 workshops, 5 artist booths, and 8 paper presentations in #French and English!🇫🇷🇨🇦
Run with the CELAT-UQAM lab, Milieux Institute, @nostagain.bsky.social and the International #Media and Nostalgia Network — woot! 🥳
👋 PhD student at @concordiau.bsky.social
📍Founded 1st student Rs collective in NA on nostalgia @nostagain.bsky.social
🔬 #nostalgia #time #loneliness #videogames #hikikomori
🎈How can we use nostalgia for the future?
Nostalgia as COMFORT but also RESISTANCE to dominant social time narratives?
📍Founded 1st student Rs collective in NA on nostalgia @nostagain.bsky.social
🔬 #nostalgia #time #loneliness #videogames #hikikomori
🎈How can we use nostalgia for the future?
Nostalgia as COMFORT but also RESISTANCE to dominant social time narratives?
April 22, 2025 at 2:05 AM
👋 PhD student at @concordiau.bsky.social
📍Founded 1st student Rs collective in NA on nostalgia @nostagain.bsky.social
🔬 #nostalgia #time #loneliness #videogames #hikikomori
🎈How can we use nostalgia for the future?
Nostalgia as COMFORT but also RESISTANCE to dominant social time narratives?
📍Founded 1st student Rs collective in NA on nostalgia @nostagain.bsky.social
🔬 #nostalgia #time #loneliness #videogames #hikikomori
🎈How can we use nostalgia for the future?
Nostalgia as COMFORT but also RESISTANCE to dominant social time narratives?
“Nostalgia is an offer you can’t refuse” 🥀
Pitched 5 kinds of #nostalgia by drawing from The #Godfather, #Barbie, #Titanic, and #Heinz Ketchup…
Presented at @nostagain.bsky.social — watch the talk: youtu.be/O_rYrKbYleY
Pitched 5 kinds of #nostalgia by drawing from The #Godfather, #Barbie, #Titanic, and #Heinz Ketchup…
Presented at @nostagain.bsky.social — watch the talk: youtu.be/O_rYrKbYleY
March 17, 2025 at 2:54 AM
“Nostalgia is an offer you can’t refuse” 🥀
Pitched 5 kinds of #nostalgia by drawing from The #Godfather, #Barbie, #Titanic, and #Heinz Ketchup…
Presented at @nostagain.bsky.social — watch the talk: youtu.be/O_rYrKbYleY
Pitched 5 kinds of #nostalgia by drawing from The #Godfather, #Barbie, #Titanic, and #Heinz Ketchup…
Presented at @nostagain.bsky.social — watch the talk: youtu.be/O_rYrKbYleY
One day before our main symposium for @nostagain.bsky.social, we are launching 3 talks in the PRECONFERENCE for #nostalgia as a political tool!
Stories from India, Poland, & Iran shed light on this struggle.
Catch the talks on 13 Feb at nostagain.ca/2025/02/11/p...
Stories from India, Poland, & Iran shed light on this struggle.
Catch the talks on 13 Feb at nostagain.ca/2025/02/11/p...
February 11, 2025 at 2:29 PM
One day before our main symposium for @nostagain.bsky.social, we are launching 3 talks in the PRECONFERENCE for #nostalgia as a political tool!
Stories from India, Poland, & Iran shed light on this struggle.
Catch the talks on 13 Feb at nostagain.ca/2025/02/11/p...
Stories from India, Poland, & Iran shed light on this struggle.
Catch the talks on 13 Feb at nostagain.ca/2025/02/11/p...
When one is in the weeds of the #Zotero Jungle, one gets #nostalgia for a reader companion… Microsoft Clippy Dude, where are you!!
December 9, 2024 at 7:08 AM
When one is in the weeds of the #Zotero Jungle, one gets #nostalgia for a reader companion… Microsoft Clippy Dude, where are you!!
Visited #Ravenholm for the first time tonight. WOW.
December 9, 2024 at 12:05 AM
Visited #Ravenholm for the first time tonight. WOW.
Reading for #nostalgia comps: Veridis Quo and Winter backdrop. It doesn’t get any better than this.
December 5, 2024 at 1:22 PM
Reading for #nostalgia comps: Veridis Quo and Winter backdrop. It doesn’t get any better than this.
Working on or want to dip into the #nostalgia research crowd? And to experience #Montreal in February? 🥶😁
Submit to our LOVE & LOSS symposium 🌹before Jan 13th 2025!
Welcoming *all* approaches tackling nostalgia — #cfp here at nostagain.ca/2024/10/10/c...
Submit to our LOVE & LOSS symposium 🌹before Jan 13th 2025!
Welcoming *all* approaches tackling nostalgia — #cfp here at nostagain.ca/2024/10/10/c...
November 28, 2024 at 6:58 AM
Working on or want to dip into the #nostalgia research crowd? And to experience #Montreal in February? 🥶😁
Submit to our LOVE & LOSS symposium 🌹before Jan 13th 2025!
Welcoming *all* approaches tackling nostalgia — #cfp here at nostagain.ca/2024/10/10/c...
Submit to our LOVE & LOSS symposium 🌹before Jan 13th 2025!
Welcoming *all* approaches tackling nostalgia — #cfp here at nostagain.ca/2024/10/10/c...
#Nostalgia is bittersweet — what other flavours can you bring to the table? 🏞️
#CfP Submit your research, art, think pieces, music, poetry, etc. to our HYBRID symposium “LOVE & LOSS” at Concordia University, Montréal! 📍
www.nostagain.ca/cfp2025
#CfP Submit your research, art, think pieces, music, poetry, etc. to our HYBRID symposium “LOVE & LOSS” at Concordia University, Montréal! 📍
www.nostagain.ca/cfp2025
November 14, 2024 at 5:19 PM
#Nostalgia is bittersweet — what other flavours can you bring to the table? 🏞️
#CfP Submit your research, art, think pieces, music, poetry, etc. to our HYBRID symposium “LOVE & LOSS” at Concordia University, Montréal! 📍
www.nostagain.ca/cfp2025
#CfP Submit your research, art, think pieces, music, poetry, etc. to our HYBRID symposium “LOVE & LOSS” at Concordia University, Montréal! 📍
www.nostagain.ca/cfp2025
We are recruiting grad students, scholars, artists or enthusiasts of NOSTALGIA — work with North America’s first student-led research collective on #nostalgia!
Applications are reviewed until positions are filled: shorturl.at/hATUW
Please SHARE! #recruiting
Applications are reviewed until positions are filled: shorturl.at/hATUW
Please SHARE! #recruiting
March 9, 2024 at 5:21 AM
We are recruiting grad students, scholars, artists or enthusiasts of NOSTALGIA — work with North America’s first student-led research collective on #nostalgia!
Applications are reviewed until positions are filled: shorturl.at/hATUW
Please SHARE! #recruiting
Applications are reviewed until positions are filled: shorturl.at/hATUW
Please SHARE! #recruiting
Geraldo Rivera, embarrassing time capsule ceremonies, research creation and nostalgia?
Here's a 5 minute primer to why they all come together when we talk about NOSTALGIA FOR THE FUTURE and why we all should --
Our memories of the good, the bad, and even Geraldo Rivera.
shorturl.at/ouCI0
Here's a 5 minute primer to why they all come together when we talk about NOSTALGIA FOR THE FUTURE and why we all should --
Our memories of the good, the bad, and even Geraldo Rivera.
shorturl.at/ouCI0
February 7, 2024 at 6:39 AM
Geraldo Rivera, embarrassing time capsule ceremonies, research creation and nostalgia?
Here's a 5 minute primer to why they all come together when we talk about NOSTALGIA FOR THE FUTURE and why we all should --
Our memories of the good, the bad, and even Geraldo Rivera.
shorturl.at/ouCI0
Here's a 5 minute primer to why they all come together when we talk about NOSTALGIA FOR THE FUTURE and why we all should --
Our memories of the good, the bad, and even Geraldo Rivera.
shorturl.at/ouCI0
I talked to @bartsimon.bsky.social for episode THREE of our SSHRC-funded #Minecraft research launching 🔴LIVE on YouTube tonight at 8pm PST…
Watch it here: youtu.be/8XNqIF8cy1s?...
Watch it here: youtu.be/8XNqIF8cy1s?...
November 19, 2023 at 11:39 PM
I talked to @bartsimon.bsky.social for episode THREE of our SSHRC-funded #Minecraft research launching 🔴LIVE on YouTube tonight at 8pm PST…
Watch it here: youtu.be/8XNqIF8cy1s?...
Watch it here: youtu.be/8XNqIF8cy1s?...
Excited to launch a video series on our SSHRC Minecraft project we’ve been working on for a year. Touching on modded #Minecraft to the Fun Palace to #gamestudies
🔔Ring the Bell folks! Video is LIVE Thursday 2nd Nov at 9pm EST!!
youtu.be/ZTdPjbHlnX8?...
🔔Ring the Bell folks! Video is LIVE Thursday 2nd Nov at 9pm EST!!
youtu.be/ZTdPjbHlnX8?...
November 2, 2023 at 2:54 AM
Excited to launch a video series on our SSHRC Minecraft project we’ve been working on for a year. Touching on modded #Minecraft to the Fun Palace to #gamestudies
🔔Ring the Bell folks! Video is LIVE Thursday 2nd Nov at 9pm EST!!
youtu.be/ZTdPjbHlnX8?...
🔔Ring the Bell folks! Video is LIVE Thursday 2nd Nov at 9pm EST!!
youtu.be/ZTdPjbHlnX8?...