Isabel Burney — Tobias Fünke as the Zany
Both the Kotsko and Batuman readings mention Arrested Development as an example of awkwardness, but I would like to discuss it through the lens of… Read More »Isabel Burney — Tobias Fünke as the Zany
Both the Kotsko and Batuman readings mention Arrested Development as an example of awkwardness, but I would like to discuss it through the lens of… Read More »Isabel Burney — Tobias Fünke as the Zany
Kostko argues that awkwardness shares an intrinsically social characterestic; it solely arises from breaking or avoiding societal rules. However, when these norms are unknown, it… Read More »Hana El Hilaly- Cultural Awkwardness and First Dates
Adam Kotsko highlights that “We watch awkward situations in everyday life as though we’re gaping at a car accident” and that “when we all come… Read More »Raya Milushev – viral clips and second-hand embarrassment
Adam Kotsko refers to awkwardness as a “social phenomenon” and states that the emphasis should not just lie on “awkward individuals” but on the entire… Read More »Fleabag: Awkwardness as Social Phenomenon
On pages 7 and 8 of his essay, Adam Kotsko explains the phenomenon known as “everyday awkwardness”, and explains that the awkwardness arises from particularly… Read More »Nicholas DiCorpo – Everyday Awkwardness and I Think You Should Leave
Adam Kotsko creates subcategories for awkwardness: “everyday awkwardness”, “cultural awkwardness” and “radical awkwardness”. For the purposes of my analysis, I shall be focusing on “everyday”… Read More »Emily Moreland – Awkwardness in Bridesmaids
While I was reading the chapter by Adam Kotsko, I found his notion of awkwardness having a “fundamentally social character” to be quite interesting in… Read More »Anastasia Norenko – Awkwardness in Play It Again, Sam
As Adam Kotso puts it in his essay on awkwardness, “it’s difficult to deny that there are people who whom awkwardness is a kind of… Read More »Caroline Vandis — Everyday Awkwardness and the White Lotus
Adam Kotsko describes on pages 7 and 8 the concept of radical awkwardness–situations which encounter awkwardness through the intersection of contradicting or confront coinciding norms.… Read More »Kevin Landers-Radical Awkwardness and Jonah Ryan
Adam Kotsko proposes that “awkwardness” hit its stride not only in the early 00’s, but also had it’s day in the sun in the 70’s.… Read More »Kas Schroeder – Awkwardness and Monty Python’s Flying Circus