YOU'RE NOT OVERTHINKING IT: THE ANNOTATED ESSAYS OF JACOB GELLER

Jacob Geller

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You’re Not Overthinking It sees Jacob Geller return to his extensive archive of video essays to obsessively re-examine his past work, picking through his scripts with a fine-tooth comb and pulling apart each decision that led to the videos’ creation and how his feelings — and/or the world — have changed since they were first published. This second instalment isn’t exclusively about video games, but instead sees Jacob look to some of his darker and more mature essays through the lens of art, politics, history and philosophy, thinking through and re-evaluating his work on everything from execution methods and our fear of the dark, to architecture designed for violence, infinity, and head transplants.

On top of Jacob’s annotated reassessments of ten of his best video essays, brand new artwork and media has been commissioned for each essay while acclaimed guest writers have been enlisted to expand on conversations with additional afterwords. Among them, Jamie Loftus, author of Raw Dog, extends the discussion on “The Men Who Couldn't Stop Crying”, Mike Rugnetta, one of the progenitors of the modern video essay, writes about “Head Transplants and the Non-Existence of the Soul”, while Remy Siu, Creative Director of 1000xResist, joins us to talk about why “Nothing Ever Stops Existing”. In addition, the brilliant Kilian Eng returns for our cover illustration, while we have brand new artwork from a slew of talented illustrators such as Dragan Bibin, Ollie Jones, Michael Deforge, Zé Burnay and more. Artist Richard Blake contributes a ten-page comic, including a spectacular gatefold spread, on 'The Shape of Infinity', while Kaveh Akbar, author of Martyr!, kicks things off with a foreword to explain why, exactly, You're Not Overthinking It.

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PUBLICATION DETAILS

LANGUAGE	BINDING	EDITION	ISBN	YEAR	PAGES
English	Hardcover		TBD	2026	200
English	Hardcover	Deluxe Edition	TBD	2026	200

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You're Not Overthinking It: The Annotated Essays of Jacob Geller

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