Jacob Geller on the Evolution of Video Essays and Games Criticism
Origin Story
English - October 24, 2023 09:00 - 1 hour - 71.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsBooks Arts Technology games longform gaming interviews film video games books music conversations creative process Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Jacob Geller is a YouTube video-essayist whose work grapples with video games, history, politics, empathy, and more. Recently his criticism has engaged with the politics of climate change and art in the pre-apocalypse as well as media preservation in the digital age.
We talked with him about video essays as an art form and what it means that they are the most popular form of criticism.
Hosted by Phillip Russell and Ben Thorp
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