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— has changed since they were first published. This second instalment isn’t exclusively about video games, but instead sees Jacob look to some 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 re-assessments of ten of his best video essays, brand new artwork and media has been commissioned for each essay whilst acclaimed guest writers have been enlisted to expand on conversations with additional afterwords. To name just a few – 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, Ze Burnay and more. Finally, artist Richard Blake breaks things up with a 10-page comic, including a spectacular gatefold spread, on “The Shape of Infinity”, while Kaveh Akbar, author of Martyr!, kicks the book off with a foreword on why exactly You’re Not Overthinking It.