Virtual Matter: "You Tried" An Interview with Jeremy Gordon on Dark Souls

Text of the Matter

Virtual Matter is A New Brand's second podcast series. Where Text of the Matter will look at written works, philosophical concepts, and how they function within society; Virtual Matter will take up media in all its forms--Sports, Film, Literature, Music, and today Video Games. In our first episode we interview an incisive editorialist of contemporary culture, Jeremy Gordon--who has written for The New York Times, GQ, Pitchfork, and The Ringer, for whom he wrote a recent piece "Don't You Dare Go Hollow" on Dark Souls in the isolation of Covid-19 and the community he discovered therein. We also talk about the meaning and scope of the genre, its affect on video games in general, and the meaning of and trends within video game communities. Find his article at the Ringer below: https://www.theringer.com/2021/5/13/2...