The Lifelike Death: Dark Souls and the Dialectics in Black

The article builds on Badious observation, that black is simultaneously characterized by lack and excess. In the Dark Souls trilogy “dialectics in black” are realized as a law of movement, which structures how game world acquired. games highlight series conflicting temporalities, play experience being-in-the-present. From perspective assemblage, this dynamic temporalities can also be conceptualized longing for melding human inhuman. Here one find hint to create “communities out shared hardship” (Keza MacDonald Killingsworth). their many well specific mechanics, plots hauntingly concrete point contact between anonymous players, who feel connected loneliness.