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/485/ Can Games Teach Us Agency? ft. Pawel Kaczmarski

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On the promise of videos games.

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Pawel Kaczmarski – a literary critic who teaches modern and contemporary Polish literature at the University of Wrocław – talks to George and Alex about his piece in Damage, "The Promise of Video Games".

  • How are things gearing up for Poland's election later this month?

  • Are video games moving culturally "upstream"?

  • How does a game like Helldivers 2 promise to teach us agency but fails?

  • Is the problem with video game criticism, and literary criticism, not so much their difficulty but rather that they are boring today?

  • Has anyone managed to write a good "novel of the internet"?

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