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Podcast: Bungacast
Episode: /485/ Can Games Teach Us Agency? ft. Pawel Kaczmarski
Description: On the promise of videos games.
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Pawel Kaczmarski β a literary critic who teaches modern and contemporary Polish literature at the University of WrocΕaw β 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 criti...