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Show Notes
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".
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How are things gearing up for Poland's election later this month?
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Are video games moving culturally "upstream"?
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How does a game like Helldivers 2 promise to teach us agency but fails?
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Is the problem with video game criticism, and literary criticism, not so much their difficulty but rather that they are boring today?
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Has anyone managed to write a good "novel of the internet"?
Links:
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The Promise of Video Games, Pawel Kaczmarski, Damage