Humour and Games Season 3 Episode 12: Darshana Jayemanne and Cameron Kunzelman on “Cybernetic Irony: Racial Humour from Mecha-Hitler to Nuclear Gandhi.”

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On this episode we speak with Darshana Jayemanne and Cameron Kunzelman on their chapter “Cybernetic Irony: Racial Humour from Mecha-Hitler to Nuclear Gandhi.” We chat about different cultural approaches to game humour, cybernetic irony, and the colonial roots of racialized humour in games.

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