Crisis and Critique

Crisis and Critique

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Joshua Oppenheimer on his movies, Tilda Swinton in "The End", the politics of movie making, and more

Frank Ruda and Agon Hamza sit down with the American-British movie director Joshua Oppenheimer to discuss his first narrative feature film, The End, as well as The Act of Killing, documentary filmmaking, movie making, politics, catastrophes and apocalypse, cr ...

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Jean-Jacques Lecercle on language, politics, Chomsky, Frankenstein, and related matters.

Agon Hamza and Frank Ruda sit with the French philosopher Jean-Jacques Lecercle to discuss his approach to language, philosophy on the internet, the violence of language, forms of interpretation, Althusser and interpellation, class struggle in the field of language, Noam Chomsky, ...  Afficher plus

Jean-Pierre Dupuy on René Girard, doomsaying, Borges, metaphysics of time… and a lot more!

Frank Ruda and Agon Hamza sit down with the French philosopher Jean-Piere Dupuy to discuss his new book “Vertigos: Thinking with Borges”, the enlightened doomsaying, nuclear apocalypse, metaphysics of time, politics and economy… and much more!You can listen to our podcast here: h ...  Afficher plus

Special: Žižek on “The Oeuvre of Slavoj Žižek”

We just published the new issue of Crisis and Critique, which is devoted to the wok of Slavoj Žižek. Today we are excited and honoured to have Slavoj Žižek himself for this “special edition” to mark the publication of the issue of the journal. The full issue is available at the l ...  Afficher plus

Todd McGowan on perversion, comedy, Hegel, alienation... and a lot more

Agon Hamza and Frank Ruda sit with the American philosopher Todd McGowan to discuss the nature of comedy, perversion and hysteria, psychoanalysis as a philosophical orientation, political nonbelonging, alienation, Hegelian philosophy.. and a lot more!You can listen to our podcast ...  Afficher plus