Episodes

  • Video Games: A Discussion with Patrick Jagoda, Soraya Murray, and Noah Wardrip-Fruin

    Video Games: A Discussion with Patrick Jagoda, Soraya Murray, and Noah Wardrip-Fruin
    Jun 24 2021
    This June, Executive Editor Patrick Jagoda met with Soraya Murray, associate professor in the Film and Digital Media Department at UCSC, and Noah Wardrip-Fruin, professor in the Computational Media Department of UCSC, to discuss video games and critical theory. Their … Continue reading →
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    44 mins
  • CI since 1978: Celebrating Tom Mitchell’s Editorship

    CI since 1978: Celebrating Tom Mitchell’s Editorship
    Jul 24 2020
    To celebrate his forty-two years as the editor of Critical Inquiry, we asked past and present contributors and editors Homi Bhabha (0:55), Frances Ferguson (7:35), Elizabeth Abel (10:07), Lauren Berlant (16:08), Slavoj Žižek (19:20), and Hillary Chute (27:30) to share … Continue reading →
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    46 mins
  • Tales of the 1940s: A Conversation between Werner Sollors and Françoise Meltzer

    Tales of the 1940s: A Conversation between Werner Sollors and Françoise Meltzer
    Dec 19 2019
    Coeditor Françoise Meltzer and Werner Sollors discuss Sollors’s The Temptation of Despair: Tales of the 1940s (2014). Read Sollors’s “‘Better to Die by Them than for Them'”: Carl Schmitt Reads ‘Benito Cereno'” in the Winter 2020 issue of Critical Inquiry. … Continue reading →
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    38 mins
  • All That Heaven Allows: Robert Pippin and Tom Gunning Discuss the Work of Douglas Sirk

    All That Heaven Allows: Robert Pippin and Tom Gunning Discuss the Work of Douglas Sirk
    Jul 18 2019
    Robert Pippin and Tom Gunning discuss Douglass Sirk’s film All That Heaven Allows (1955). Pippin’s “Love and Class in Douglas Sirk’s All That Heaven Allows” was published in the Summer 2019 issue of Critical Inquiry. You can also listen and subscribe … Continue reading →
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    53 mins
  • Bruno Latour and Dipesh Chakrabarty: Geopolitics and the “Facts” of Climate Change

    Bruno Latour and Dipesh Chakrabarty: Geopolitics and the “Facts” of Climate Change
    Apr 11 2019
    Bruno Latour and Dipesh Chakrabarty visited WB202 to discuss new “questions of concern” and the fight over “facts” and climate change in the world after Trump’s election. Latour and Timothy Lenton’s “Extending the Domain of Freedom, or Why Gaia Is … Continue reading →
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    1 hr and 7 mins
  • Catherine Malabou on Life: A Critical Inquiry Interview

    Catherine Malabou on Life: A Critical Inquiry Interview
    Jan 29 2019
    Catherine Malabou stopped by the office of Critical Inquiry for a short and informal audio interview during her visit to the University of Chicago two years ago. We talked about her two CI essays, her book Before Tomorrow: Epigenesis and Rationality … Continue reading →
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    32 mins
  • Davidson and His Interlocutors, Part 2: An Interview with Arnold I. Davidson

    Davidson and His Interlocutors, Part 2: An Interview with Arnold I. Davidson
    Jan 15 2019
    Coeditor Richard Neer interviews Arnold Davidson about, among other things, his writing on music. This interview expands on the work featured in “Davidson and His Interlocutors,” a Winter 2019 special issue of Critical Inquiry. This is the second part of … Continue reading →
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    22 mins
  • Davidson and His Interlocutors, Part 1: An Interview with Arnold I. Davidson

    Davidson and His Interlocutors, Part 1: An Interview with Arnold I. Davidson
    Jan 8 2019
    Coeditor Richard Neer interviews Arnold Davidson about the history of his scholarship and research (including a fortuitous encounter with Michel Foucault). This interview expands on the work featured in “Davidson and His Interlocutors,” a Winter 2019 special issue of Critical … Continue reading →
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    38 mins