WB202: The Critical Inquiry Podcast

Jun 24 2021 13 ep. 42 mins 427
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Critical Inquiry is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal devoted to the best critical thought in the arts and humanities. Founded in 1974, it has been called “one of the best known and most influential journals in the world” (Chicago Tribune) and “academe’s most prestigious theory journal” (New York Times). WB202 expands the mission of the journal with a new platform for emerging and established scholars, critics, and artists to discuss the critical concerns of the past, present, and future.

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

Jun 24 2021 43 mins  
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 →

CI since 1978: Celebrating Tom Mitchell’s Editorship

Jul 24 2020 45 mins  
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 →

Tales of the 1940s: A Conversation between Werner Sollors and Françoise Meltzer

Dec 19 2019 38 mins  
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 →

All That Heaven Allows: Robert Pippin and Tom Gunning Discuss the Work of Douglas Sirk

Jul 18 2019 52 mins  
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 →

Bruno Latour and Dipesh Chakrabarty: Geopolitics and the “Facts” of Climate Change

Apr 11 2019 67 mins  
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 →

Catherine Malabou on Life: A Critical Inquiry Interview

Jan 29 2019 32 mins  
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 →

Davidson and His Interlocutors, Part 2: An Interview with Arnold I. Davidson

Jan 15 2019 22 mins  
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 →

Davidson and His Interlocutors, Part 1: An Interview with Arnold I. Davidson

Jan 08 2019 38 mins  
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 →

Dipesh Chakrabarty: Looking Back to “The Climate of History: Four Theses”

Dec 04 2018 46 mins  
Consulting Editor Dipesh Chakrabarty stopped by the office to discuss his 2009 Critical Inquiry essay, the emergence of the Anthropocene, the end of the world, and the future of theory. Listen to the podcast and visit our website to read “The … Continue reading →

Saidiya Hartman: An Interview with Adrienne Brown and Adom Getachew

Nov 20 2018 43 mins  
Adrienne Brown and Adom Getachew met with Saidiya Hartman in the offices of Critical Inquiry to discuss the varieties of unfreedom that Hartman continues to explore in her work. Hartman was the 2018 Critical Inquiry Visiting Professor. She is the … Continue reading →