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Thomas Hertog on Stephen Hawking, cosmology, Big Bang, history and other things.
Jun 9, 2026
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Sianne Ngai on ugly thoughts, ugly feeling, aesthetic categories, gimmick in capitalism, and more
May 8, 2026
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Kim Stanley Robinson on his work, utopic realism, the future of Mars, Fredric Jameson… and so on.
Mar 16, 2026
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Avital Ronell on America, loser sons, Europe, stupidity and more
Jan 20, 2026
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Joshua Oppenheimer on his movies, Tilda Swinton in "The End", the politics of movie making, and more
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| 6/9/26 | Thomas Hertog on Stephen Hawking, cosmology, Big Bang, history and other things. | Frank Ruda and Agon Hamza sit down with the Belgian cosmologist Thomas to discuss his current work, his collaboration with his PhD advisor and collaborator Stephen Hawking, cosmology, the nature of the Big Bang, the relation between physics and philosophy, Hawking's “Darwinian revolution in cosmology”, observation, history, the problem of origin, and many other (non)related things.You can listen to our podcast here: https://anchor.fm/crisisandcritiqueIf you like this and other episodes, please consider subscribing and supporting us at our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=71723553You can find our Substack here: https://crisiscritique.substack.com/Crisis and Critique Journal: https://www.crisiscritique.org/ | — | ||||||
| 5/8/26 | Sianne Ngai on ugly thoughts, ugly feeling, aesthetic categories, gimmick in capitalism, and more | Agon Hamza and Frank Ruda sit down with American cultural theorist Sianne Ngai to discuss her intellectual trajectory, political aesthetics, Fredric Jameson, ugly thoughts, ugly feelings, aesthetic categories, the gimmick in capitalism… and a lot of other things. You can listen to our podcast here: https://anchor.fm/crisisandcritique If you like this and other episodes, please consider subscribing and supporting us at our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=71723553 You can find our Substack here: https://crisiscritique.substack.com/ Crisis and Critique Journal: https://www.crisiscritique.org/ | — | ||||||
| 3/16/26 | Kim Stanley Robinson on his work, utopic realism, the future of Mars, Fredric Jameson… and so on. | Frank Ruda and Agon Hamza sit down with the American science-fiction novelist Kim Stanley Robinson to discuss his work, the nature of his trilogies, the future of utopia, utopic realism, politics of the present, science of politics, his forthcoming novels, and many other things You can listen to our podcast here: https://anchor.fm/crisisandcritique If you like this and other episodes, please consider subscribing and supporting us at our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=71723553 You can find our Substack here: https://crisiscritique.substack.com/ Crisis and Critique Journal: https://www.crisiscritique.org/ | — | ||||||
| 1/20/26 | Avital Ronell on America, loser sons, Europe, stupidity and more | Agon Hamza and Frank Ruda sit with the American philosopher Avital Ronell to discuss her latest work “America”, contemporaryloser sons, stupidity, dreaming and Freud, contemporary anti-intellectualism, authority, and a lot of other things.You can listen to our podcast here: https://anchor.fm/crisisandcritique If you like this and other episodes, please consider subscribing and supporting us at our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=71723553 You can find our Substack here: https://crisiscritique.substack.com/ Crisis and Critique Journal: https://www.crisiscritique.org/#avitalronell #america #europe #podcast #theory #philosophy #deconstruction #derrida #politics #freud #psychoanalysis #heidegger | — | ||||||
| 11/15/25 | 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, critique of ideology, and many other topics.You can listen to our podcast here: https://anchor.fm/crisisandcritique If you like this and other episodes, please consider subscribing and supporting us at our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=71723553You can find our Substack here: https://crisiscritique.substack.com/Crisis and Critique Journal: https://www.crisiscritique.org/ | — | ||||||
| 11/4/25 | 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, Jürgen Habermas… and many other things.You can listen to our podcast here: https://anchor.fm/crisisandcritique If you like this and other episodes, please consider subscribing and supporting us at our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=71723553You can find our Substack here: https://crisiscritique.substack.com/Crisis and Critique Journal: https://www.crisiscritique.org/ | — | ||||||
| 9/25/25 | 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: https://anchor.fm/crisisandcritique If you like this and other episodes, please consider subscribing and supporting us at our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=71723553 | — | ||||||
| 8/31/25 | 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 link below: https://www.crisiscritique.org/ You can listen to our podcast here: https://anchor.fm/crisisandcritique If you like this and other episodes, please consider subscribing and supporting us at our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=71723553 | — | ||||||
| 6/16/25 | 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 here: https://anchor.fm/crisisandcritique If you like this and other episodes, please consider subscribing and supporting us at our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=71723553 | — | ||||||
| 5/19/25 | Adam Tooze on approaching history, polycrisis, the contemporary USA, Batman… and many other things | Frank Ruda and Agon Hamza sit down with the British-American historian and theorist Adam Tooze, to talk about the contemporary situation, polycrisis, history and its future, climate crisis, pandemic, … and many other things!You can listen to our podcast here: https://anchor.fm/crisisandcritique If you like this and other episodes, please consider subscribing and supporting us at our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=71723553 | — | ||||||
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| 4/4/25 | Rebecca Comay on Persistence, Dialectics, Dramaturgy, “Bad Mothers” ... and many other things! | Agon Hamza and Frank Ruda sit with the Canadian philosopher Rebecca Comay to discuss about her forthcoming books, (death) drive, dialectics, Hegel, dramaturgy, art and poetry, Marx.. and a lot of other things. You can listen to our podcasthere: https://anchor.fm/crisisandcritique If you like this and otherepisodes, please consider subscribing and supporting us at our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=71723553 | — | ||||||
| 2/6/25 | Wolfgang Streeck on Trump, fascism, Europe, the left, the end of capitalism… and a lot more! | Frank Ruda and Agon Hamza sit down with the German economic sociologist to discuss the nature and prospects of Trump presidency, fascism, the upcoming German elections and Europe, contemporary capitalism and its crisis, as well as what will end capitalism. You can listen to our podcast here: https://anchor.fm/crisisandcritique If you like this and other episodes, please consider subscribing and supporting us at our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=71723553 | — | ||||||
| 1/16/25 | Darian Leader on jouissance, hands, philosophy, Mona Lisa, art, obscenity... and a lot more | Agon Hamza and Frank Ruda sit down with the British psychoanalyst and author Darian Leader to discuss his latest book, his intellectual trajectory, the status and role of psychoanalysis, sciences, art, stealing the Mona Lisa, hands.. and many other topics You can listen to our podcast here: https://anchor.fm/crisisandcritique If you like this and other episodes, please consider subscribing and supporting us at our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=71723553 | — | ||||||
| 11/6/24 | Michael Heinrich on the election Trump, cautious biographies, Marx, ecology, capitalism and critique | Frank Ruda and Agon Hamza sit down with the German Marxologist and “radical philologist” Michael Heinrich to discuss his project on the biography of Marx, new translation of “Capital”, value theory, the election of Donald Trump…. and many other things. You can listen to our podcast here: https://anchor.fm/crisisandcritique If you like this and other episodes, please consider subscribing and supporting us at our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=71723553 | — | ||||||
| 9/8/24 | Yanis Varoufakis on the US elections, Techno-Feudalism, the role of the family.. and other things | Agon Hamza and Frank Ruda sit down with the Greek economist, politician and former finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis to discuss his latest book “Techno-Feudalism: What Killed Capitalism”, the end of capitalism, its contradictions, the new Cold War, US elections… and many other things! You can listen to our podcast here: https://anchor.fm/crisisandcritique If you like this and other episodes, please consider subscribing and supporting us at our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=71723553 | — | ||||||
| 5/29/24 | Mladen Dolar on the limits of psychoanalysis, Marx and Hegel, Beckett, theatre/opera… and a lot more | Frank Ruda and Agon Hamza sit down with the Slovenian philosopher, psychoanalytical theorist and cultural theorist, Mladen Dolar to discuss his forthcoming books on rumours and “The Riskiest Moments” reading(s) of Marx, limits or the end of psychoanalysis, Hegel, film and series, music and opera, theatre… and many other things. You can listen to our podcast here: https://anchor.fm/crisisandcritique If you like this and other episodes, please consider subscribing and supporting us at our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=71723553 | — | ||||||
| 4/24/24 | Silvia Federici on feminism, primitive accumulation, bodies, magic, dance… and (no) Taylor Swift | Agon Hamza and Frank Ruda sit down with the Italian feminist theorist and activist Silvia Federici to discuss her work on feminism, critique of Marx(ism), primitive accumulation, contemporary feminism, wars, and many other things. You can listen to our podcast here: https://anchor.fm/crisisandcritique If you like this and other episodes, please consider subscribing and supporting us at our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=71723553 | — | ||||||
| 3/6/24 | Catherine Malabou on the Clitoris, AI, Anarchism, Hegel, Marx… and much more! | Frank Ruda and Agon Hamza sit down with the French philosopher Catherine Malabou to discuss her latest books on anarchism and clitoris, Artificial Intelligence, domination, films and culture, the role of philosophy, and a lot of other topics. You can listen to our podcast here: https://anchor.fm/crisisandcritique If you like this and other episodes, please consider subscribing and supporting us at our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=71723553 | — | ||||||
| 1/9/24 | Cornel West on American Politics, Catastrophe, Messy Materialism, Blues, Christianity and Coltrane. | Agon Hamza and Frank Ruda sit down with the American philosopher, theologian and presidential candidate Cornel West to discuss his philosophy and politics, the theological dimension of his philosophical thinking and political activism, racism, US elections, jazz and blues, and many other topics. You can listen to our podcast here: https://anchor.fm/crisisandcritique If you like this and other episodes, please consider subscribing and supporting us at our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=71723553 | — | ||||||
| 12/14/23 | Slavoj Žižek on Marx, Hegel, Politics, Films, Burgers and Hot Dogs… and a lot more! | Frank Ruda and Agon Hamza sit down with the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek to discuss his latest books, Marx and Hegel, contemporary political situation, film and novels, as well as many other topics. You can listen to our podcast here: https://anchor.fm/crisisandcritique If you like this and other episodes, please consider subscribing and supporting us at our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=71723553 | — | ||||||
| 11/10/23 | Robert B. Pippin on Politics Today, Hegel, Heidegger, Cinema....and more! | Agon Hamza and Frank Ruda sit down with American philosopher Robert B. Pippin, to discuss his new book on Heidegger and German Idealism, Hegel, US politics, state of contemporary cinema and other topics. If you like this and other episodes, please consider subscribing and supporting us at our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=71723553 | — | ||||||
| 4/26/23 | Jacques Rancière on aesthetics, art, movies, ecology, and more. Part II | Frank Ruda and Agon Hamza resume their discussion with philosopher Jacques Rancière. In the second instalment, they talk about the aesthetic regime of art, films and TV series, time, ecology and communism… and more! You can listen to our podcast here: https://anchor.fm/crisisandcritique If you like this and other episodes, please consider subscribing and supporting us at our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=71723553 | — | ||||||
| 4/13/23 | Jacques Rancière on May ‘68, philosophy, labour, revolts, and much more. Part One | Agon Hamza and Frank Ruda sit down in the first of a two-instalment interview with philosopher Jacques Rancière. Hear Rancière discuss his years at the École Normale Supérieure, his earliest work, the events and consequences of May ’68, the significance of philosophy, the ongoing strikes in France, workers and proletarians, as well as the division of labour…and more…. You can listen to our podcast here: https://anchor.fm/crisisandcritique If you like this and other episodes, please consider subscribing and supporting us at our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=71723553 | — | ||||||
| 3/4/23 | Judith Butler on US and world politics, art, feminism, gender-theory, non-violence, and many other things | Agon Hamza and Frank Ruda sit down with the philosopher Judith Butler, to discuss US politics, feminism, Marx, psychoanalysis, recent films, and a lot of other things. You can listen to our podcast here: https://anchor.fm/crisisandcritique If you like this and other episodes, please consider subscribing and supporting us at our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=71723553 | — | ||||||
| 2/6/23 | Alenka Zupančič on Antigone, Iran, Marx, and a lot of other things | Frank Ruda and Agon Hamza sit with the philosopher Alenka Zupančič, to discuss her latest book “Let Them Rot: Antigone’s Parallax”, her philosophical project, current events in Iran, the contemporary relevance of Marx, etc You can listen to our podcast here: https://anchor.fm/crisisandcritique | — | ||||||
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