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Crisis and Critique 27 Episodes Jun 9, 2026

Crisis and Critique is a journal of political thought and philosophy, appearing twice a year. The podcast serves as an extension of the journal, not reproducing its content but engaging with philosophical perspectives on current events. It invites guests from diverse practices to discuss and reflect on topics outside of philosophy.

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Thomas Hertog on Stephen Hawking, cosmology, Big Bang, history and other things. Jun 9, 2026 00:59:50 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 list

Sianne Ngai on ugly thoughts, ugly feeling, aesthetic categories, gimmick in capitalism, and more May 8, 2026 01:37:32 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 subscribin

Kim Stanley Robinson on his work, utopic realism, the future of Mars, Fredric Jameson… and so on. Mar 16, 2026 01:20:42 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 cons

Avital Ronell on America, loser sons, Europe, stupidity and more Jan 20, 2026 01:23:32 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 ou

Joshua Oppenheimer on his movies, Tilda Swinton in "The End", the politics of movie making, and more Nov 15, 2025 01:26:07 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

Jean-Jacques Lecercle on language, politics, Chomsky, Frankenstein, and related matters. Nov 4, 2025 01:36:17 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 l

Jean-Pierre Dupuy on René Girard, doomsaying, Borges, metaphysics of time… and a lot more! Sep 25, 2025 01:43:42 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

Special: Žižek on “The Oeuvre of Slavoj Žižek” Aug 31, 2025 00:41:11 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 y

Todd McGowan on perversion, comedy, Hegel, alienation... and a lot more Jun 16, 2025 01:26:30 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 suppor

Adam Tooze on approaching history, polycrisis, the contemporary USA, Batman… and many other things May 19, 2025 01:35:34 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:

Rebecca Comay on Persistence, Dialectics, Dramaturgy, “Bad Mothers” ... and many other things! Apr 4, 2025 01:33:45 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.p

Wolfgang Streeck on Trump, fascism, Europe, the left, the end of capitalism… and a lot more! Feb 6, 2025 01:10:32 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 su

Darian Leader on jouissance, hands, philosophy, Mona Lisa, art, obscenity... and a lot more Jan 16, 2025 01:18:43 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

Michael Heinrich on the election Trump, cautious biographies, Marx, ecology, capitalism and critique Nov 6, 2024 01:58:15 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 suppor

Yanis Varoufakis on the US elections, Techno-Feudalism, the role of the family.. and other things Sep 8, 2024 01:14:39 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, p

Mladen Dolar on the limits of psychoanalysis, Marx and Hegel, Beckett, theatre/opera… and a lot more May 29, 2024 01:36:49 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/crisisandcritiq

Silvia Federici on feminism, primitive accumulation, bodies, magic, dance… and (no) Taylor Swift Apr 24, 2024 01:07:12 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 Patreo

Catherine Malabou on the Clitoris, AI, Anarchism, Hegel, Marx… and much more! Mar 6, 2024 01:12:34 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 support

Cornel West on American Politics, Catastrophe, Messy Materialism, Blues, Christianity and Coltrane. Jan 9, 2024 01:10:35 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 oth

Slavoj Žižek on Marx, Hegel, Politics, Films, Burgers and Hot Dogs… and a lot more! Dec 14, 2023 01:47:20 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.pat

Robert B. Pippin on Politics Today, Hegel, Heidegger, Cinema....and more! Nov 10, 2023 01:48:45 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

Jacques Rancière on aesthetics, art, movies, ecology, and more. Part II Apr 26, 2023 01:27:53 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

Jacques Rancière on May ‘68, philosophy, labour, revolts, and much more. Part One Apr 13, 2023 01:31:22 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 podcas

Judith Butler on US and world politics, art, feminism, gender-theory, non-violence, and many other things Mar 4, 2023 01:29:55 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

Alenka Zupančič on Antigone, Iran, Marx, and a lot of other things Feb 6, 2023 01:14:40 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

Étienne Balibar on philosophy, Althusser, Ukraine, internationalism, and many other things Nov 10, 2022 02:03:28 Agon Hamza and Frank Ruda sit with the philosopher Étienne Balibar, to discuss his philosophical project, current events in the world and other related matters.

Sebastian Wolff (Kellermensch) on music, song writing, critique, and almost all other things Mar 28, 2022 00:56:21 In the first and launching episode of the podcast of Crisis and Critique, Agon Hamza and Frank Ruda sit with Sebastian Wolff, the singer and guitarist of the Danish rock band, Kellermensch.

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