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WB202: The Critical Inquiry PodcastCI since 1978: Celebrating Tom Mitchell’s EditorshipTo 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 their experiences of working with W. J. T. Mitchell at the journal. To read his farewell editorial note, see the Summer 2020 issue of Critical Inquiry.
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2020-07-2445 min
VIEW to the U: An eye on UTM academic communityJohn Paul RiccoThe value of Art and times of social upheaval
In this episode Professor John Paul Ricco from UofT Mississauga’s Department of Visual Studies talks about his art and art history research, and also about how past health crises have shaped art movements. We also talk about some of the ways in which this current pandemic may influence artists now and in creations to come, and what kinds of things John Paul is doing in this time of solitude.
John Paul is an art historian and queer theorist whose interdisciplinary research, teaching and writing draws connections between late-twentieth-century and contemporary ar...
2020-04-2432 min
Clitical ThoughtPandemaniaGreeting Quaran-queens! Join us as we take you through our quaran-tines (quarantine + routines lmfaooo) before continuing with a clitical discussion of the woman of the moment - COVID19! We ask all the chill questions… like who deserves to live? Is the human experience just for those that contribute to the economy? And since when does balsamic vinegar go off, and can it comatose you? (Asking for a friend).Slavoj Zizek - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HabyJi66l0w&list=WL&index=31&t=0sTrump’s endorsement of false coronavirus medication:https://www.theg...
2020-03-2758 minWB202: The Critical Inquiry PodcastTales of the 1940s: A Conversation between Werner Sollors and Françoise MeltzerCoeditor 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.
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2019-12-1900 min
WB202: The Critical Inquiry PodcastAll That Heaven Allows: Robert Pippin and Tom Gunning Discuss the Work of Douglas SirkRobert 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.
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2019-07-1800 minWB202: The Critical Inquiry PodcastBruno Latour and Dipesh Chakrabarty: Geopolitics and the “Facts” of Climate ChangeBruno 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 So Hard to Understand” appeared in the Spring 2019 issue of Critical Inquiry. Chakrabarty’s “The Planet: An Emergent Humanist Category” is forthcoming in Autumn 2019.
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2019-04-111h 07WB202: The Critical Inquiry PodcastCatherine Malabou on Life: A Critical Inquiry InterviewCatherine 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 (2017), and her work in progress.
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2019-01-2900 min
WB202: The Critical Inquiry PodcastDavidson and His Interlocutors, Part 2: An Interview with Arnold I. DavidsonCoeditor 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 a two-part interview.
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2019-01-1522 minWB202: The Critical Inquiry PodcastDavidson and His Interlocutors, Part 1: An Interview with Arnold I. DavidsonCoeditor 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 Inquiry. This is the first part of a two-part interview.
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2019-01-0800 minWB202: The Critical Inquiry PodcastDipesh Chakrabarty: Looking Back to “The Climate of History: Four Theses”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 Climate of History: Four Theses” (Winter 2009).
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2018-12-0446 minWB202: The Critical Inquiry PodcastSaidiya Hartman: An Interview with Adrienne Brown and Adom GetachewAdrienne 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 author of Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth Century America (1997) and Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route (2007). Her University of Chicago seminar last spring examined the sociological, literary, and historical work of W. E. B. Du Bois from The Philadelphia Negro (1899) to Dusk of Dawn (1940).
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2018-11-2000 minWB202: The Critical Inquiry PodcastExperiments in Critical Practice: Coeditor Lauren Berlant Interviews Conference ParticipantsLauren Berlant asks participants of “The Soup Is On” about their engagement with theory and optimism for what writing can do. The June 2018 conference launched Berlant and Katie Stewart’s The Hundreds (2018), their forthcoming experiment in form, attention, and generative worlding. Apart from Stewart and Berlant, every conference experimenter wrote an index for the book, reorganizing it in their own register and mode. Their collaborative effort aspires to jumpstart a community conversation about what critical thinking can look like, sound like, and be for.
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2018-11-0600 minWB202: The Critical Inquiry PodcastDefining the Digital: Patrick Jagoda Interviews Alexander GallowayExecutive Editor Patrick Jagoda interviews Alexander Galloway about his past and current work. To read Galloway’s Winter 2013 Critical Inquiry essay, visit our website. https://critinq.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/galloway_podcast.mp3
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2018-10-2300 minWB202: The Critical Inquiry PodcastThe Birth of Critical Inquiry: An Interview with W.J.T MitchellEditor W. J. T. Mitchell shares his story about the journal’s beginnings and early history. https://critinq.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/ci_podcast1.mp3
2018-10-0900 min