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/

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/

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/

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

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/

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/  

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

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 

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  

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