Todd McGowan on perversion, comedy, Hegel, alienation... and a lot 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/

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

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

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

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

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