Critical Inquiry is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal devoted to the best critical thought in the arts and humanities. Founded in 1974, it has been called “one of the best known and most influential journals in the world” (Chicago Tribune) and “academe’s most prestigious theory journal” (New York Times). WB202 expands the mission of the journal with a new platform for emerging and established scholars, critics, and artists to discuss the critical concerns of the past, present, and ...
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Video Games: A Discussion with Patrick Jagoda, Soraya Murray, and Noah Wardrip-Fruin
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This June, Executive Editor Patrick Jagoda met with Soraya Murray, associate professor in the Film and Digital Media Department at UCSC, and Noah Wardrip-Fruin, professor in the Computational Media Department of UCSC, to discuss video games and critical theory. Their triptych, “Conceptual Games, or the Language of Video Games,” was published in the…
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CI since 1978: Celebrating Tom Mitchell’s Editorship
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To 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 f…
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Tales of the 1940s: A Conversation between Werner Sollors and Françoise Meltzer
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Coeditor 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. https://critinq.files.wordpress.com/2019/12/sollors_podcast-1.mp3 You can also listen and subs…
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All That Heaven Allows: Robert Pippin and Tom Gunning Discuss the Work of Douglas Sirk
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Robert 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. https://critinq.files.wordpress.com/2019/07/pippin_podcast.mp3 You can also listen and subscribe to WB202 at: iTunes Google Play Tune…
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Bruno Latour and Dipesh Chakrabarty: Geopolitics and the “Facts” of Climate Change
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Bruno 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 Plane…
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Catherine Malabou on Life: A Critical Inquiry Interview
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Catherine 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. https://critinq.files.wordpress.com/2019/01/malabou_podcast.mp3 Yo…
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Davidson and His Interlocutors, Part 2: An Interview with Arnold I. Davidson
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Coeditor 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. https://critinq.files.wordpress.com/2019/01/arnold2_podcast.mp3 You can a…
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Davidson and His Interlocutors, Part 1: An Interview with Arnold I. Davidson
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Coeditor 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. https://critinq.…
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Dipesh Chakrabarty: Looking Back to “The Climate of History: Four Theses”
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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). https://critinq.files.wordpress.com/2018/12/chakrabarty_pod…
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Saidiya Hartman: An Interview with Adrienne Brown and Adom Getachew
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Adrienne 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) a…
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Experiments in Critical Practice: Coeditor Lauren Berlant Interviews Conference Participants
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Lauren 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…
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Defining the Digital: Patrick Jagoda Interviews Alexander Galloway
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The Birth of Critical Inquiry: An Interview with W.J.T Mitchell
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Editor W. J. T. Mitchell shares his story about the journal’s beginnings and early history. https://critinq.files.wordpress.com/2018/10/ci_podcast1.mp3Oleh critinq
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