Video Games: A Discussion with Patrick Jagoda, Soraya Murray, and Noah Wardrip-Fruin
This June, Executive Editor Patrick Jagoda met with Soraya Murray, associate professor in the Film and Digital Media Department at UCSC, and...
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WB202: The Critical Inquiry Podcast
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 an...
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CI since 1978: Celebrating Tom Mitchell’s Editorship
To celebrate his forty-two years as the editor of Critical Inquiry, we asked past and present contributors and editors Homi Bhabha (0:55), F...
Tales of the 1940s: A Conversation between Werner Sollors and Françoise Meltzer
Coeditor Françoise Meltzer and Werner Sollors discuss Sollors’s The Temptation of Despair: Tales of the 1940s (2014). Read SollorsR...
All That Heaven Allows: Robert Pippin and Tom Gunning Discuss the Work of Douglas Sirk
Robert Pippin and Tom Gunning discuss Douglass Sirk’s film All That Heaven Allows (1955). Pippin’s “Love and Class in Doug...
Bruno Latour and Dipesh Chakrabarty: Geopolitics and the “Facts” of Climate Change
Bruno Latour and Dipesh Chakrabarty visited WB202 to discuss new “questions of concern” and the fight over “facts” a...
Catherine Malabou on Life: A Critical Inquiry Interview
Catherine Malabou stopped by the office of Critical Inquiry for a short and informal audio interview during her visit to the University of C...
Davidson and His Interlocutors, Part 2: An Interview with Arnold I. Davidson
Coeditor Richard Neer interviews Arnold Davidson about, among other things, his writing on music. This interview expands on the work feature...
Davidson and His Interlocutors, Part 1: An Interview with Arnold I. Davidson
Coeditor Richard Neer interviews Arnold Davidson about the history of his scholarship and research (including a fortuitous encounter with Mi...
Dipesh 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, th...
Saidiya Hartman: An Interview with Adrienne Brown and Adom Getachew
Adrienne Brown and Adom Getachew met with Saidiya Hartman in the offices of Critical Inquiry to discuss the varieties of unfreedom that Hart...
Experiments in Critical Practice: Coeditor Lauren Berlant Interviews Conference Participants
Lauren Berlant asks participants of “The Soup Is On” about their engagement with theory and optimism for what writing can do. Th...
Defining the Digital: Patrick Jagoda Interviews Alexander Galloway
Executive Editor Patrick Jagoda interviews Alexander Galloway about his past and current work. To read Galloway's Winter 2013 Critical Inqui...
The Birth of Critical Inquiry: An Interview with W.J.T Mitchell
Editor W. J. T. Mitchell shares his story about the journal’s beginnings and early history.