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What are the crucial conflicts of our time? What hopes and wishes for a better future are expressed within these conflicts? The podcast Critical Theory in Context combines analysis of the present with perspectives on societal transformation. We host conversations with theorists and activists about social crises and the possibilities of their emancipatory overcoming.
Update frequency:
every 49 days
Average audio length:
67 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
24 episodes
since July 3, 2021
episodic
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Jacob Blumenfeld in conversation with Rahel Jaeggi and Christian Schmidt
Are we heading towards socialism or barbarism, or both? With Die Linke winning in Berlin and the AfD surging in the east, the question of liberation has become ever more urgent. In this episode, Jacob Blumenfeld speaks with Ra…
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Vergesellschaftung – das klingt für die einen nach demokratischer Kontrolle über Dinge, die alle etwas angehen. Für die anderen klingt es nach Enteignung und Sozialismus. Tatsächlich ist die Frage hoch aktuell: Im Juli 2026 hat die regierende Bundeskoalition angekündigt, Vergesellschaftungen auf La…
Jacob Blumenfeld in conversation with Robin Celikates
“Human beings make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances,” Marx wrote in 1852. But do human beings still make their own history, and if so, under what circumstances? That…
Die Erwärmung des Planeten stellt die Menschheit vor eine historisch nie gekannte, existenzielle Herausforderung. Der Historiker Dipesh Chakrabarty zieht daraus in den diesjährigen Benjamin-Lectures eine radikale Konsequenz: Es braucht ein umfassendes Umdenken, das nicht nur die politische und ökon…
Jacob Blumenfeld in conversation with Rahel Jaeggi and Robin Celikates
What time is it? What world are we living in? Is it continuous with the world of the 19th and 20th centuries, or has there been a radical break? This episode is devoted to these questions, specifically in relation to the meaning…
In ihrem neuesten Buch “Zerstörungslust. Elemente des demokratischen Faschismus“ widmen sich Carolin Amlinger und Oliver Nachtwey dem aktuellen Erstarken faschistischer Bewegungen. Warum wenden sich so viele Menschen Trump, Musk oder der AfD zu? Grund sei die Blockade liberaler Demokratien, die ihr…
Introduced by Jacob Blumenfeld and Robin Celikates
Show notes:
Critique of AI event
Matteo Pasquinelli
https://www.versobooks.com/products/735-the-eye-of-the-master
https://www.matteopasquinelli.com/
Anna-Verena Nosthoff
https://www.criticaldatalab.org/anna-verena-nosthoff
https://www.suhrkamp.de…
Daniel Loick. Die Überlegenheit der Unterlegenen. Eine Theorie der Gegengemeinschaften. Suhrkamp 2024.
Mit besonderem Dank an Lane Hots (Aufnahme, Schnitt, redaktionelle Betreuung, Mixing, Mastering).
Jacob Blumenfeld in conversation with Aaron Benanav
The Grounds of Planning: Rationality, Pseudorationality, and Critique
Aaron Benanav, “Beyond Capitalism—1: Groundwork for a Multi-Criterial Economy”
Aaron Benanav, “Beyond Capitalism—2: Institutions for a Multi-Criterial Economy” https://newle…
Jacob Blumenfeld in conversation with John O’Neill, introduced by Rahel Jaeggi
The Grounds of Planning: Rationality, Pseudorationality, and Critique
John O’Neill, “Who Won the Socialist Calculation Debate?”
11 Theses on Needs
The Socialization Debate
Von der Vergesellschaftung zur Planung und …
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