
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.
| Publishes | Monthly | Episodes | 20 | Founded | 5 years ago |
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| Number of Listeners | Categories | Social SciencesScienceSociety & Culture | |||

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 q... more
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? Grun... more
Introduced by Jacob Blumenfeld and Robin Celikates
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Daniel Loick. Die Überlegenheit der Unterlegenen. Eine Theorie der Gegengemeinschaften. Suhrkamp 2024.
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A roundtable and expert-led discussions explore how critical theory engages with emerging technologies, political economy, and social organization. Topics across recent episodes center on artificial intelligence as an ideological and infrastructural force, theories of revolutionary subjectivity, and proposals for democratic planning and emancipatory futures. Guests bring perspectives from philosophy, ethics of digitalization, labor analysis, and political theory to critique technocracy, platform capitalism, and state or communal responses, often tying debates to issues of labor, inclusion, and governance. The conversations tend to connect dense theoretical frameworks with practical questions about resistance, policy reform, education, and g... more
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Recent guests on Critical Theory in Context include:
1. Matteo Pasquinelli
2. Anna-Verena Nosthoff
3. Roland Meyer
4. Rainer Mühlhoff
5. Rahel Jaeggi
6. Thomas Seibert
7. Daniel Loick
8. Aaron Benanav
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