Recent interviews​

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• Simon joins Rai Cultura to discuss suicide and tragedy (07/20/2022)

• Simon joins Jorge Fontevecchia of Perfil (02/11/2022) [pdf link here]

• Simon joins taNea (12/21/2021)

• LiFO's Tina Mandilara interviews Simon to discuss the Greek translation of Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us (11/20/2021)

• Simon joins New Philosopher to being outside yourself, life, and play (10/11/2021)

• Simon joins MingPao Daily News to discuss tragedy, literature, and more (03/26/2021) [English link here]

• Simon joins The Showdown to discuss waking, reading, and Podcasts (04/03/2021)

• Book/Shop interviews Simon to discuss books, teaching, and other things (01/31/2021)

• Simon joins Katherimini to discuss the pandemic in 2021 (01/11/2021)

• Simon discussion tragedy in Information (12/05/2020)

• Simon and others join The New Yorker to discuss K-POP (12/03/2020)

• David Rutledge of ABC's The Philosopher's Zone interviews Simon to discuss Nietzsche and nihilism (10/25/2020)

• Folha de São Paulo interviews Simon to dicuss the pandemic, Bolsonaro, and Trump (05/16/2020)

• Simon joins Núvol to discuss football (05/13/2020) 

• El País interviews Simon on death (05/10/2020)

• Simon joins Katherimini to discuss the pandemic (05/05/2020)

• El Mundo interviews Simon concerning the pandemic (05/04/2020)

• Peter Catapano and Simon discuss whether we can laugh yet about Covid-19 in The New York Times? (04/27/2020)

• Simon speaks to EFE about football (04/27/2020)

• El Confidencial interviews Simon to discuss the pandemic and tragedy (04/22/2020)

• Filosofía&Co interviews Simon to discuss coronavirus (04/07/2020)

• Simon joins the podcast At a Distance to discuss coronavirus and the contemporar world through punk, Greek tragedy, and humor (04/06/2020)

• Kimberly Connerton interviews Simon for the International Journal of Education in Architecture and Design (March 2020)

• Simon discusses loneliness in the Feburary-March issue of Philosophie Magazin

• Simon discusses Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us with Keith Ansell-Pearson and Daniele Lorenzini at the University of Warwick (10/15/2019)

• Simon discusses football in Tiempo Argentino (10/13/2019)

• The National Herald and Simon discuss the renewal of the Onasis Foundation Grant to the New School for Social Research's Philosophy Department for Ancient Philosophy (10/2/2019)

• Quartz discusses with Simon the Bowie sing-along at the Night of Philosophy (10/1/2019)

• Simon discusses football and time in RTÉ 

• Los Angeles Review of Books interviews Simon (4/22/2019)

• Simon speaks about coming into philosophy in What is it like to be a philosopher? (4/12/2019)

• Five Books' Charles J. Styles interviews Simon and asks for the 5 best books on Continental Philosophy

• Simon discusses suicide in Βιβλιοδρόμιο (11/17-18/2018)

• Simon speaks to La Vanguardia about football and politics (12/3/2018)

• In Núvol, Simon discusses football, religion, and politics (11/29/2018)

• Simon discusses his work in El Mundo (11/27/2018)

• Simon discusses Heidegger, Franz Beckenbauer, and football in Ara (11/20/2018)

• Simon joins ESPN to discuss the World Cup, including France's win and England's performance plus what to expect from Qatar 2022

• Skip to 12:34 on this recent episode of Studio 2 on NRK to hear Simon speak to as to why Football is memory, history, class, belonging, and national feeling (6/30/2018)

• Speaking to El Periódico, Simon explains why football is a socialist sport (6/19/2018)

• Simon speaks to Kultur & Medier as well as Kultur og Ideer about his philosophy of football (6/14/2018)

• Simon speaks to Men's Health about 'What We Think About When We Think About Football' (6/5/2018)

• On DR2 Dagen Simon elaborates on his new book 'What We Think About When We Think About Football' (5/26/2018)

• Simon joins DRtv to discuss how disappointment is an integral part of football and how the beautiful game is about learning to accept failure (5/26/2018)

• Simon speaks to Letras Libres on the difficulty of finding idealism in football (4/30/2018)

• Simon speaks to Sport about What We Think About When We Think About Football and the evolution of Liverpool FC (4/24/2018)

• Simon speaks to Information about how the entire human comedy is played out in football. (1/10/2018)

• Simon speaks to The New School's Research Matters about his new book What We Think About When We Think About Soccer (12/14/2017)

• Simon provides A Different Take On Soccer, And Being A Sports Fan to NPR Milwaukee (12/4/2017)

• Jeremy Schaap interviews Simon on his new book, What We Think About When We Think About Football, on ESPN's podcast The Sporting Life (11/25/2017).

• Simon reveals his top five books on continental philosophy (10/20/2017)

• Andrew Gallix interviews Simon in an exclusive extract from Punk is Dead: Modernity Killed Every Night. (10/11/2017)

• Simon talks about a 'poetics of football' with Vice while discussing his new book, What We Think About When We Think About Football (10/9/2017)

• In an interview with LiFO, Simon speaks to how ancient Greek tragedy expresses our modern condition (still). (7/8/2017)

• Simon speaks to Marie Claire about suicide. (7/30/2017) 

• Simon joins Russell Brand in episode 16 of Under the Skin, a podcast about what's beneath the surface.  They discuss why philosophy is more important than ever.  (06/22/2017)  

• Simon Critchley discusses ancient Greek philosophy at the The Huffington Post in Greece. (03/23/2017)

• In the Los Angeles Review of Books, Critchley discusses David Bowie's legacy. (03/16/2017)

• Critchley discusses Trump in an interview with Chinese publication The Paper. (02/11/2017)

• An interview with Critchley about David Bowie appears at Domenical. (01/15/2017)

• Critchley discusses David Bowie it the Italian publication Il Fatto Quotidiano. (01/11/2017)

• At Parse Journal, Critchley discusses the nature of time. (11/23/2016)

• At The Scofield, Critchley discusses his recent thinking on suicide, David Bowie, and more. (Spring 2016)

• Critchley discusses David Bowie at the Danish website Kultur. (05/29/2016)

• Critchley discusses David Bowie at the Danish magazine Politiken. (05/27/2016) 

• CounterText reissues Simon Critchley's 2009 discussion with John Corby. (03/2016) 

• At The Stone, Simon Critchley and Brad Evans discuss notions of violence. (03/14/2016)

• At HKRB, Simon Critchley discusses Notes on Suicide. (03/09/2016)

• Simon Critchley and Alexis Dianda discuss Emmanuel Levinas at Four by Three Magazine. (02/28/2016)

• At Wreck Park, Critchley discusses the ways in which philosophy and music meet. (02/02/2016)

• At Guernica, Simon Critchley discusses David Bowie. (01/21/2016)

• "Keeping Up With a Running Man: Simon Critchley on David Bowie" appears at BLOUINARTINFO. (01/13/2016)

• At Politico, Simon Critchley discusses David Bowie's politics. (01/13/2016)

• At Review 31, Simon Critchley discusses Notes on Suicide. 

• Simon Critchley talks with VICE about the history and meaning of suicide and suicide notes. (11/12/15)

• At Art Forum, Simon Critchley discusses Antigone with poet Anne Carson and choreographer Trajal Harrell. (09/22/15)

• Simon Critchley discusses "evil" in an interview at De Verdieping Trouw. (07/25/15)

• Simon Critchley and William Davies, author of The Happiness Industry: How the Government and Big Business Sold us Well-Being, discuss the idea of happiness on CSPAN's Book TV. (06/05/15)

• The European Union has a deficit of populism. An interview with Simon Critchley at POPULISMUS. (04/2015)

• Forgetting. Claire Hazelton in interview with Critchley on ‘Memory Theatre’. Published in issue 5 of Bare Fiction. (03/05/2015)

• Pop Quiz: Simon Critchley on The Jinx, published in Artforum (04/01/2015)

• Writing outside philosophy: an interview with Simon Critchley by Andrew Gallix, published on 3 AM Magazine (12/03/2014)

• Cult of Memory: Simon Critchley Interviewed. Published on the Quietus: Tome on the range. (11/02/2014)

• No Exit for Derrida. Interview by Jeremy Butman, published on the LARB. (10/09/2014)

• Random Ultra-Violence: Simon Critchley On David Bowie. Interview and excerpt from Bowie posted on The Quietus. (10/06/14)

• The Man Who Sold the Underworld. Published in Interview Magazine. (09/25/2014)

• Let’s debate: A David Bowie critic and an obsessive battle over maddening brilliance of “Lodger”, Critchley in conversation with Rick Moody on Bowie's Lodger album published on Salon (09/20/2014)

• 'Full Stop' interview reposted on Huffington Post (09/19/14)

• Interview on the Bowie book by Tyler Malone on 'Full Stop' (09/17/14)

• 'Dar fe de la politíca' An interview with Simon Critchley by Ramón de Castillo, posted on Revista Minerva

• Interview with Critchley on his book Bowie on Bowie Wonderworld (09/11/14)

• "Simon Critchley: 'Es la historia y no la filosofía la mejor aliada de la política'" Interview in La Nacion (07/27/14)

• 'Hamlet's Nothings', interview published on Berfrois, with Russel Bennetts and Daniel Tutt (06/13/14)

• Interview with Claire Richard: N’oublie pas que tu vas mourir… de rire : interview avec Simon Critchley (12/06/13)

• Inteview for Full Stop with Taylor Malone (10/29/13)

• Interview on the Art page of Montenegrin Daily Vijesti (07/27/13)

• Interview in the Guardian with Frederico Campagna about Infinitely Demanding

• Free Shakespeare Plays for Philosophers & Psychoanalysts: An interview with SImon Critchley and Jamieson Webster in the Media Bistro on The Hamlet Doctrine

• Bringing Philosophy to Life: A Conversation with Prof. Simon Critchley featured in The National Herald (December 1-7, 2012 issue), inspired by Simon Critchley's Truth and Lies series at BAM

• Interview with The White Review on The Tragic and Its Limits.

• A recent interview with Critchley by e-flux on the notion of active and passive nihilism.

• An interview in Religious Dispatches by Beatrice Marovitch (August 15, 2012)

• An interview by Andrew Hines at Figure/Ground Communication (July 29, 2012)

• Critchley discusses philosophers, violence, humor, and tragedy at Naked Punch. (04/16/2012)

• Pursuing Impossible Objects An interview by John Douglas Millar for Monthly Review.

• On Philosophers, Violence, Humour & Tragedy An interview by Qalandar Bux Memon and Asif Akhtar for Naked Punch.

• Tragedy, Rage, Grief and Being an Arsehole An interview by Dave Ronalds for Parallax.

• Exhausted States Concluding their three-part exchange for Mute, artist Alfredo Jaar and philosopher Simon Critchley contemplate how to keep on, artistically and politically, in the face of the spectacular violence that washed-up liberal democracy meets with daily indifference. This exchange was convened by David Morris.

• Creating Interstices: On Ethics, Politics, and Curatorship Simon Critchley discusses aesthetics, nihilism, and ethical fidelity with Miguel Á. Hernández-Navarro in Manifesta Journal, V.12

• Resisting the Meaningless Simon Critchley talks power, politics, and the problem of nihilism with Tom Cutterham for Cherwell.org

• Geluk wordt overschat "Happiness is Overrated": Simon Critchley speaks with Peter Giesen for De Volkskrant in the Netherlands.

• The Last Word: Critchley on Cattelan An interview with Critchley on Maurizio Cattelan’s retrospective at the Guggenheim.

• My Daily Read for The Chronicle of Higher Education.

• An Interview on The Faith of the Faithless with Stir to Action.

• The Ethics of Discomfort John Douglas Millar on art and politics according to Simon Critchley for Art Monthly.

• "월가 시위는 아나키즘의 가능성 보여준 사례" An interview with the Korean newspaper Hankookilbo.

• In 2009 Simon Critchley was interviewed along with Giuseppe Mazzotta and Alexander Nehamas by Costica Bradatan which was part of a project called "Of Poets and Thinkers. A Conversation on Philosophy, Literature, and the Rebuilding of the World." It was published in The European Legacy (London: Routledge), 14.5 (August 2009), pp. 519-534. It was translated into Portuguese by Djeissom Silva Ribeiro and into Spanish by Moris Polanco (both in 2011). In addition the text was translated into Bulgarian by Lyubomira Konstantinova: “За поети и мислители: разговор за философия, литература и за възстановяването на света” in Философски Алтернативи, 20:2 (2011), pp. 45-59 and into Romanian by Mona Mamulea: “Despre gânditori şi poeţi. Un dialog cu privire la filosofie, literatură şi reclădirea lumii” in Secolul 21, No. 7-12 (2009) (Bucharest, Romania), pp. 18-39.