20 Best Critical Theory Podcasts

1. Why Theory

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Why Theory brings continental philosophy and psychoanalytic theory together to examine cultural phenomena.
Hosts Todd McGowan, Ryan Engley
Producer/Network Why Theory
Email ****@uvm.edu
Estimated Monthly Listeners 50k-250k
Apple Rating 4.8/5Apple Reviews 1.1K Avg Length 80 min Format Long form Since Oct 2017 Get Email Contact Get access to full database of 2.7M podcastsCreate podcast lists, export in spreadsheet or CSV file with email contacts and start your podcast outreach in minutes.Sign Up for Free with Email Continue with Google

2. Theory & Philosophy

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Welcome! My name's David Guignion and I distill complicated philosophical and theoretical ideas for wide audiences. While ideas are important to help us understand the world, it is even more important to put ideas into action. Some of this channel's key theoretical and pragmatic influences include, but are not limited to, Marxism, Decolonialization, Feminism, Gender and Queer theory, and Critical Race Theory...more Host David Guignion
Email ****@gmail.com
Estimated Monthly Listeners 50k-250k
Recent Guests Dr. Alison Posey, Alexandre Baril
Apple Rating 4.6/5Apple Reviews 934Instagram 67.2K Avg Length 58 min Format Long form Since Aug 2019 Video Podcast YouTube
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3. Politics Theory Other

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A podcast on radical politics, critical theory, and history. Hosted by Alex Doherty.Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/poltheoryotherContact: ****@gmail.com
Host Alex Doherty
Producer/Network Politics Theory Other
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Estimated Monthly Listeners 50k-250k
Recent Guests James Schneider, Adam Hanieh +6 more
Apple Rating 4.8/5Apple Reviews 788Facebook 2.3KTwitter 18.6K Avg Length 43 min Format Long form Since Apr 2018 Get Email Contact

4. What's Left of Philosophy

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In What's Left of Philosophy Gil Morejón (@gdmorejon), Lillian Cicerchia (@lilcicerch), Owen Glyn-Williams (@oglynwil), and William Paris (@williammparis) discuss philosophy's radical histories and contemporary political theory. Philosophy isn't dead, but what's left? Support us at patreon.com/leftofphilosophymore Hosts Lillian Cicerchia, Owen Glyn-Williams, Gil Moreju00f3n, William Paris
Producer/Network Lillian Cicerchia, Owen Glyn-Williams, Gil Morejón, and William Paris
Email ****@gmail.com
Estimated Monthly Listeners 10k-50k
Recent Guests Glen Coulthard, Brandon Terry +1 more
Apple Rating 4.7/5Apple Reviews 522Twitter 13.7KInstagram 652 Avg Length 39 min Format Medium form Since Dec 2020 Get Email Contact

5. Acid Horizon

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Emerging from affinities with post-structuralism, abolitionism, biopolitics, communism, critical metaphysics, critical mysticism, and ontological anarchy, Acid Horizon is a philosophy and theory podcast committed to thought in motion and political struggle. While these are our grounding currents, each episode opens out onto a wider constellation: ethics, politics, phenomenology, decolonial thought, queer theory, post-psychoanalysis, disability/crip theory, anarchism, Marxism, feminism, and analyses of the emergence of the new right...more Hosts Adam C. Jones, Craig, Will, Matt
Producer/Network Acid Horizon
Email ****@gmail.com
Estimated Monthly Listeners 10k-50k
Recent Guests A.J.A. Woods, Hannah Smart +26 more
Apple Rating 4.5/5Apple Reviews 427Twitter 34.8KInstagram 19.1K Avg Length 50 min Format Long form Since May 2020 Get Email Contact

6. PlasticPills Critical Theory & Philosophy

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The Pill Pod is hosted by a group of PhDs offering their irreverent (and unsolicited) takes on critical theory, philosophy, culture, and politics.
Hosts Victor Bruzzone, Matt McManus
Producer/Network Plasticpills
Email ****@protonmail.com
Estimated Monthly Listeners 10k-50k
Recent Guests Samantha Fulnecky, Richard Ledes +3 more
Apple Rating 4.6/5Apple Reviews 243Twitter 6KInstagram 13.9K Avg Length 66 min Format Long form Since Mar 2020 Get Email Contact

7. The Labyrinth: critical theory, culture, and politics

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exploring the simulated enigma brendenslabyrinth.substack.com
Host Brenden
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Estimated Monthly Listeners 1k-10k
Recent Guest Nick Fuentes
Apple Rating 4.6/5Apple Reviews 72 Avg Length 35 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

8. High Theory

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High Theory is a produced and edited by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu, two tired academics trying to save critique from itself, along with two amazing collaborators, Júlia Irion Martins and Nathan Kim. In this podcast, we get high on the substance of theory, and we try to explain difficult ideas from the academy with irreverence. You can learn more about us on our website, or find us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.more Hosts Kim Adams, Saronik Bosu
Producer/Network High Theory
Email ****@gmail.com
Estimated Monthly Listeners 1k-10k
Recent Guests Jason Schneiderman, Nasser Mufti +7 more
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 43Twitter 1.4KInstagram 258 Avg Length 19 min Format Short form Get Email Contact

9. Speaking Body

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From the clinic to culture, where psychoanalysis meets the everyday.
Host Neil Gorman
Producer/Network [S][J][P]
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Estimated Monthly Listeners 1k-10k
Apple Rating 4.8/5Apple Reviews 35Twitter 636 Avg Length 60 min Format Long form Since Dec 2018 Get Email Contact

10. Critical Theory in Context

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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.more Hosts Rahel Jaeggi, Robin Celikates, Jacob Blumenfeld
Producer/Network Center for Humanities and Social Change in Berlin
Email ****@hu-berlin.de
Estimated Monthly Listeners 1k-10k
Recent Guests Matteo Pasquinelli, Anna-Verena Nosthoff +4 more
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 16 Avg Length 69 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

11. The Epoch Philosophy Podcast

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A podcast and YouTube channel attempting to make philosophy, critical theory, art, and technology a little easier to understand.Find new podcasts here along with our full-length YouTube videos in podcast form.more Producer/Network Epoch Philosophy
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Estimated Monthly Listeners 100-1k
Recent Guests Suchir Balaji, David Graeber +1 more
Apple Rating 4.8/5Apple Reviews 14 Avg Length 29 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

12. New Books in Critical Theory

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Interviews with Scholars of Critical Theory about their New BooksSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/critical-theory
Host Morteza Hajizadeh
Producer/Network Marshall Poe
Email ****@gmail.com
Estimated Monthly Listeners 10k-50k
Recent Guests Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, Dr. Julia Bowes +46 more
Apple Rating 3.9/5Apple Reviews 329Facebook 9.2KTwitter 15.7K Avg Length 60 min Format Long form Since Dec 2008 Get Email Contact

13. The Telos Press Podcast

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Since 1968, the quarterly journal Telos has served as the definitive international forum for discussions of political, social, and cultural change. Readers from around the globe turn to Telos to engage with the sharpest minds in politics, philosophy, and critical theory, and to discover emerging theoretical analyses of the pivotal issues of the day. Don't miss a single issue—subscribe to Telos today at the Telos Press website, www.telospress.com.more Host David Pan
Producer/Network Telos Press
Email ****@davidpanforcongress.com
Estimated Monthly Listeners 100-1k
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 8Facebook 2.2KTwitter 2.3KInstagram 200 Avg Length 69 min Format Long form Since Sep 2020 Get Email Contact

14. Conversations in Atlantic Theory

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These conversations explore the cultural, political, and philosophical traditions of the Atlantic world, ranging from European critical theory to the black Atlantic to sites of indigenous resistance and self-articulation, as well as the complex geography of thinking between traditions, inside traditions, and from positions of insurgency, critique, and counternarrative.more Producer/Network Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy
Estimated Monthly Listeners 100-1k
Recent Guests Dr. Chelsi West Ohueri, Dr. Samuele Collu +11 more
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 4 Avg Length 57 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

15. Unmarked Exits

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The ideas that shape how you think, work, and consume weren't accidents. They were designed.Each episode unpacks one essential text from critical theory, philosophy, fiction, and media studies that reveals how power really operates. No jargon. No academic gatekeeping. Just genuine inquiry into the forces shaping modern life.We're exploring thinkers like Guy Debord, Michel Foucault, Naomi Klein, and Mark Fisher alongside fiction from Ursula K. Le Guin, Kurt Vonnegut, and Octavia Butler. Some of these works are decades old...more Email ****@gmail.com
Apple Rating 1/5Apple Reviews 1 Avg Length 47 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

16. Critique of the Podcast Form

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Critique of the Podcast Form is a bi-weekly podcast by the Critical Theory Working Group about Critical Theory, socialism, philosophy, Marxism, social theory, and everything in between. New episodes featuring the rotating cast of hosts and guests are posted every other Thursday. Visit https://ctwgwebsite.github.io/ for writing and updates.more Producer/Network Critical Theory Working Group
Estimated Monthly Listeners 100-1k
Recent Guests J. E., J.E. Morain +2 more
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 7 Avg Length 78 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

17. Blasting Theory

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Blasting Theory is a podcast exploring the intersections of philosophy, politics, and culture — where critical theory meets the noise of the modern world. Each episode dissects thinkers, movements, and media through a lens that's part Frankfurt School seminar, part punk zine. more Get Email Contact

18. Always Already Podcast, a critical theory podcast

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Tune in to the Always Already Podcast for indulgent conversations about critical theory (in the broadest read of the term!). Our podcast consists of two episode streams. The first is a discussion of texts spanning critical theory, political theory, social theory, and philosophy. We work through and analyze main ideas, underlying assumptions, connections with other texts and theories, and occasionally delve into the great abyss of free association, ad hoc theory jokes, and makeshift puns...more Hosts James Padilioni Jr, John McMahon, Emily Crandall, Rachel Brown, B Lee-Harrison Aultman
Producer/Network Always Already Podcast
Email ****@gmail.com
Estimated Monthly Listeners 10k-50k
Apple Rating 4.7/5Apple Reviews 163Facebook 1.4KTwitter 1.6K Since Dec 2015 Get Email Contact

19. Critical Theory: The Podcast

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From Bernard E. Harcourt at the Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought, Critical Theory: The Podcast explores the front lines of critical thought.
Host Bernard E. Harcourt
Producer/Network Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought
Email ****@columbia.edu
Estimated Monthly Listeners 1k-10k
Apple Rating 3.7/5Apple Reviews 20 Avg Length 101 min Format Extended Get Email Contact

20. This Is Not A Pipe

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Interviewing authors of Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, and Philosophy.
Host Chris Richardson
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Facebook 268 Avg Length 57 min Format Long form Since Sep 2017 Get Email Contact