CRITIQUE AND HUMANISM

This is the 12th episode of the video and audio podcast KX TALKS. Its topic is “On the ‘Use of Bodies’ and Other Philosophical Demons“, and the occasion of the conversation is the publication of the Bulgarian translation of Giorgio Agamben’s seminal book The Use of Bodies. This is a book that closes, according to… More

This is the 11th episode of the video & audio podcast KX TALKS. This time its topic is the very concept of ‘Public Sphere’ according to Juergen Habermas. The referential book is the second part of the legendary book by Habermas The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere, i.e. A new Structural Transformation of the… More

This is the 10th episode of our video & audio podcast KX TALKS. Its topic – Confessions According to Michel Foucault  – clearly refers to the volume 4 of Michel Foucault’s series History of Sexuality: Confessions of the Flesh, while the occasion of the conversation is the Bulgarian edition of the volume. The traditional host… More

This is the 9th episode of our video & audio podcast KX TALKS. Its topic: Has the World Entered a New Climate Regime? (On Bruno Latour). When talking, the speakers refer to a recently published book by Bruno Latour into Bulgarian. The book is an edition under a single cover of 2 of the latest… More

This is the eighth episode of the video & audio podcast KX TALKS. Topic: Is Life Fragmentary? (On Georg Simmel). The main referent point is the book by Simmel The Fragmentary Character of Life (Sociological Essays). The host Nikolay Kolev, philosopher and cultural journalist, talks to Teodora Karamelska – a renown Bulgarian sociologist, teaching at… More

This is the seventh episode of our video & audio podcast KX TALKS. Its topic: Is Psychoanalysis A Technique? The main referent point is a recent book published by KX, i.e.: Sigmund Freud, The Psychoanalytic Technique. This collection presents in Bulgarian 16 classical texts by S. Freud in a translation by Elitsa Tsigoriyna (edited by… More

This is the sixth episode of our video & audio podcast KX TALKS. Its topic is: Thinking the Excremental? (Senses of Proximity). The main referent point is the book by the interlocutor Excrementum: Senses of Proximity (A Sociological Analytics). The host Nikolay Kolev talks to Nina Nikolova – a renown Bulgarian sociologist, chief of the… More

In this 5th episode the host Nikolay Kolev talks to Julian Zhiliev – a literary historian and critic, a renown Bulgarian translator of contemporary French literature. The talk is based on the book by Georges Perec recenty published by us – Thoughts of Sorts, original French title Penser/Classer (see more about the book here). You… More

In this 4th episode the host Nikolay Kolev talks to Dr. David Ieroham – one of the most famous Bulgarian psychotherapists, university professor in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy, supervisor in psychoanalysis, author of a large number of texts in psychotherapy and cultural processes. The episode follows a recent publication of ours, i.e. the book by Dr.… More

In this 3rd episode the host Nikolay Kolev talks to Petar Goranov – Associated Professor in Ethics at Sofia University, author of a large number of texts in philosophy and cultural studies. „What Is Literature?“ is the title of the episode, and it follows a recent publication by Petar Goranov entitled “A Phantasy on Theme… More