Critical Inquiry

Papers
(The median citation count of Critical Inquiry is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
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:Radium of the Word: A Poetics of Materiality19
:Meir Kahane: The Public Life and Political Thought of an American Jewish Radical18
Between Conformity and Dissent: Two Chinese Thinkers in Search of Esotericism12
Kafka’s Animal Machines11
:The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence10
:Palestine Is Throwing a Party and the Whole World Is Invited: Capital and State Building in the West Bank9
Big Earths of China: Remotely Sensing Xinjiang along the Belt and Road8
Toward Dematerialization: Light, Medium, Environment8
Supposing … : On Variation in Picasso’s Las Meninas (after Velázquez) and Shakespeare’s Sonnets8
Systemic Corruption: Constitutional Ideas for an Anti-Oligarchic Republic8
:Apropos of Something: A History of Irrelevance and Relevance7
The Four-Color Theorem and the Aesthetics of Computational Proof6
The Planetization of Machine Listening4
:The Book-Makers: A History of the Book in Eighteen Lives4
:Fragments: The Existential Situation of Our Time and Filaments: Theological Profiles, vols. 1–2 of Selected Essays4
“Respirators, Not Furnished”: On Reading Muriel Rukeyser in the Pandemic and Other Disasters4
:Operation Valhalla: Writings on War, Weapons, and Media3
On Addressability, or What Even Is Computation?3
:The Cancel Culture Panic: How an American Obsession Went Global3
:Ideology and Politics3
Kate Crawford. Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2021. 336 pp.3
:Body without Organs, Body without Image: Ernesto Neto’s Anti-Leviathan, Becoming-Matisse: Between Painting and Architecture, and Duchamp Looked At (from the Other Side) / Duchamp with (and against3
Pleistocene Park: Engineering Wilderness in a More-than-Human World3
Manet and Neoliberalism: The Case of Salman Toor2
:The Likeness of Things Unlike: A Poetics of Incommensurability2
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Granular Worlds: Situating the Sand Table in Media History2
Sensitivity and Sensing: Toward a Processual Media Theory of Electromagnetic Vibrations2
Jean-Paul Marat: Prophet of Terror2
: The Traces of Jacques Derrida’s Cinema2
Critical Response V: “Rather Like a Habit”2
:The Blue Period: Black Writing in the Early Cold War2
:The Poverty of Ethics2
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Stanley Cavell. Here and There: Sites of Philosophy, ed. Nancy Bauer, Alice Crary, and Sandra Laugier. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2022. 336 pp.2
What Is an Author?2
:Cybernetic Capitalism: A Critical Theory of the Incommunicable2
Contemporary Political Adventures of Meaning: What Is a Floating Signifier?1
Data Science and the Post-Liberal Arts University1
Just Sabotage1
:On Belonging and Not Belonging: Translation, Migration, Replacement1
The Draw of the Mark1
: The Rise of Office Literature: Bureaucratization and Aesthetics in Britain and France, 1810–19001
The Navigable Image: Vermeer, Melville, and the Maritime Coordinates of Computer Graphics1
Vocal Deliriums (Five Proposals)1
:Queer Velocities: Time, Sex, and Biopower on the Early Modern Stage.1
What’s the Matter with Computational Literary Studies?1
Critical Response I: A Response to Benedict S. Robinson, “The True Story of Fictionality”1
Libraries as “Academic Traffic Facilities”: Interlibrary Loan Imaginations after 19451
:Take This Hammer: Work, Song, Crisis1
Off the Clock1
:Ludwig Binswanger and Fernand Deligny on the Human Condition: Wandering Lines1
:Digital Lethargy: Dispatches from an Age of Disconnection1
:Dwelling in Fiction: Poetics of Place and the Experimental Novel in Latin America1
:Making the World Clean: Wasted Lives, Wasted Environment, and Racial Capitalism1
:The Politics of Art: Dissent and Cultural Diplomacy in Lebanon, Palestine, and Jordan1
:Curating Capitalism: How Art Impacts Business, Management, and Economy.1
Daniel M. Herskowitz. Heidegger and His Jewish Reception. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021. 346 pp.1
The Planetary Experiment: A History and Theory of Science at Scale1
The Human Translator versus the Machine: Algorithms of Interpretation1
Old Trees, Wild Rivers: CI at Fifty1
Race,Get Out, and the Advent of (Enforced) Skepticism1
:Maladies of the Will: The American Novel and the Modernity Problem1
Cybernetic Circulation Complex: Big Tech and Planetary Crisis1
Some Points about Contemporary Fascism1
Critical Response VII: Theories We Desire With: A Rejoinder1
Close Third: The Narrative Formation of Modern Intersubjectivity1
Jacob Gaboury. Image Objects: An Archaeology of Computer Graphics. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2021. 312 pp.1
: How to Research like a Dog: Kafka’s New Science1
:Modern Times: Temporality in Art and Politics0
“Gas Guzzling Gaia”: Some New Camera Angles on a Pivotal Scene0
Asian/American Esports: Exercising the Ghosts of Yellow Peril0
: Repair the World: French Literature in the Twenty-First Century0
Apostrophe’s Occasions: Two Postures of Abolitionist Address0
:Creatures of the Air: Music, Atlantic Spirits, Breath, 1817–19130
Samantha N. Sheppard. Sporting Blackness: Race, Embodiment, and Critical Muscle Memory on Screen. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2020. 264 pp.0
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Achille Mbembe. Brutalisme. Paris: Éditions La Découverte, 2020. 246 pp.0
Digital Palestine and the National Imagination0
: Action without Hope: Victorian Literature after Climate Collapse0
Thomas Hobbes, the Virginia Company, and the Invention of Corporate Sovereignty0
Questions Concerning Longevity0
:Stop Thief! Anarchism and Philosophy0
:Stranger Fictions: A History of the Novel in Arabic Translation0
Language Machines: Cultural AI and the End of Remainder Humanism0
The Plant at the End of the World: Precious Okoyomon’s Invasive Art0
The Optical and the Environmental: From Screens to Screenscapes0
:The Force of Truth: Critique, Genealogy, and Truth-Telling in Michel Foucault0
Gayle Rogers. Speculation: A Cultural History from Aristotle to AI. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021. 264 pp.0
:The Other Synaesthesia0
:Thresholds, Encounters: Paul Celan and the Claim of Philology0
Marjorie Perloff. Infrathin: An Experiment in Micropoetics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. 240 pp.0
The Reification of the World: Poetry and Conquest in Marcel Broodthaers’s Maps0
Mycoaesthetics0
:The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is: A History, a Philosophy, a Warning0
:Immortal Films: “Casablanca” and the Afterlife of a Hollywood Classic0
:Formal Matters: Embodied Experience in Modern Literature0
Panofsky’s Debut0
The True Story of Fictionality0
A Situationist in Autumn: Guy Debord, Translator of Jorge Manrique0
:Overshoot: How the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown0
:Before the West: The Rise and Fall of Eastern World Orders0
Critical Response V: AI-Generated Images and Photography: The General and the Specific0
A Peripheral Vision: Framing the Cultural Bias in the Center of Photography0
Trans Romance: Queer Intimacy and the Problem of Inexistence in the Modern Novel0
:The Sociology of Literature0
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The Weather in Sedgwick0
:Life beside Bars: Confinement and Capital in an American Prison Town0
:How I Became a Tree0
:A Face Drawn in Sand: Humanistic Inquiry and Foucault in the Present0
:What Pornography Knows: Sex and Social Protest since the Eighteenth Century0
Taxonomic Criticism0
:Book, Text, Medium: Cross-Sectional Reading for a Digital Age0
Critical Response I: Photography and AI: Why It Matters, Though0
As If! Queer Criticism Across Difference0
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: Why We Fear AI: On the Interpretation of Nightmares0
Schematizations, or How to Draw a Thought0
: Heidegger and Dao: Things, Nothingness, Freedom0
:Health Communism0
The Truth of Value: A Conversation with Theaster Gates0
Critical Response II: Diamonds and Rust0
:Common Measures: Romanticism and the Groundlessness of Community0
Wild Fictions: Essays on Literature, Empire, and the Environment0
:Inventing the Alphabet: The Origins of Letters from Antiquity to the Present0
Albert Kahn Inc.: Architecture, Labor, and Industry, 1905–19610
:The Matter of Black Living: The Aesthetic Experiment of Racial Data, 1880–19300
Hate, Consent, Play0
:Reading Shakespeare Reading Me0
Neoliberal Subjectivation: Between Foucault and Marx0
:Nihilistic Times: Thinking with Max Weber0
Dump Puppetry: Ecology, Play, and Object Performance0
Intellectual History and the Problem of Conceptual Change0
Algorithmic Abduction: Robots for Alien Reading0
Corroded with SCUM: Valerie Solanas’s Theories of Mind0
Unnatural Images: On AI-Generated Photographs0
White Women Wondering and the Contortions of Childfree Writing0
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:Bad Education: Why Queer Theory Teaches Us Nothing0
:Kant and the Supposed Right to Lie0
: The Key to Everything: May Swenson, A Writer’s Life0
The Novel as Practice of Consciousness: Locke and Defoe, Revisited0
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Surrounding and Surrounded: Toward a Conceptual History of Environment0
“The Problem of Style in the Visual Arts”0
Paratactic Boundaries0
Eric Hayot. Humanist Reason: A History. An Argument. A Plan. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021. 324 pp.0
Tina Young Choi. Victorian Contingencies: Experiments in Literature, Science, and Play. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2022. 246 pp.0
:Big Fiction: How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature0
:Bread and Freedom: Egypt’s Revolutionary Situation0
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Victorian Equations0
Zachary M. Howlett. Meritocracy and Its Discontents: Anxiety and the National College Entrance Exam in China. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 2021. 266 pp.0
:The Kinds of Poetry I Want: Essays & Comedies0
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:Prisoner of the Infidels: The Memoir of an Ottoman Muslim in Seventeenth-Century Europe0
:Reconfiguring the Portrait0
:Arte Programmata: Freedom, Control, and the Computer in 1960s Italy0
#COVID, Crisis, and the Search for Story in the Platform Age0
Braxton Soderman. Against Flow: Video Games and the Flowing Subject. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2021. 328 pp.0
Critical Response III: Some Field Notes0
Reading Anew0
:Behind the Angel of History: The Angelus Novus and Its Interleaf0
:On the Edge: Feeling Precarious in China0
: Civic Solitude: Why Democracy Needs Distance0
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:Novels by Aliens: Weird Tales and the Twenty-First Century0
:Emancipation after Hegel: Achieving a Contradictory Revolution0
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Naftali Bezem on the Green Line0
On the Fence: Media, Ecology, Marx0
Hannah Zeavin. The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2021. 328 pp.0
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:The Plastic Turn0
Critical Response III: After Straight Pride0
Fabienne Verdier and the Force between Words0
: Immanent Critiques: The Frankfurt School Under Pressure0
:All in All (More or Less): Rhetorical Considerations in Literature, Thought, and Experience0
What Is a Book? Kant and the Law of the Letter0
Jennifer L. Morgan. Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2021. 296 pp.0
:Disarming Intelligence: Proust, Valéry, and Modern French Criticism0
When Is Philology Made Jewish? The Example of Erich Auerbach, Part 10
:Allegorical Moments: Call to the Everyday0
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: Funding White Supremacy: Federal Wealth Policies and the Modern Racial Wealth Gap0
An Incorporate Fellowship? Antiphon, Thucydides, Beccaria, and Elizabeth Petrovna on the Death Penalty0
S. Pearl Brilmyer. The Science of Character: Human Objecthood and the Ends of Victorian Realism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022. 296 pp.0
:Architecture against Democracy: Histories of the Nationalist International0
: Open Admissions: The Poetics and Pedagogy of Toni Cade Bambara, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, and Adrienne Rich in the Era of Free College0
:Sayyid Qutb: An Intellectual Biography0
William Empson. Some Versions of Pastoral and Related Writings, ed. Seamus Perry. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. 453 pp., and The Structure of Complex Words and Related Writings0
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Ecomedia in the Wild: Camera Traps, Geiger Counters, and Radioactive Boars0
:Pathologies of Motion: Historical Thinking in Medicine, Aesthetics, and Poetics0
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On the Calculation of Meaning, or Doing Words without Things0
“I Am Restless to Live, As Nature Doth”: Cavendish and the Aesthetics of Beating Bodily Time0
:“The Savage Detectives” Reread0
Speech, Media, and Early Modern English Writing0
Miss Destiny0
Andil Gosine. Nature’s Wild: Love, Sex, and Law in the Caribbean. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2021. 192 pp.0
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:The Torture Camp on Paradise Street0
You Have Been Misconnected0
Literature as Soft Power0
:Planetary Longings0
Visible Yet Transparent: The Lens in Nineteenth-Century Photographic Cultures0
:Something Speaks to Me: Where Criticism Begins0
:The Crisis of Narration0
:The Book of Politics: China in Theory0
Cuteness Envy0
Critical Response II: Absconding from the Index0
:Serial Forms: The Unfinished Project of Modernity, 1815–18480
Situation: A Narrative Concept0
: Hermaphrodite Logic: A History of Intersex Liberation0
Fassbinder, Functionalism, and the Beauty of Braun Design0
:Racial Blackness and Indian Ocean Slavery: Iran’s Cinematic Archive0
:Phenomenal Blackness: Black Power, Philosophy, and Theory0
:Professing Criticism: Essays on the Organization of Literary Study0
Translation as Different: A View from Linguistic Relativity0
The Art of Text-to-Speech0
The Oxford Handbook of Soviet Underground Culture0
:Screening Fears: On Protective Media0
:Vernacular English: Reading the Anglophone in Postcolonial India0
:Understanding Barthes, Understanding Modernism0
Critical Response I: Queer Theory Continues to Take Shape0
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Fiftieth Anniversary0
Thinking on Film with Arendt and Cavell0
Transcreation and Self-Translation in Contemporary Latinx Poetry0
: True Materialism: Hegelian Marxism and the Modernist Struggle for Freedom0
:Cosmic Connections: Poetry in the Age of Disenchantment0
Sentiment Analysis and the Sentimental Novel0
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:The Afterlife of Moses: Exile, Democracy, Renewal0
Hans Blumenberg. St. Matthew Passion. Trans. Helmut Müller-Sievers and Paul Fleming. New York: Cornell University Press, 2021. 246 pp.0
: Geologic Life: Inhuman Intimacies and the Geophysics of Race0
: The Cinema of Extractions: Film Materials and Their Forms0
:Disavowal0
:Mu, 49 Marks of Abolition0
Conceptual Scheming: L. J. Henderson, Practice, and the Harvard View of Science0
:Monumental Graffiti: Tracing Public Art and Resistance in the City0
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Notational/Poetics: Noting, Gleaning, Itinerary0
Facing Up to the Sovereign: Pak Sheung Cheun’s Nightmare Wallpaper and Hong Kong’s Despair0
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