Critical Inquiry

Papers
(The TQCC 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
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:Radium of the Word: A Poetics of Materiality24
:Meir Kahane: The Public Life and Political Thought of an American Jewish Radical18
Between Conformity and Dissent: Two Chinese Thinkers in Search of Esotericism12
Brian Winston and Matthew Winston. The Roots of Fake News: Objecting to Objective Journalism. New York: Routledge, 2021. 224 pp.12
Peter Snowdon. The People Are Not an Image: Vernacular Video After the Arab Spring. New York: Verso Books, 2020. 304 pp.9
Kafka’s Animal Machines9
:The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence8
:Palestine Is Throwing a Party and the Whole World Is Invited: Capital and State Building in the West Bank7
Supposing … : On Variation in Picasso’s Las Meninas (after Velázquez) and Shakespeare’s Sonnets7
Big Earths of China: Remotely Sensing Xinjiang along the Belt and Road6
:The Book-Makers: A History of the Book in Eighteen Lives5
Toward Dematerialization: Light, Medium, Environment5
The Four-Color Theorem and the Aesthetics of Computational Proof5
:Apropos of Something: A History of Irrelevance and Relevance5
:The Cancel Culture Panic: How an American Obsession Went Global4
:Fragments: The Existential Situation of Our Time and Filaments: Theological Profiles, vols. 1–2 of Selected Essays4
The Planetization of Machine Listening4
Kate Crawford. Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2021. 336 pp.4
Pleistocene Park: Engineering Wilderness in a More-than-Human World3
On Addressability, or What Even Is Computation?3
“Respirators, Not Furnished”: On Reading Muriel Rukeyser in the Pandemic and Other Disasters3
Werner Hamacher. Two Studies of Friedrich Hölderlin. Trans. Julia Ng and Anthony Curtis Adler, Ed. Peter Fenves and Ng. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2020. 240 pp.3
Derek Jarman and Everything That Is the Case2
Manet and Neoliberalism: The Case of Salman Toor2
:Operation Valhalla: Writings on War, Weapons, and Media2
Sensitivity and Sensing: Toward a Processual Media Theory of Electromagnetic Vibrations2
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: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 against2
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:The Likeness of Things Unlike: A Poetics of Incommensurability2
Daniel M. Herskowitz. Heidegger and His Jewish Reception. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021. 346 pp.2
:Ideology and Politics2
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: The Traces of Jacques Derrida’s Cinema2
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
The Navigable Image: Vermeer, Melville, and the Maritime Coordinates of Computer Graphics1
What’s the Matter with Computational Literary Studies?1
:The Blue Period: Black Writing in the Early Cold War1
Critical Response V: “Rather Like a Habit”1
Libraries as “Academic Traffic Facilities”: Interlibrary Loan Imaginations after 19451
:Making the World Clean: Wasted Lives, Wasted Environment, and Racial Capitalism1
Contemporary Political Adventures of Meaning: What Is a Floating Signifier?1
Michael Clune. A Defense of Judgment. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. 256 pp.1
Race,Get Out, and the Advent of (Enforced) Skepticism1
The Draw of the Mark1
:Dwelling in Fiction: Poetics of Place and the Experimental Novel in Latin America1
The Planetary Experiment: A History and Theory of Science at Scale1
Critical Response I: A Response to Benedict S. Robinson, “The True Story of Fictionality”1
Jacob Gaboury. Image Objects: An Archaeology of Computer Graphics. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2021. 312 pp.1
Granular Worlds: Situating the Sand Table in Media History1
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Vocal Deliriums (Five Proposals)1
Data Science and the Post-Liberal Arts University1
Seamus Deane. Small World: Ireland 1798–2018. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021. 364 pp.1
:Take This Hammer: Work, Song, Crisis1
: The Rise of Office Literature: Bureaucratization and Aesthetics in Britain and France, 1810–19001
:Ludwig Binswanger and Fernand Deligny on the Human Condition: Wandering Lines1
:Curating Capitalism: How Art Impacts Business, Management, and Economy.1
:Digital Lethargy: Dispatches from an Age of Disconnection1
Critical Response VII: Theories We Desire With: A Rejoinder1
Just Sabotage1
:Queer Velocities: Time, Sex, and Biopower on the Early Modern Stage.1
:The Poverty of Ethics1
:Cybernetic Capitalism: A Critical Theory of the Incommunicable1
What Is an Author?1
Close Third: The Narrative Formation of Modern Intersubjectivity1
: How to Research like a Dog: Kafka’s New Science1
When Is Philology Made Jewish? The Example of Erich Auerbach, Part 21
:On Belonging and Not Belonging: Translation, Migration, Replacement1
Old Trees, Wild Rivers: CI at Fifty1
:Maladies of the Will: The American Novel and the Modernity Problem1
Some Points about Contemporary Fascism1
The Human Translator versus the Machine: Algorithms of Interpretation1
:The Politics of Art: Dissent and Cultural Diplomacy in Lebanon, Palestine, and Jordan1
:States of Disconnect: The China-India Literary Relation in the Twentieth Century0
:The Torture Camp on Paradise Street0
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Braxton Soderman. Against Flow: Video Games and the Flowing Subject. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2021. 328 pp.0
The Truth of Value: A Conversation with Theaster Gates0
James Leo Cahill and Luca Caminati, eds. Cinema of Exploration: Essays on an Adventurous Film Practice. New York: Routledge, 2021. 348 pp.0
Craig Dworkin. Dictionary Poetics: Toward a Radical Lexicography. New York: Fordham University Press, 2020. 272 pp.0
:Creatures of the Air: Music, Atlantic Spirits, Breath, 1817–19130
Master Meter: Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, and the History of Lyric0
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: Hermaphrodite Logic: A History of Intersex Liberation0
Media: The Case of Spain and New Spain0
Eric Hayot. Humanist Reason: A History. An Argument. A Plan. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021. 324 pp.0
Corroded with SCUM: Valerie Solanas’s Theories of Mind0
The Optical and the Environmental: From Screens to Screenscapes0
:Prisoner of the Infidels: The Memoir of an Ottoman Muslim in Seventeenth-Century Europe0
The Plant at the End of the World: Precious Okoyomon’s Invasive Art0
The True Story of Fictionality0
:The Book of Politics: China in Theory0
Literature as Soft Power0
Critical Response V: AI-Generated Images and Photography: The General and the Specific0
Hannah Zeavin. The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2021. 328 pp.0
Facing Up to the Sovereign: Pak Sheung Cheun’s Nightmare Wallpaper and Hong Kong’s Despair0
White Women Wondering and the Contortions of Childfree Writing0
:Modern Times: Temporality in Art and Politics0
:Serial Forms: The Unfinished Project of Modernity, 1815–18480
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:Vernacular English: Reading the Anglophone in Postcolonial India0
:Behind the Angel of History: The Angelus Novus and Its Interleaf0
:Understanding Barthes, Understanding Modernism0
:Reconfiguring the Portrait0
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:Formal Matters: Embodied Experience in Modern Literature0
Photography and Semiotics: Use and Purpose0
:Pathologies of Motion: Historical Thinking in Medicine, Aesthetics, and Poetics0
Fabienne Verdier and the Force between Words0
:Before the West: The Rise and Fall of Eastern World Orders0
: True Materialism: Hegelian Marxism and the Modernist Struggle for Freedom0
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:Thresholds, Encounters: Paul Celan and the Claim of Philology0
:On the Edge: Feeling Precarious in China0
:The Plastic Turn0
:Architecture against Democracy: Histories of the Nationalist International0
Schematizations, or How to Draw a Thought0
:A Black Gaze: Artists Changing How We See0
:Disarming Intelligence: Proust, Valéry, and Modern French Criticism0
:The Kinds of Poetry I Want: Essays & Comedies0
Molly Warnock. Simon Hantaï and the Reserves of Painting. University Park, Penn.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2020. 280 pp.0
An Incorporate Fellowship? Antiphon, Thucydides, Beccaria, and Elizabeth Petrovna on the Death Penalty0
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Critical Response III: Some Field Notes0
: Open Admissions: The Poetics and Pedagogy of Toni Cade Bambara, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, and Adrienne Rich in the Era of Free College0
The Art of Text-to-Speech0
Situation: A Narrative Concept0
S. Pearl Brilmyer. The Science of Character: Human Objecthood and the Ends of Victorian Realism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022. 296 pp.0
: Immanent Critiques: The Frankfurt School Under Pressure0
:Big Fiction: How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature0
Achille Mbembe. Brutalisme. Paris: Éditions La Découverte, 2020. 246 pp.0
Samantha N. Sheppard. Sporting Blackness: Race, Embodiment, and Critical Muscle Memory on Screen. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2020. 264 pp.0
A Situationist in Autumn: Guy Debord, Translator of Jorge Manrique0
“The Problem of Style in the Visual Arts”0
:Bad Education: Why Queer Theory Teaches Us Nothing0
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Don Quixote and the Public0
:A Face Drawn in Sand: Humanistic Inquiry and Foucault in the Present0
:Stranger Fictions: A History of the Novel in Arabic Translation0
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You Have Been Misconnected0
:Queer Forms0
Apostrophe, Animation, and Racism0
Surrounding and Surrounded: Toward a Conceptual History of Environment0
:Overshoot: How the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown0
Critical Response II: Diamonds and Rust0
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:The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is: A History, a Philosophy, a Warning0
Reading Anew0
Apostrophe’s Occasions: Two Postures of Abolitionist Address0
:Professing Criticism: Essays on the Organization of Literary Study0
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On the Calculation of Meaning, or Doing Words without Things0
Marjorie Perloff. Infrathin: An Experiment in Micropoetics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. 240 pp.0
:What Pornography Knows: Sex and Social Protest since the Eighteenth Century0
:Reading Shakespeare Reading Me0
Critical Response III: After Straight Pride0
Cuteness Envy0
Panofsky’s Debut0
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:Life beside Bars: Confinement and Capital in an American Prison Town0
The Weather in Sedgwick0
:How I Became a Tree0
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Shay Hazkani. Dear Palestine: A Social History of the 1948 War. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2021. 352 pp.0
:Phenomenal Blackness: Black Power, Philosophy, and Theory0
Critical Response II: Absconding from the Index0
:Inventing the Alphabet: The Origins of Letters from Antiquity to the Present0
:Emancipation after Hegel: Achieving a Contradictory Revolution0
: Civic Solitude: Why Democracy Needs Distance0
:Nihilistic Times: Thinking with Max Weber0
:Planetary Longings0
Taxonomic Criticism0
:The Matter of Black Living: The Aesthetic Experiment of Racial Data, 1880–19300
:The Sociology of Literature0
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Ecomedia in the Wild: Camera Traps, Geiger Counters, and Radioactive Boars0
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:Bread and Freedom: Egypt’s Revolutionary Situation0
:Mu, 49 Marks of Abolition0
:Screening Fears: On Protective Media0
Thomas Hobbes, the Virginia Company, and the Invention of Corporate Sovereignty0
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:The Crisis of Narration0
: Repair the World: French Literature in the Twenty-First Century0
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
Visible Yet Transparent: The Lens in Nineteenth-Century Photographic Cultures0
“Gas Guzzling Gaia”: Some New Camera Angles on a Pivotal Scene0
“I Am Restless to Live, As Nature Doth”: Cavendish and the Aesthetics of Beating Bodily Time0
:The Force of Truth: Critique, Genealogy, and Truth-Telling in Michel Foucault0
Tina Young Choi. Victorian Contingencies: Experiments in Literature, Science, and Play. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2022. 246 pp.0
Trans Romance: Queer Intimacy and the Problem of Inexistence in the Modern Novel0
#COVID, Crisis, and the Search for Story in the Platform Age0
Caterina Scaramelli. How to Make a Wetland: Water and Moral Ecology in Turkey. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2021. 240 pp.0
:Stop Thief! Anarchism and Philosophy0
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Naftali Bezem on the Green Line0
Critical Response IV: “Crystal Blue Persuasion”0
Mycoaesthetics0
Neoliberal Subjectivation: Between Foucault and Marx0
Unnatural Images: On AI-Generated Photographs0
: Geologic Life: Inhuman Intimacies and the Geophysics of Race0
Speech, Media, and Early Modern English Writing0
:“The Savage Detectives” Reread0
Fassbinder, Functionalism, and the Beauty of Braun Design0
Andil Gosine. Nature’s Wild: Love, Sex, and Law in the Caribbean. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2021. 192 pp.0
The Reification of the World: Poetry and Conquest in Marcel Broodthaers’s Maps0
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Hans Blumenberg. St. Matthew Passion. Trans. Helmut Müller-Sievers and Paul Fleming. New York: Cornell University Press, 2021. 246 pp.0
:Sayyid Qutb: An Intellectual Biography0
:Cosmic Connections: Poetry in the Age of Disenchantment0
:Kant and the Supposed Right to Lie0
A Peripheral Vision: Framing the Cultural Bias in the Center of Photography0
Translation as Different: A View from Linguistic Relativity0
:The Other Synaesthesia0
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
Critical Response I: Queer Theory Continues to Take Shape0
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When Is Philology Made Jewish? The Example of Erich Auerbach, Part 10
:Immortal Films: “Casablanca” and the Afterlife of a Hollywood Classic0
:Arte Programmata: Freedom, Control, and the Computer in 1960s Italy0
: Why We Fear AI: On the Interpretation of Nightmares0
Thinking on Film with Arendt and Cavell0
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
Conceptual Scheming: L. J. Henderson, Practice, and the Harvard View of Science0
:Racial Blackness and Indian Ocean Slavery: Iran’s Cinematic Archive0
:Degenerations of Democracy0
:Disavowal0
Victorian Equations0
Critical Response I: Photography and AI: Why It Matters, Though0
:Book, Text, Medium: Cross-Sectional Reading for a Digital Age0
The Novel as Practice of Consciousness: Locke and Defoe, Revisited0
:Monumental Graffiti: Tracing Public Art and Resistance in the City0
What Is a Book? Kant and the Law of the Letter0
Rachel Teukolsky. Picture World: Image, Aesthetics, and Victorian New Media. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. 480 pp.0
:Health Communism0
: Heidegger and Dao: Things, Nothingness, Freedom0
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:Novels by Aliens: Weird Tales and the Twenty-First Century0
Hate, Consent, Play0
: Funding White Supremacy: Federal Wealth Policies and the Modern Racial Wealth Gap0
Fiftieth Anniversary0
Transcreation and Self-Translation in Contemporary Latinx Poetry0
:Allegorical Moments: Call to the Everyday0
Notational/Poetics: Noting, Gleaning, Itinerary0
Algorithmic Abduction: Robots for Alien Reading0
:The Afterlife of Moses: Exile, Democracy, Renewal0
Dump Puppetry: Ecology, Play, and Object Performance0
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