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 2021-01-01 to 2025-01-01.)
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Jing Wang. The Other Digital China: Nonconfrontational Activism on the Social Web. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2019. 320 pp.77
Toward Dematerialization: Light, Medium, Environment47
Big Earths of China: Remotely Sensing Xinjiang along the Belt and Road27
After Lucretius21
Tessa Morris-Suzuki. Japan’s Living Politics: Grassroots Action and the Crises of Democracy. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. 236 pp.16
Eliza Steinbock. Shimmering Images: Trans Cinema, Embodiment, and the Aesthetics of Change. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2019. 248 pp.16
Jonathan Rauch. The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2021. 280 pp.13
Meredith A. Bak. Playful Visions: Optical Toys and the Emergence of Children’s Media Culture. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2020. 288 pp.12
Isaac Ariail Reed. Power in Modernity: Agency Relations and the Creative Destruction of the King’s Two Bodies. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. 283 pp.9
:Digital Lethargy: Dispatches from an Age of Disconnection9
:Radium of the Word: A Poetics of Materiality9
:Countries That Don’t Exist: Selected Nonfiction8
:Meir Kahane: The Public Life and Political Thought of an American Jewish Radical8
The Draw of the Mark7
On the Fence: Media, Ecology, Marx7
:Professing Criticism: Essays on the Organization of Literary Study6
:Engaging Violence: Civility and the Reach of Literature6
A Peripheral Vision: Framing the Cultural Bias in the Center of Photography6
:Behind the Angel of History: The Angelus Novus and Its Interleaf6
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Susan Stewart. The Ruins Lesson: Meaning and Material in Western Culture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. 379 pp.5
:Nervous Systems: Art, Systems, and Politics since the 1960s5
The Rise and Fall of Biopolitics: A Response to Bruno Latour5
Nadya Bair. The Decisive Network: Magnum Photos and the Postwar Image. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2020. 336 pp.5
Xiao Liu. Information Fantasies: Precarious Mediation in Postsocialist China. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019. 318 pp.5
:Emancipation after Hegel: Achieving a Contradictory Revolution5
Geraldine Heng. The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages. Cambridge, Mass.: Cambridge University Press, 2018. 510 pp.4
:Creatures of the Air: Music, Atlantic Spirits, Breath, 1817–19134
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The Ecology of Form4
Susanne von Falkenhausen. Beyond the Mirror: Seeing in Art History and Visual Culture Studies. Bielefeld: transcript, 2020. 251 pp.4
Queer Rigidity: Habit and the Limits of the Performativity Thesis3
Just Sabotage3
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Between Conformity and Dissent: Two Chinese Thinkers in Search of Esotericism3
Doron Galili. Seeing by Electricity: The Emergence of Television, 1878–1939. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2020. 247 pp.3
:The Plastic Turn3
Brian Winston and Matthew Winston. The Roots of Fake News: Objecting to Objective Journalism. New York: Routledge, 2021. 224 pp.3
:On the Edge: Feeling Precarious in China3
Christopher S. Wood A History of Art History. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2019. 472 pp.3
Kafka’s Animal Machines3
:Vernacular English: Reading the Anglophone in Postcolonial India3
The Art of Disciplined Imagination: Prediction, Scenarios, and Other Speculative Infrastructures2
Jennifer L. Morgan. Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2021. 296 pp.2
Thinking on Film with Arendt and Cavell2
Race,Get Out, and the Advent of (Enforced) Skepticism2
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Braxton Soderman. Against Flow: Video Games and the Flowing Subject. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2021. 328 pp.2
Fiftieth Anniversary2
Trans Romance: Queer Intimacy and the Problem of Inexistence in the Modern Novel2
Amia Srinivasan. The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021. 304 pp.2
The Weather in Sedgwick2
:Book, Text, Medium: Cross-Sectional Reading for a Digital Age2
The Colonized Semites and the Infectious Disease: Theorizing and Narrativizing Anti-Semitism in the Levant, 1870–19141
Neetu Khanna. The Visceral Logics of Decolonization. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2020. 200 pp.1
Set Design Thinking and the Art of the Human1
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OK, Zoomer!1
Reading between Freedom and Necessity1
Net-munity, or the Space between Us … Will Open the Future1
Tavia Nyong’o. Afro-Fabulations: The Queer Drama of Black Life. New York: NYU Press, 2019. 280 pp.1
:On Belonging and Not Belonging: Translation, Migration, Replacement1
The Algorithm Concept, 1684–19581
Introduction: Medium/Environment1
On Keeping Things as Books1
You Have Been Misconnected1
:The Privilege of Play: A History of Hobby Games, Race, and Geek Culture1
:Pathologies of Motion: Historical Thinking in Medicine, Aesthetics, and Poetics1
Harry Harootunian. The Unspoken as Heritage: The Armenian Genocide and Its Unaccounted Lives. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. 178 pp.1
Dispossession and Discontinuity: The Impact of the 1967 War on Palestinian Thought1
On Addressability, or What Even Is Computation?1
:Apropos of Something: A History of Irrelevance and Relevance1
Old Trees, Wild Rivers: CI at Fifty1
The Demon of Distraction1
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Contemporary Political Adventures of Meaning: What Is a Floating Signifier?1
Moshe Halbertal. Nahmanides: Law and Mysticism. Trans. Daniel Tabak. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2020. 434 pp.1
Photography and Semiotics: Use and Purpose1
:The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence1
Everywhere and Nowhere: Reflections on Phenomenology as Impossible and Indispensable (in Psychology and Psychiatry)1
:The Afterlife of Moses: Exile, Democracy, Renewal1
Novel Corona: Posthuman Virus1
Ryan Johnson. Transnationalism and Translation in Modern Chinese, English, French and Japanese Literatures. New York: Anthem Press, 2021. 216 pp.1
Elleke Boehmer. Postcolonial Poetics: 21st-Century Critical Readings. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. 220 pp.1
Alenda Y. Chang. Playing Nature: Ecology in Video Games. Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 2019. 281 pp.1
The Art of Text-to-Speech1
After Turing: How Philosophy Migrated to the AI Lab1
:Inventing the Alphabet: The Origins of Letters from Antiquity to the Present1
Kate Crawford. Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2021. 336 pp.1
On the Difference between Anthropocene and Climate Change Temporalities1
Eric Hayot. Humanist Reason: A History. An Argument. A Plan. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021. 324 pp.1
Peter Snowdon. The People Are Not an Image: Vernacular Video After the Arab Spring. New York: Verso Books, 2020. 304 pp.1
:A Delicate Matter: Art, Fragility, and Consumption in Eighteenth-Century France1
:Maladies of the Will: The American Novel and the Modernity Problem1
:How I Became a Tree0
Situation: A Narrative Concept0
Shay Hazkani. Dear Palestine: A Social History of the 1948 War. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2021. 352 pp.0
:Prisoner of the Infidels: The Memoir of an Ottoman Muslim in Seventeenth-Century Europe0
Transcreation and Self-Translation in Contemporary Latinx Poetry0
Unnatural Images: On AI-Generated Photographs0
Reading Advice to Parents about Children’s Sleep: The Political Psychology of a Self-Help Genre0
:States of Disconnect: The China-India Literary Relation in the Twentieth Century0
What Is a Book? Kant and the Law of the Letter0
:The Torture Camp on Paradise Street0
A Commentary on Samuel Beckett’s What Where0
Garrett Stewart. Cinemachines: An Essay on Media and Method. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. 201 pp.0
:Arte Programmata: Freedom, Control, and the Computer in 1960s Italy0
Stanley Cavell. Here and There: Sites of Philosophy, ed. Nancy Bauer, Alice Crary, and Sandra Laugier. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2022. 336 pp.0
:Curating Capitalism: How Art Impacts Business, Management, and Economy.0
Criticism and Truth0
:Phenomenal Blackness: Black Power, Philosophy, and Theory0
Granular Worlds: Situating the Sand Table in Media History0
:Serial Forms: The Unfinished Project of Modernity, 1815–18480
:Degenerations of Democracy0
Media: The Case of Spain and New Spain0
:Big Fiction: How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature0
On a Misunderstood Art (1959)0
The Truth of Value: A Conversation with Theaster Gates0
Jacob Gaboury. Image Objects: An Archaeology of Computer Graphics. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2021. 312 pp.0
Critical Response V: “Rather Like a Habit”0
Sean Cubitt. Anecdotal Evidence: Ecocritique from Hollywood to the Mass Image. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. 305 pp.0
What Is an Author?0
The National Security Novel: “Useful Fiction,” Persuasive Emotions, and the Securitization of Literature0
Steven Connor Giving Way: Thoughts on Unappreciated Dispositions. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2019. 248 pp.0
Sophie Seita. Provisional Avant-Gardes: Little Magazine Communities from Dada to Digital. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2019. 272 pp.0
Critical Response V: AI-Generated Images and Photography: The General and the Specific0
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Adam B. Seligman and Robert P. Weller. How Things Count as the Same: Memory, Mimesis, and Metaphor. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. 241 pp.0
Edward Branigan Tracking Color in Cinema and Art: Philosophy and Aesthetics. New York: Routledge, 2018. 344 pp.0
What’s the Matter with Computational Literary Studies?0
Gayle Rogers. Speculation: A Cultural History from Aristotle to AI. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021. 264 pp.0
:Modern Times: Temporality in Art and Politics0
:Memory Art in the Contemporary World: Confronting Violence in the Global South0
:Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad0
Eugene T. Richardson. Epidemic Illusions: On the Coloniality of Global Public Health. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2020. 224 pp.0
To Quarantine from Quarantine: Rousseau, Robinson Crusoe, and “I”0
Make Way for Infrastructure0
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Rita Felski. Hooked: Art and Attachment. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. 200 pp.0
:The Crisis of Narration0
On the Digital Ocean0
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Corey Byrnes. Fixing Landscape: A Techno-Poetic History of China’s Three Gorges. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018. 344 pp.0
Poems That Kill0
Alan Liu. Friending the Past: The Sense of History in the Digital Age. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018. 333 pp.0
Queer Curiosity0
Facing Up to the Sovereign: Pak Sheung Cheun’s Nightmare Wallpaper and Hong Kong’s Despair0
Hans Blumenberg. St. Matthew Passion. Trans. Helmut Müller-Sievers and Paul Fleming. New York: Cornell University Press, 2021. 246 pp.0
:Human Rights and Oppressed Peoples: Collected Essays and Speeches0
Dora Zhang. Strange Likeness: Description and the Modernist Novel. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. 246 pp.0
:Professing Criticism: Essays on the Organization of Literary Study0
Recursive Philosophy and Negative Machines0
:Judicial Uses of Images: Vision in Decision0
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Foucault, Neoliberalism, and Equality0
“Gas Guzzling Gaia”: Some New Camera Angles on a Pivotal Scene0
The Universal Right to Breathe0
#COVID, Crisis, and the Search for Story in the Platform Age0
Irene Albers. Der diskrete Charme der Anthropologie: Michel Leiris’ ethnologische Poetik. Konstanz, Germany: Konstanz University Press, 2018. 902 pp.0
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Critical Response IV: “Crystal Blue Persuasion”0
:Queer Velocities: Time, Sex, and Biopower on the Early Modern Stage.0
Ian James. The Technique of Thought: Nancy, Laruelle, Malabou, and Stiegler after Naturalism. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019. 247 pp.0
Karim Mattar. Specters of World Literature: Orientalism, Modernity, and the Novel in the Middle East. Edinburg: Edinburg University Press, 2020. 360 pp.0
:Fredric Jameson and Film Theory: Marxism, Allegory, and Geopolitics in World Cinema0
Emanuele Lugli. The Making of Measure and the Promise of Sameness. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019. 312 pp.0
:Understanding Barthes, Understanding Modernism0
:The Politics of Art: Dissent and Cultural Diplomacy in Lebanon, Palestine, and Jordan0
Critical Response VI:Creatures of Habit0
Mana Kia. Persianate Selves: Memories of Place and Origin Before Nationalism. Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press, 2020. 371 pp.0
:Free Indirect: The Novel in a Postfictional Age0
Fassbinder, Functionalism, and the Beauty of Braun Design0
Daniel M. Herskowitz. Heidegger and His Jewish Reception. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021. 346 pp.0
Maia Kotrosits. The Lives of Objects: Material Culture, Experience and the Real in the History of Early Christianity. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. 243 pp.0
Artificial Antisemitism: Critical Theory in the Age of Datafication0
When Movies Get Sick0
:Melancholy Acts: Defeat and Cultural Critique in the Arab World0
Daniela Flesler and Adrián Pérez Melgosa. The Memory Work of Jewish Spain. Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 2020. 390 pp.0
Walt Hunter. Forms of a World: Contemporary Poetry and the Making of Globalization. New York: Fordham University Press, 2019. 192 pp.0
:Stranger Fictions: A History of the Novel in Arabic Translation0
Gas Guzzling Gaia, or: A Prehistory of Climate Change Denialism0
Kevin Quashie. Black Aliveness, or a Poetics of Being. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2021. 248 pp.0
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How to Learn Together, Apart0
Molly Warnock. Simon Hantaï and the Reserves of Painting. University Park, Penn.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2020. 280 pp.0
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
Conceptual Scheming: L. J. Henderson, Practice, and the Harvard View of Science0
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From Work to Proof of Work: Meaning and Value after Blockchain0
Dinah Ribard. 1969: Michel Foucault et la question de l’auteur: “Qu’est-ce qu’un auteur?” Texte, présentation, et commentaire. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2019. 110 pp.0
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Marjorie Perloff. Infrathin: An Experiment in Micropoetics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. 240 pp.0
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Rachel Teukolsky. Picture World: Image, Aesthetics, and Victorian New Media. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. 480 pp.0
Anthropocene/Anthroposcene: Integrating Temporal and Spatial Aspects of Human-Planetary Interaction toward Ethical Adaptation0
:Dwelling in Fiction: Poetics of Place and the Experimental Novel in Latin America0
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A Situationist in Autumn: Guy Debord, Translator of Jorge Manrique0
Temporalities of Israel/Palestine: Culture and Politics0
The Sultan and the Golden Spike; or, What Stratigraphers Can Teach Us about Temporality0
Fabienne Verdier and the Force between Words0
Critical Response I: A Response to Benedict S. Robinson, “The True Story of Fictionality”0
:The Force of Truth: Critique, Genealogy, and Truth-Telling in Michel Foucault0
:Bread and Freedom: Egypt’s Revolutionary Situation0
Notational/Poetics: Noting, Gleaning, Itinerary0
Don Quixote and the Public0
Command of Media’s Metaphors0
Golden Age of Analog0
:Extraction Ecologies and the Literature of the Long Exhaustion0
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:Winning Lebanon: Youth Politics, Populism, and the Production of Sectarian Violence, 1920–19580
Anahid Nersessian. The Calamity Form: On Poetry and Social Life. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. 240 pp.0
Schematizations, or How to Draw a Thought0
Ground-Zero Empiricism0
Panofsky’s Debut0
Sensitivity and Sensing: Toward a Processual Media Theory of Electromagnetic Vibrations0
Is Barbarism with a Human Face Our Fate?0
Critical Response IV: This Photo Does Not Exist: Generativity and the AI Gaze0
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:The Arts of Disruption: Allegory and “Piers Plowman.”0
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Cressida J. Heyes. Anaesthetics of Existence: Essays on Experience at the Edge. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2020. 192 pp.0
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Dump Puppetry: Ecology, Play, and Object Performance0
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Brian Lennon Passwords: Philology, Security, Authentication. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2018. 229 pp.0
Critical Response III: Some Field Notes0
Karen Redrobe and Jeff Scheible, eds. Deep Mediations: Thinking Space in Cinema and Digital Culture. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2021. 416 pp.0
Alberto Manguel. Packing My Library: An Elegy and Ten Digressions. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2018. 146 pp.0
A Letter to Oliver Vogel0
:The Poverty of Ethics0
Skeptical Conditions0
:A Face Drawn in Sand: Humanistic Inquiry and Foucault in the Present0
Building Duration: Architecture Out of Adventure-Time0
:The Chapter: A Segmented History from Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century0
The True Story of Fictionality0
“The Problem of Style in the Visual Arts”0
Arguments for a New Aesthetic of Presence0
Caterina Scaramelli. How to Make a Wetland: Water and Moral Ecology in Turkey. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2021. 240 pp.0
Judith Butler. The Force of Nonviolence: An Ethico-Political Bind. New York: Verso, 2020. 209 pp.0
The Lyric It0
Anticipatory Care0
Hanging in the Air0
“Garments of Thought”: Writing Signs and the Critique of Logocentrism0
James Leo Cahill and Luca Caminati, eds. Cinema of Exploration: Essays on an Adventurous Film Practice. New York: Routledge, 2021. 348 pp.0
S. Pearl Brilmyer. The Science of Character: Human Objecthood and the Ends of Victorian Realism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022. 296 pp.0
Zeynep Çelik Alexander and John May. Design Technics: Archaeologies of Architectural Practice. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2020. 262 pp.0
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