OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The Universal Right to Breathe	77
Biopolitics in the Time of Coronavirus	46
Is This a Dress Rehearsal?	27
The Sultan and the Golden Spike; or, What Stratigraphers Can Teach Us about Temporality	21
On the Difference between Anthropocene and Climate Change Temporalities	16
Gas Guzzling Gaia, or: A Prehistory of Climate Change Denialism	16
Surplus Data: An Introduction	13
The Rise and Fall of Biopolitics: A Response to Bruno Latour	12
The Future Will Not Be Calculated: Neural Nets, Neoliberalism, and Reactionary Politics	9
Novel Corona: Posthuman Virus	9
In the Time of Pandemic, the Deep Structure of Biopower Is Laid Bare	9
Ground-Zero Empiricism	8
Golden Age of Analog	8
Criticism and Truth	7
Is Barbarism with a Human Face Our Fate?	7
From Work to Proof of Work: Meaning and Value after Blockchain	6
Recursive Philosophy and Negative Machines	6
Indexical AI	6
Foucault, Neoliberalism, and Equality	6
To Quarantine from Quarantine: Rousseau, Robinson Crusoe, and “I”	5
The Algorithm Concept, 1684–1958	5
Artificial Antisemitism: Critical Theory in the Age of Datafication	5
The Colonized Semites and the Infectious Disease: Theorizing and Narrativizing Anti-Semitism in the Levant, 1870–1914	5
Present Tense 2020: An Iconology of the Epoch	5
Everywhere and Nowhere: Reflections on Phenomenology as Impossible and Indispensable (in Psychology and Psychiatry)	5

Anthropocene/Anthroposcene: Integrating Temporal and Spatial Aspects of Human-Planetary Interaction toward Ethical Adaptation	4
Coronavirus: A Contingency that Eliminates Contingency	4
Microbiomimesis: Bacteria, Our Cognitive Collaborators	4
COVID-19 Metaphors	4
Archiving Praxis: For Palestine and Beyond	4
Wittgenstein in the Machine	4
Surrounding and Surrounded: Toward a Conceptual History of Environment	3
On Addressability, or What Even Is Computation?	3
The Art of Disciplined Imagination: Prediction, Scenarios, and Other Speculative Infrastructures	3
Media: The Case of Spain and New Spain	3
The Optical and the Environmental: From Screens to Screenscapes	3
Groundhog Day and theEpoché	3
Dispossession and Discontinuity: The Impact of the 1967 War on Palestinian Thought	3
Data as Symbolic Form: Datafication and the Imaginary Media of W. E. B. Du Bois	3
Viral Times	3
The Demon of Distraction	3
The Ecology of Form	3
Revisiting the Ferguson Report: Antiblack Concepts and the Practice of Policing	2
The Climatic Virus in an Age of Paralysis	2
Toward Dematerialization: Light, Medium, Environment	2
Anticipatory Care	2
Aesthetic Archaeology	2
Would a Shaman Help?	2
Temporalities of Israel/Palestine: Culture and Politics	2
On Cooperationism: An End to the Economic Plague	2
Big Earths of China: Remotely Sensing Xinjiang along the Belt and Road	2
On the Digital Ocean	2
Hanging in the Air	1
What the World Says: The Ottoman Empire, Interspecies Rape, and Climate in the Little Ice Age	1
On the Ruins of What’s to Come, I Stand: Time and Devastation in Syrian Cultural Production since 2011	1
Sonic Images of the Coronavirus	1
Carl Schmitt’sDon Quixote	1
Posts from the Pandemic: An Introduction	1
Computation and Interpretation in Literary Studies	1
Critical Response III: After Straight Pride	1
Facing Up to the Sovereign: Pak Sheung Cheun’s Nightmare Wallpaper and Hong Kong’s Despair	1
Set Design Thinking and the Art of the Human	1
The True Story of Fictionality	1
After Lucretius	1
Critical Response VI: Creatures of Habit	1
Don Quixote and the Public	1
Critical Response II: Diamonds and Rust	1
COVID-19/EXPOSE	1
How to Remain Human in the Wrong Space? A Comment on a Dialogue by Carl Schmitt	1
Connecting Breaths	1
Neoliberal Subjectivation: Between Foucault and Marx	1
Covidity	1
Max Weber’s Confucian Care of the Self	1
Karim Mattar. Specters of World Literature: Orientalism, Modernity, and the Novel in the Middle East. Edinburg: Edinburg University Press, 2020. 360 pp.	1
Gregory Zinman. Making Images Move: Handmade Cinema and the Other Arts. Oakland, Calif.: University of California Press, 2020. 392 pp.	1

How to Learn Together, Apart	1
You Have Been Misconnected	1
Granular Worlds: Situating the Sand Table in Media History	1
Critical Response IV: “Crystal Blue Persuasion”	1
Photography and Semiotics: Use and Purpose	1
Shay Hazkani. Dear Palestine: A Social History of the 1948 War. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2021. 352 pp.	1
Apostrophe, Animation, and Racism	1
Visual Literacy and 1960s Photography	1
The Philological Apparatus: Science, Text, and Nation in the Nineteenth Century	1
Contemporary Political Adventures of Meaning: What Is Hegemony?	1
Critical Response I: Queer Theory Continues to Take Shape	1
Retinal Justice: Rats, Maps, and Masks	1
Kenner’s Networks	1
What Is a Book? Kant and the Law of the Letter	1
OK, Zoomer!	1
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.	1
Peter Snowdon. The People Are Not an Image: Vernacular Video After the Arab Spring. New York: Verso Books, 2020. 304 pp.	1
Critical Response V: “Rather Like a Habit”	1
Stillness	1
:Radium of the Word: A Poetics of Materiality	0
Lee Wallace. Reattachment Theory: Queer Cinema of Remarriage. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2020. 247 pp.	0
:What Pornography Knows: Sex and Social Protest since the Eighteenth Century	0
The Art of Text-to-Speech	0
The Plant at the End of the World: Precious Okoyomon’s Invasive Art	0
:Health Communism	0
Samantha N. Sheppard. Sporting Blackness: Race, Embodiment, and Critical Muscle Memory on Screen. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2020. 264 pp.	0
Kafka’s Animal Machines	0
:Meir Kahane: The Public Life and Political Thought of an American Jewish Radical	0
Achille Mbembe. Brutalisme. Paris: Éditions La Découverte, 2020. 246 pp.	0
Victorian Equations	0
Hannah Zeavin. The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2021. 328 pp.	0
:Vernacular English: Reading the Anglophone in Postcolonial India	0
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.	0
Deborah A. Starr Togo Mizrahi and the Making of Egyptian Cinema. Stanford, Calif.: University of California Press, 2020. 252 pp.	0
Joseph Jonghyun Jeon. Vicious Circuits: Korea’s IMF Cinema and the End of the American Century. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2019. 248 pp.	0
After Turing: How Philosophy Migrated to the AI Lab	0
Queer Rigidity: Habit and the Limits of the Performativity Thesis	0
Jonathan Rauch. The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2021. 280 pp.	0
:Ideology and Politics	0
Bernard E. Harcourt. Critique and Praxis: A Radical Critical Philosophy of Illusions, Values, and Actions. New York: Columbia University Press. 696 pp.	0
Does Communist Art Exist?	0
The Weather in Sedgwick	0
Jing Wang. The Other Digital China: Nonconfrontational Activism on the Social Web. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2019. 320 pp.	0
Andil Gosine. Nature’s Wild: Love, Sex, and Law in the Caribbean. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2021. 192 pp.	0
“Understanding” Asians: Anti-Asian Racism, Sentimentality, Sentiment Analysis, and Digital Surveillance	0
The Incalculable: Thoughts on the Collapse of the Biosecurity Regime	0
:Screening Fears: On Protective Media	0
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
:Engaging Violence: Civility and the Reach of Literature	0
Critical Response I A Response to Jonathan Kramnick, “Criticism and Truth”	0
Harry Harootunian. The Unspoken as Heritage: The Armenian Genocide and Its Unaccounted Lives. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. 178 pp.	0
:Planetary Longings	0
Brian Winston and Matthew Winston. The Roots of Fake News: Objecting to Objective Journalism. New York: Routledge, 2021. 224 pp.	0
:Behind the Angel of History: The Angelus Novus and Its Interleaf	0
Dick Higgins Intermedia, Fluxus and the Something Else Press: Selected Writings by Dick Higgins, ed. Steve Clay and Ken Friedman. New York: Siglio Press, 2018. 363 pp.	0
Front Matter	0
:Nervous Systems: Art, Systems, and Politics since the 1960s	0
Margaret Hillenbrand. Negative Exposures: Knowing What Not to Know in Contemporary China. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2020. 292 pp.	0
Serial Unreading	0
Moshe Halbertal. Nahmanides: Law and Mysticism. Trans. Daniel Tabak. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2020. 434 pp.	0
Front Matter	0
:Material Inspirations: The Interests of the Art Object in the Nineteenth Century and After	0
James J. Hodge. Sensations of History: Animation and New Media Art. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019. 232 pp.	0
Front Matter	0
:The Privilege of Play: A History of Hobby Games, Race, and Geek Culture	0
:Poetry and Bondage: A History and Theory of Lyric Constraint	0
: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 against	0
:On Belonging and Not Belonging: Translation, Migration, Replacement	0
Nadya Bair. The Decisive Network: Magnum Photos and the Postwar Image. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2020. 336 pp.	0
Alicia Mireles Christoff. Novel Relations: Victorian Fiction and British Psychoanalysis. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2020. 288 pp.	0
:The Digitally Disposed: Racial Capitalism and the Informatics of Value	0
:Apropos of Something: A History of Irrelevance and Relevance	0
Christopher Clark. Time and Power: Visions of History in German Politics, from the Thirty Years’ War to the Third Reich. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2019. 293 pp.	0
Andrea Gadberry. Cartesian Poetics: The Art of Thinking. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. 206 pp.	0
Peter Limbrick. Arab Modernism as World Cinema: The Films of Moumen Smihi. Oakland: University of California Press, 2020. 302 pp.	0
Elleke Boehmer. Postcolonial Poetics: 21st-Century Critical Readings. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. 220 pp.	0
On the Fence: Media, Ecology, Marx	0
:Stop Thief! Anarchism and Philosophy	0
Pleistocene Park: Engineering Wilderness in a More-than-Human World	0
Seamus Deane. Small World: Ireland 1798–2018. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021. 364 pp.	0

:On the Edge: Feeling Precarious in China	0
Christopher S. Wood A History of Art History. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2019. 472 pp.	0
Reading Anew	0
Front Cover	0
Net-munity, or the Space between Us … Will Open the Future	0
Between Conformity and Dissent: Two Chinese Thinkers in Search of Esotericism	0
Race,Get Out, and the Advent of (Enforced) Skepticism	0
Iconoclash in Northern Italy circa 1500	0
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.	0
:Inventing the Alphabet: The Origins of Letters from Antiquity to the Present	0
:Maladies of the Will: The American Novel and the Modernity Problem	0
Eliza Steinbock. Shimmering Images: Trans Cinema, Embodiment, and the Aesthetics of Change. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2019. 248 pp.	0
:Psychomotor Aesthetics: Movement and Affect in Modern Literature and Film	0
Joan Wallach Scott On the Judgment of History. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. 114 pp.	0
:Thresholds, Encounters: Paul Celan and the Claim of Philology	0
Thinking on Film with Arendt and Cavell	0
The Draw of the Mark	0
Jonathan Hall. Reaction Formations: Dialogism, Ideology, and Capitalist Culture: The Creation of the Modern Unconscious. Boston: Brill, 2019. 286 pp.	0
Alenda Y. Chang. Playing Nature: Ecology in Video Games. Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 2019. 281 pp.	0
Critical Response II: A Response to Catherine Gallagher	0
Amia Srinivasan. The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021. 304 pp.	0
:Professing Criticism: Essays on the Organization of Literary Study	0
Reading as if for Death	0
:“The Savage Detectives” Reread	0
Ryan Johnson. Transnationalism and Translation in Modern Chinese, English, French and Japanese Literatures. New York: Anthem Press, 2021. 216 pp.	0
:Fragments: The Existential Situation of Our Time and Filaments: Theological Profiles, vols. 1–2 of Selected Essays	0
Front Cover	0
Joachim J. Savelsberg. Knowing about Genocide: Armenian Suffering and Epistemic Struggles. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2021. 264 pp.	0
:Bad Education: Why Queer Theory Teaches Us Nothing	0
:Book, Text, Medium: Cross-Sectional Reading for a Digital Age	0
Sensitivity and Sensing: Toward a Processual Media Theory of Electromagnetic Vibrations	0
Craig Dworkin. Dictionary Poetics: Toward a Radical Lexicography. New York: Fordham University Press, 2020. 272 pp.	0
Eric Hayot. Humanist Reason: A History. An Argument. A Plan. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021. 324 pp.	0
Geraldine Heng. The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages. Cambridge, Mass.: Cambridge University Press, 2018. 510 pp.	0
:The Matter of Black Living: The Aesthetic Experiment of Racial Data, 1880–1930	0
Front Matter	0
Tavia Nyong’o. Afro-Fabulations: The Queer Drama of Black Life. New York: NYU Press, 2019. 280 pp.	0
Xiao Liu. Information Fantasies: Precarious Mediation in Postsocialist China. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019. 318 pp.	0
Front Matter	0
S. Rebecca Martin and Stephanie M. Langin-Hooper. The Tiny and the Fragmented: Miniature, Broken or Otherwise Incomplete Objects from the Ancient World. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.	0
:Pathologies of Motion: Historical Thinking in Medicine, Aesthetics, and Poetics	0
:Digital Lethargy: Dispatches from an Age of Disconnection	0
The HUAC Othello	0
:The Origins of Russian Literary Theory: Folklore, Philology, Form	0
Contemporary Political Adventures of Meaning: What Is a Floating Signifier?	0
Michel Mourlet’s “On a Misunderstood Art (1959)”: Plunging Back into the Screen	0
Algorithmic Abduction: Robots for Alien Reading	0
Travis Vogan. The Boxing Film: A Cultural and Transmedia History. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2021. 208 pp.	0
:The Plastic Turn	0
:Countries That Don’t Exist: Selected Nonfiction	0
Michael Rothberg. The Implicated Subject: Beyond Victims and Perpetrators. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2019. 288 pp.	0
The Reification of the World: Poetry and Conquest in Marcel Broodthaers’s Maps	0
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 Writings	0
Just Sabotage	0
Doron Galili. Seeing by Electricity: The Emergence of Television, 1878–1939. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2020. 247 pp.	0
Tina Young Choi. Victorian Contingencies: Experiments in Literature, Science, and Play. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2022. 246 pp.	0
Richard Menke. Literature, Print Culture, and Media Technologies, 1880–1900: Many Inventions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 259 pages.	0
Old Trees, Wild Rivers: CI at Fifty	0
:Creatures of the Air: Music, Atlantic Spirits, Breath, 1817–1913	0
Meredith A. Bak. Playful Visions: Optical Toys and the Emergence of Children’s Media Culture. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2020. 288 pp.	0
Rachel Sagner Buurma and Laura Heffernan. The Teaching Archive: A New History for Literary Study. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. 320 pp.	0
Michael Clune. A Defense of Judgment. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. 256 pp.	0
Lines Left to Cross: Deglobalization and the Domestic Western in Bong Joon-ho’sParasite	0
Trans Romance: Queer Intimacy and the Problem of Inexistence in the Modern Novel	0
Tessa Morris-Suzuki. Japan’s Living Politics: Grassroots Action and the Crises of Democracy. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. 236 pp.	0
Front Cover	0
:Operation Valhalla: Writings on War, Weapons, and Media	0
Hans Blumenberg. History, Metaphors, Fables: A Hans Blumenberg Reader. Trans. Hannes Bajohr, Florian Fuchs, and Joe Paul Kroll. New York: Cornell University Press, 2020. 609 pp.	0
:The Machines of Evolution and the Scope of Meaning	0
Braxton Soderman. Against Flow: Video Games and the Flowing Subject. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2021. 328 pp.	0
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Sally Stein. Migrant Mother, Migrant Gender: Reconsidering Dorothea Lange’s Iconic Portrait of Maternity. London: Mack, 2020. 117 pp.	0
Reading between Freedom and Necessity	0
“Respirators, Not Furnished”: On Reading Muriel Rukeyser in the Pandemic and Other Disasters	0
Front Cover	0
A Peripheral Vision: Framing the Cultural Bias in the Center of Photography	0
Front Matter	0
:Guantánamo Frames	0
Introduction: Medium/Environment	0
:Emancipation after Hegel: Achieving a Contradictory Revolution	0
Derek Jarman and Everything That Is the Case	0
Thomas Piketty. Capital and Ideology. Trans. Arthur Goldhammer. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2020. 1104 pp.	0
Front Cover	0
Fiftieth Anniversary	0
Critical Response IIReply to John Brenkman	0
:A Black Gaze: Artists Changing How We See	0
Kate Crawford. Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2021. 336 pp.	0
Susanne von Falkenhausen. Beyond the Mirror: Seeing in Art History and Visual Culture Studies. Bielefeld: transcript, 2020. 251 pp.	0
Ecomedia in the Wild: Camera Traps, Geiger Counters, and Radioactive Boars	0
Dina Danon. The Jews of Ottoman Izmir: A Modern History. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2020. 241 pp.	0
Neetu Khanna. The Visceral Logics of Decolonization. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2020. 200 pp.	0
Susan Stewart. The Ruins Lesson: Meaning and Material in Western Culture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. 379 pp.	0
John Sharp and David Thomas. Fun, Taste, & Games: An Aesthetics of the Idle, Unproductive, and Otherwise Playful. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2019. 239 pp.	0
Front Cover	0
:The Afterlife of Moses: Exile, Democracy, Renewal	0