OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Theory Culture & Society is 1. 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
Reflections and Hypotheses on a Further Structural Transformation of the Political Public Sphere	111
Post-Neoliberalism? An Introduction	66
Beyond Human: Deep Learning, Explainability and Representation	36
Towards Neuroecosociality: Mental Health in Adversity	35
A New Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere? An Introduction	33
Social Media and the Digital Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere	32
Neoliberalism, the Alt-Right and the Intellectual Dark Web	31
Decolonial and Ontological Challenges in Social and Anthropological Theory	30
Postcolonial Global Health, Post-Colony Microbes and Antimicrobial Resistance	22
François Jullien’s Landscape, Site Selection, and Pattern Recognition	22
Orbán’s Ordonationalism as Post-Neoliberal Hegemony	22
Drone Power: Conservation, Humanitarianism, Policing and War	21
What Is an Environmental Problem?	21
Social Media Filters and Resonances: Democracy and the Contemporary Public Sphere	21
Post-Truth, the Future of Democracy and the Public Sphere	18
Michel Serres and the Philosophy of Technology	18
Software, Sovereignty and the Post-Neoliberal Politics of Exit	18
Digital Transformations and the Ideological Formation of the Public Sphere: Hegemonic, Populist, or Popular Communication?	18
Nudge Economics as Libertarian Paternalism	17
Problems All the Way Down	17
The Backlash Against Neoliberal Globalization from Above: Elite Origins of the Crisis of the New Constitutionalism	17
Online Conspiracy Theories, Digital Platforms and Secondary Orality: Toward a Sociology of Online Monsters	15
The Alt-Right: Neoliberalism, Libertarianism and the Fascist Temptation	15
Moral Universalism at a Time of Political Regression: A Conversation with Jürgen Habermas about the Present and His Life’s Work	14
The Dividual: Digital Practices and Biotechnologies	13

Introducing Solid Fluids	12
Progressive Social Movements and the Creation of European Public Spheres	11
The Revenge of Sovereignty on Government? The Release of Neoliberal Politics from Economics Post-2008	11
Interactive Computation and Artificial Epistemologies	10
Emotions and the Systematization of Connective Labor	10
The Tempo of Solid Fluids: On River Ice, Permafrost, and Other Melting Matter in the Mackenzie Delta	8
Against Posthumanism: Notes towards an Ethopolitics of Personhood	8
Financial Eschatology and the Libidinal Economy of Leverage	8
Miyazaki Hayao’s Animism and the Anthropocene	8
Power, Freedom and Obedience in Foucault and La Boétie: Voluntary Servitude as the Problem of Government	7
Amateurs’ Exploration of Wine: A Pragmatic Study of Taste	7
Oceans as the Paradigm of History	7
Animism in the Anthropocene	7
On Disgrace: Scandal, Discredit and Denunciation within and across Fields	7
Race, Capitalism, and the Necessity/Contingency Debate	7
The Philosophy of Bitcoin and the Question of Money	7
The Political Economy of Revolution: Karl Polanyi in Tahrir Square	7
Corporate Public Spheres between Refeudalization and Revitalization	6
Invisibility, Colors, Snow: Arctic Biosemiotics and the Violence of Climate Change	6
Archaeological Methodology: Foucault and the History of Systems of Thought	6
Reflections on the Contemporary Public Sphere: An Interview with Judith Butler	6
Fanon’s Psychiatric Hospital as a Waystation to Freedom	6
Fictionality in New Materialism: (Re)Inventing Matter	6
Simondon Contra New Materialism: Political Anthropology Reloaded	6
Staying with the Secret: The Public Sphere in Platform Society	6
China’s Post-Socialist Governmentality and the Garlic Chives Meme: Economic Sovereignty and Biopolitical Subjects	5
Planetary Cities: Fluid Rock Foundations of Civilization	5
The Solutionist Ethic and the Spirit of Digital Capitalism	5
Aporias of Ecological Thought	5
The Joke-Secret and an Ethics of Modern Individuality: From Freud to Simmel	5
Towards an Ontology of Contemporary Reality?	5
Conceptualising Suspended Life: From Latency to Liminality	5
Technics, Time and the Internation: Bernard Stiegler’s Thought – A Dialogue with Daniel Ross	5
A Solid Fluids Lexicon	5
The ‘Cultures’ of Global Mental Health	5
Speculative Empiricism, Nature and the Question of Predatory Abstractions: A Conversation with Didier Debaise	5
Existing in Discrete States: On the Techno-Aesthetics of Algorithmic Being-in-Time	4
Neoliberalism and Post-Truth: Expertise and the Market Model	4
Contemporary Art and Event-Based Social Theory	4
Interview with Andreas Reckwitz: A Society of Singularities	4
Rethinking Posthumanist Subjectivity: Technology as Ontological Murder in European Colonialism	4
Faith and Knowledge: Habermas’ Alternative History of Philosophy¹	4
In-between Solidity and Fluidity: The Reclaimed Marshlands of Agro Pontino	4
Whither Globalization? An Interview with Roland Robertson	4
Entropy and Entropic Differences in the Work of Michel Serres	3
‘No Justice, No Peace’: Black Radicalism and the Atmospheres of the Internal Colony	3
Declarations of Dependence: On the Constitution of the Anthropocene	3
Reflections on the Turn to Ageism in Contemporary Cultural Discourse	3
Michel Foucault in the 1950s: Beyond Psychology towards Radical Ontology	3
The ‘Optimistic Cruelty’ of Hayek’s Market Order: Neoliberalism, Pain and Social Selection	3

Mapping Logistical Capitalism	3
Neoliberalism and the Defence of the Corporation	3
The Making of the Experimental Subject: Apparatus, Automatism, and the Anxiety of the Early Avant-Garde	3
Colloidal Social Theory: Thinking about Material Animacy and Sociality beyond Solids and Fluids	3
Elemental Memory: The Solid Fluidity of the Elements in the Nuclear Era	3
Ranking Art: Paradigmatic Worldviews in the Quantification and Evaluation of Contemporary Art	3
A Psychoanalytic Case for Anti-capitalism as an Organisational Form	3
Coloniality and the State: Race, Nation and Dependency	3
Introduction: Algorithmic Thought	3
Epidemic and Insurance: Two Forms of Solidarity	3
Reforesting Native America with Drones: Rooting Carbon with Arborescent Governmentality and Decolonial Geoengineering	3
Solidifying Grounds: The Intricate Art of Foundation Building	3
Symbiosis and the Humanitarian Marketplace: The Changing Political Economy of ‘Mutual Benefit’	3
Roses: A Social Hypothesis	2
The Cynic Scandal: Parrhesia, Community, and Democracy	2
Megamachines, Forms of Reticulation and the Limits of Calculability	2
Love, Games and Gamification: Gambling and Gaming as Techniques of Modern Romantic Love	2
An Interview with Jean-Luc Nancy on Literature, Philosophy and the Present	2
Ontology or Theology? François Jullien and Chinese Vitalism	2
Linguistics and Social Sciences	2
Interview with Wu Ming 1: QAnon, Collective Creativity, and the (Ab)uses of Enchantment	2
Narratives of Post-Truth: Lyotard and the Epistemic Fragmentation of Society	2
Ethics in Jacques Lafitte’s Mechanology	2
Philosophical Discourse and Ascetic Practice: On Foucault’s Readings of Descartes’ Meditations	2
Popular Art, Crime and Urban Order Beyond the State	2
Ursula Le Guin’s Speculative Anthropology: Thick Description, Historicity and Science Fiction	2
Interview with Brian Massumi: From the Ecology of Powers to an Aesthetics of the Earth	2
Sartre and Marion on Intentionality and Phenomenality	2
Re-thinking the Liquid Core of Capitalism with Hyman Minsky	2
Chinese Television in Africa	2
Coloniality, Epistemic Imbalance, and Africa’s Emigration Crisis	2
Inheriting Cosmopolitics: Pericles, Whitehead, Stengers	2
Michel Serres’ Neglected Political Ecology in Dialogue with Bruno Latour’s Figure of Gaia	2
Artistic Activism and Museum Accountability: Staging Antagonism in the Cultural Sphere	1
Moral Injury and the Psyche of Counterinsurgency	1
Projective Imagination: Vilém Flusser’s Concept of the Technical Image	1
Bourdieu, Lacan and Field Theory: Neoliberal Doxa in the Economic Field	1
Viscosity in Matter, Life and Sociality: The Case of Glacial Ice	1
Rethinking Human-Smartphone Interaction with Deleuze, Guattari, and Polanyi	1
Pierre Bourdieu: E-Special Issue Introduction	1
Herbert Marcuse Today: On Ecological Destruction, Neofascism, White Supremacy, Hate Speech, Racist Police Killings, and the Radical Goals of Socialism	1
Dub, Utopia and the Ruins of the Caribbean	1
Performance as Social Resistance: Pussy Riot as a Feminist Avant-garde	1
Capitalism, Democracy, and Territorial Forms of Exception: Quinn Slobodian, Crack-Up Capitalism	1
For Heaven-Human Conviviality: Reflections on Some ‘Ontological’ Narratives	1
The Relevance of Herbert Marcuse’s Thought Today: Or the Historical Fate of Bourgeois Democracy in and Beyond the Neoliberal Era	1
The Logic of the Synthetic Supplement in Algorithmic Societies	1
Rhetoric as Critique: Towards a Rhetorical Philosophy	1
Field Theory and Assemblage Theory: Toward a Constructive Dialogue	1
The Recording Cure: A Media Genealogy of Recorded Voice in Psychotherapy	1
Comparing Artificial, Animal and Scientific Intelligence: A Dialogue with Giuseppe Longo	1
Did Foucault Find a ‘Way Out’ of Hegel?	1
Transforming Toxic Materialities: Microbes in Anthropogenically Polluted Soils	1
Analyzing Narrative: Roland Barthes’ Forgotten Interview	1
Bataille: Image and Victim	1
Deep Time and Microtime: Anthropocene Temporalities and Silicon Valley’s Longtermist Scope	1
An Interview with Luc Boltanski and Arnaud Esquerre on Enrichment: A Critique of Commodities	1
Biosemiotics and Religion: Theoretical Perspectives on Language, Society and the Supernatural	1
Art, Affect, and Social Media in the ‘No Dakota Access Pipeline’ Movement	1
On the Varieties of Experience of Art	1
Detour and Dao: Benjamin, with Jullien, contra the Ontology of the Event	1
Foucault’s Critique of the Human Sciences in the 1950s: Between Psychology and Philosophy	1
Georg Simmel 2020 – Beyond the First Centenary of His Death	1
Contingency and Mysticism from Economics to Finance: Knight, Ayache, DeLillo	1
Vitalist Marxism: Georges Canguilhem and the Resistance of Life	1
Neo-Despotism as Anti-Despotism	1
Dilemmas of Political Agency and Sovereignty: The Omelian Allegory	1
‘Enrichment’ as a Pragmatist and Structuralist Contribution to Economic Sociology: Perspectives on the Approach of Economics and Sociology of Conventions	1
Crisis, Experience, ‘Excentricity’	1
Archaeological Stratigraphy and the Bifurcation of Time: Solido intra solidum	1