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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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Baudrillard and Heidegger: Between Two Deaths	207
Machine Learning, Synthetic Data, and the Politics of Difference	59
Michel Serres and the Philosophy of Technology	56
Andrew Feenberg, The Ruthless Critique of Everything Existing	43
Artificial Intelligence and the Production of Judicial Truth	34
Decolonial and Ontological Challenges in Social and Anthropological Theory	32
Why Do Experts and Amateurs Diverge in Their Tastings? A Pragmatic Analysis of Perception	30
Rethinking Posthumanist Subjectivity: Technology as Ontological Murder in European Colonialism	26
Interview with Werner Bonefeld: Open Marxism and the Critique of Society	25
The Disunity in Genealogy: Foucault’s Anti-Nietzschean Reading of History	25
The Action of Non-Action: Walter Benjamin, Wu Wei and the Nature of Capitalism	20
Towards a Minor Logistics: Community and Ecology in a Watershed Project	18
Jacob Rogozinski, The Logic of Hatred: From Witch Hunts to the Terror RogozinskiJacobThe Logic of Hatred: From Witch Hunts to the TerrorNew York: Fordham	17
Black Studies as Field Theory: Culture as Infrastructure	17
Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan, Code: From Information Theory to French Theory	13
Re-Reading Zhang Taiyan against François Jullien: Ontology and Political Critique in Chinese Thought	12
Interview with Andreas Reckwitz: A Society of Singularities	12
Male Subcultures in Japan: Generating Sexual Capital and Gender-Class Mobility in a Low Birth Society	11
An Alienated Emancipation? Todd McGowan in Conversation	10
Nietzsche, Ontology, and Foucault’s Critical Project: To Perish from Absolute Knowledge	10
The Solutionist Ethic and the Spirit of Digital Capitalism	9
Notes on Structuralism: Introduction	8
The Antinomy of the Anthropocene: The Narrative of Enlightenment in Dipesh Chakrabarty’s Ecological Theory	8
Rethinking Critical Sociology, Transcending the Transcendental	8
Bruno Latour, Pragmatism and Politics: A Researcher on a Mission	8

Against Renaissance Perspective: The Soaring Gaze	7
Animal Cultures at the Edge of Extinction	7
Towards an Ontology of Contemporary Reality?	7
Pastorate Digitalized: Social Media and (De)Subjectification	6
Latent Freedom in Videogames	6
Chromorganization and Business Organization BeyesTimonOrganizing Color: Towards a Chromatics of the Social. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2024, 292 pp. ISBN: 978-1503638303	6
Judith Butler: Life, Philosophy, Politics, Ethics: E-Special Issue Introduction	6
Narratives of Post-Truth: Lyotard and the Epistemic Fragmentation of Society	6
Reflections on the Turn to Ageism in Contemporary Cultural Discourse	6
An Interview with Luc Boltanski and Arnaud Esquerre on Enrichment: A Critique of Commodities	6
Analyzing Narrative: Roland Barthes’ Forgotten Interview	6
Technodiversity, Political Form, and the Task of Planetary Thinking: A Conversation with Yuk Hui	5
Embodying Resistance: Politics and the Mobilization of Vulnerability	5
Foucault Before the Collège de France	5
Human-Animal Relations: The Ontological Turn and the Return of Humanism	5
From Computer Science to ‘Hermeneutic Web’: Towards a Contributory Design for Digital Technologies	5
By Way of Resemblance: On Benjamin’s Daoist Renewal of Dialectics	5
With and after the Inquiry: How Do We Pragmatically Move from the Moderns to the Contemporaries?	5
The Jews Killed Moses: Sigmund Freud and the Jewish Question	4
What Demarcates Necropolitics from Biopolitics? A Foucauldian Critique of Mbembe	4
The Politics of Clinic and Critique in Southern Brazil	4
Rethinking Human-Smartphone Interaction with Deleuze, Guattari, and Polanyi	4
Against Posthumanism: Notes towards an Ethopolitics of Personhood	4
Third Nature: On Shu Lea Cheang’s Film UKI and Nature’s Infestations of Technology	4
The Recording Cure: A Media Genealogy of Recorded Voice in Psychotherapy	4
Race, Capitalism, and the Necessity/Contingency Debate	4
Mary Douglas on Purity and Danger: An Interview	3
The Unhomely Colonial Home: Reflections on Moufida Tlatli, Leïla Slimani and Albert Camus	3
Is Anti-totalitarian Theory Still Relevant? The Example of Claude Lefort	3
Jullien the Apostate	3
Epidemic and Insurance: Two Forms of Solidarity	3
Decolonising the Earth: Anticolonial Environmentalism and the Soil of Empire	3
Michel Serres’ Neglected Political Ecology in Dialogue with Bruno Latour’s Figure of Gaia	3
Neoliberalism’s Persistence and the Struggle for What Comes After FraserNancyThe Old Is Dying and the New Cannot Be BornLondon: Verso, 2019, 64 pp. ISBN 978-1788732727BrownWendyIn the Ruins of Neolibe	3
Rizvana Bradley, Anteaesthetics: Black Aesthesis and the Critique of Form BradleyRizvanaAnteaesthetics: Black Aesthesis and the Critique of FormStanford:	3
Plants Against Property: Japanese Knotweed as Companion Species	3
Agamben’s Politics of the Performative	3
Faith in Fugitive Time: Safiya Sinclair’s Poetic Temporalities of Racialization	3
Post-punk, Industrial Culture Zines, and the Information Dark Age	3
Popular Art, Crime and Urban Order Beyond the State	3
The Logic of the Synthetic Supplement in Algorithmic Societies	3
Decolonializing Climate Crisis: Theorizing Australian Black Summer Fires as Posthumanist and Indigenous Convergence	3
What Is a Neganthropic Institution?	3
On the Varieties of Experience of Art	2
The ‘Optimistic Cruelty’ of Hayek’s Market Order: Neoliberalism, Pain and Social Selection	2
Corporate Public Spheres between Refeudalization and Revitalization	2
Art, Extractivism, and the Ontological Shift: Toward a (Post)Extractivist Aesthetics	2
Life or Being: What Possible Existence between Being and Living?	2
Organizing Counterpublics: Scenes from Contemporary Russia	2
Ontology or Theology? François Jullien and Chinese Vitalism	2

Justice, Injustice and the Work of Julia Kristeva	2
Comparing Artificial, Animal and Scientific Intelligence: A Dialogue with Giuseppe Longo	2
Financial Eschatology and the Libidinal Economy of Leverage	2
The Oceanic Feeling: Experiencing the Eternal through Swimming	2
Between Habermas and Lyotard: Rethinking the Contrast between Modernity and Postmodernity	2
Entropy and Entropic Differences in the Work of Michel Serres	2
Jeremy Bentham and the Neoclassical and Neoliberal Traditions: Architect or Adversary?	2
I Exist, Therefore the World Thinks: Whitehead, Latour and the Scientific Aesthetics	2
Conceptualising Suspended Life: From Latency to Liminality	2
Pandemic Adjustments and Logistical Power	2
A New Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere? An Introduction	2
François Jullien’s Landscape, Site Selection, and Pattern Recognition	2
Constructing Comparables	2
Counter-Extremism and ‘Critical Thinking’ as a Measure of the Human	2
From the Confessional Booth to Digital Enclosures: Absolution as Cultural Technique	2
Digital Transformations and the Ideological Formation of the Public Sphere: Hegemonic, Populist, or Popular Communication?	2
The Devil’s Interval: Grand Challenges and Transdisciplinarity in the Anthropocene	1
Bruno Latour and Translation	1
With and against Max Weber: A Conversation with Wendy Brown on Politics and Scholarship in Nihilistic Times	1
Rhetoric as Critique: Towards a Rhetorical Philosophy	1
Epigenomics and the Xenoformed Earth: Bioinformatic Ruminations with Gilbert Simondon	1
On Narrative: An Interview with Roland Barthes	1
Cultural Cosmopolitanism as Habits in Everyday Life	1
Bruno Latour, Writer	1
Guy Debord, an Untimely Aristocrat	1
Activating Academic Voice: Explorations of the Media Landscape	1
Bourdieu, Lacan and Field Theory: Neoliberal Doxa in the Economic Field	1
Alienated Leisure: Reflections on The Tourist	1
Social Media and the Digital Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere	1
The Brutalization of the World: Achille Mbembe, Brutalism	1
‘No Justice, No Peace’: Black Radicalism and the Atmospheres of the Internal Colony	1
Neoliberalism and Post-Truth: Expertise and the Market Model	1
Love, Games and Gamification: Gambling and Gaming as Techniques of Modern Romantic Love	1
Intimacy and the Transformation of the Public Sphere	1
Orienting Care: Boris Groys, Philosophy of Care	1
Interview with Renato Ortiz: Intersections between Sociology and Anthropology	1
Necropolitics and Surplus Life: Mbembe and Beyond	1
Staying with the Secret: The Public Sphere in Platform Society	1
Between Is Not Being	1
Thanks to Reviewers	1
The Land of the Moderns: The Sense of Latour’s Pragmatism	1
Freud’s Media: Transference, Metaphor, and Nineteenth-Century Print Culture	1
Ecodependence: The Intrinsic Connection between Living and Killing	1
Agamben and Platonic Communism: An Interpretation of The Coming Community	1
Artistic Activism and Museum Accountability: Staging Antagonism in the Cultural Sphere	1
QAnon and the Epistemic Communities of the Unreal: A Conceptual Toolkit for a Sociology of Grassroots Conspiracism	1
After the Expansion: The Japanese University Crisis and a Vision of the Post-University	1
Inheriting Cosmopolitics: Pericles, Whitehead, Stengers	1
Life Deactivated: Philosophies on the End of the World	1
Flattery, Truth-telling, and Social Theory	1
Mutual Futurity: Rethinking Incommensurability between Indigenous Sovereignty and Black Freedom	1
Vitalist Marxism: Georges Canguilhem and the Resistance of Life	1
Reflections and Hypotheses on a Further Structural Transformation of the Political Public Sphere	1
Annual Index – Volume 41, 2024	1
Another Age of Anxiety: Psychological Distress and the ‘Asset Economy’	1
Political Theology: Origins, Concepts, and Contradictions	1
The Cultural Politics of Artificial Intelligence in China	1
What Social Research Can Learn from Archaeology: Comparison as Juxtaposition and Conduction	1
Žižek at the Buchmesse : Evil, Cancel Culture, and the Difficulty of Diversity	1
Narratives of Resistance: Foucault’s Case Studies and the History of Transgression	1
The Subject of AI: A Psychoanalytic Intervention	1
Human Interest: Usury from Luther to Bentham	1
Trans Embodiment: Notes on Building a House You Don’t Want to Live In	1
The Scapegoat: Violence, Law and Origin	1
Cruel Optimism as an Ecology of Powers	1
Urban Futures, Climate Migration, and Platform Logistics of 21st-Century City Systems	1
Bernard Stiegler and the Internation Project: An Introduction	1
Imagining ‘Our Ancestors’: Liberal Indigeneity and the Repudiation of Colonialism in Postimperial Britain	1
For Heaven-Human Conviviality: Reflections on Some ‘Ontological’ Narratives	1
Unseating Mastery: The University and the Promise of the New	1
The Crab’s Efficacy	1
Transforming Toxic Materialities: Microbes in Anthropogenically Polluted Soils	1