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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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Michel Serres and the Philosophy of Technology	45
Situating Castoriadis: Radical Democracy, Political Ontology, and the ‘Turn’ to Imagination	26
Machine Learning, Synthetic Data, and the Politics of Difference	23
The Disunity in Genealogy: Foucault’s Anti-Nietzschean Reading of History	22
Andrew Feenberg, The Ruthless Critique of Everything Existing	21
Why Do Experts and Amateurs Diverge in Their Tastings? A Pragmatic Analysis of Perception	21
Interview with Werner Bonefeld: Open Marxism and the Critique of Society	15
Artificial Intelligence and the Production of Judicial Truth	13
Elias’s Ghanaian Essays ReicherDieterJitschinAdrianPostArjanAlikhaniBehrouz (eds) Norbert Elias’s African Processes of Civilisation: On the Formation of Survival Units in Ghana. New York: Springer, 20	12
Rethinking Posthumanist Subjectivity: Technology as Ontological Murder in European Colonialism	12
Towards a Minor Logistics: Community and Ecology in a Watershed Project	11
An Alienated Emancipation? Todd McGowan in Conversation	10
Black Studies as Field Theory: Culture as Infrastructure	10
Organic Neoliberalism: A.O. Hirschman’s ‘Exit Option’ and Grassroots Processes of Marketization	10
Male Subcultures in Japan: Generating Sexual Capital and Gender-Class Mobility in a Low Birth Society	10
Re-Reading Zhang Taiyan against François Jullien: Ontology and Political Critique in Chinese Thought	9
Notes on Structuralism: Introduction	9
The Action of Non-Action: Walter Benjamin, Wu Wei and the Nature of Capitalism	9
Jacob Rogozinski, The Logic of Hatred: From Witch Hunts to the Terror RogozinskiJacobThe Logic of Hatred: From Witch Hunts to the TerrorNew York: Fordham	8
Rethinking Critical Sociology, Transcending the Transcendental	8
Nietzsche, Ontology, and Foucault’s Critical Project: To Perish from Absolute Knowledge	8
Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan, Code: From Information Theory to French Theory	8
Interview with Andreas Reckwitz: A Society of Singularities	7
Narratives of Post-Truth: Lyotard and the Epistemic Fragmentation of Society	7
Towards an Ontology of Contemporary Reality?	7

The Solutionist Ethic and the Spirit of Digital Capitalism	7
An Interview with Luc Boltanski and Arnaud Esquerre on Enrichment: A Critique of Commodities	7
Pastorate Digitalized: Social Media and (De)Subjectification	6
Judith Butler: Life, Philosophy, Politics, Ethics: E-Special Issue Introduction	6
Against Renaissance Perspective: The Soaring Gaze	6
The Antinomy of the Anthropocene: The Narrative of Enlightenment in Dipesh Chakrabarty’s Ecological Theory	6
Animal Cultures at the Edge of Extinction	5
Bruno Latour, Pragmatism and Politics: A Researcher on a Mission	5
Analyzing Narrative: Roland Barthes’ Forgotten Interview	5
From Computer Science to ‘Hermeneutic Web’: Towards a Contributory Design for Digital Technologies	5
Chromorganization and Business Organization BeyesTimonOrganizing Color: Towards a Chromatics of the Social. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2024, 292 pp. ISBN: 978-1503638303	5
Reflections on the Turn to Ageism in Contemporary Cultural Discourse	5
By Way of Resemblance: On Benjamin’s Daoist Renewal of Dialectics	5
The Time of the Snail: Castoriadis, Zapatista Autonomy and the Radical Imaginary Today	5
Latent Freedom in Videogames	5
With and after the Inquiry : How Do We Pragmatically Move from the Moderns to the Contemporaries?	5
Prompt Culture: From Lines to Surfaces in AI Image Generation	4
The Recording Cure: A Media Genealogy of Recorded Voice in Psychotherapy	4
What Demarcates Necropolitics from Biopolitics? A Foucauldian Critique of Mbembe	4
Race, Capitalism, and the Necessity/Contingency Debate	4
Embodying Resistance: Politics and the Mobilization of Vulnerability	4
Foucault Before the Collège de France	4
Picturing Trauma: Freud, Resilience and Visual Agency in the Neurosciences	4
Post-punk, Industrial Culture Zines, and the Information Dark Age	4
Technodiversity, Political Form, and the Task of Planetary Thinking: A Conversation with Yuk Hui	4
Human-Animal Relations: The Ontological Turn and the Return of Humanism	4
The Jews Killed Moses: Sigmund Freud and the Jewish Question	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
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
The Dwelling Question: A Critical Theory of the Bourgeois Home	3
Rizvana Bradley, Anteaesthetics: Black Aesthesis and the Critique of Form BradleyRizvanaAnteaesthetics: Black Aesthesis and the Critique of FormStanford:	3
Metabolo-politics: Bovine Metabolism and Environmental Biopower	3
Plants Against Property: Japanese Knotweed as Companion Species	3
Constructing Comparables	3
Jullien the Apostate	3
The Unhomely Colonial Home: Reflections on Moufida Tlatli, Leïla Slimani and Albert Camus	3
Faith in Fugitive Time: Safiya Sinclair’s Poetic Temporalities of Racialization	3
Michel Serres’ Neglected Political Ecology in Dialogue with Bruno Latour’s Figure of Gaia	3
What Is a Neganthropic Institution?	3
Decolonializing Climate Crisis: Theorizing Australian Black Summer Fires as Posthumanist and Indigenous Convergence	3
François Jullien’s Landscape, Site Selection, and Pattern Recognition	3
Decolonising the Earth: Anticolonial Environmentalism and the Soil of Empire	3
Mary Douglas on Purity and Danger : An Interview	3
Is Anti-totalitarian Theory Still Relevant? The Example of Claude Lefort	3
The Logic of the Synthetic Supplement in Algorithmic Societies	3
Planet Electric: Revisiting The Nomos of the Earth	3
Agamben’s Politics of the Performative	3
Counter-Extremism and ‘Critical Thinking’ as a Measure of the Human	3
Space in Common? Property, Waste and Their Colonial Lives in the Cosmos	2

Conceptualising Suspended Life: From Latency to Liminality	2
Epigenomics and the Xenoformed Earth: Bioinformatic Ruminations with Gilbert Simondon	2
Jeremy Bentham and the Neoclassical and Neoliberal Traditions: Architect or Adversary?	2
Comparing Artificial, Animal and Scientific Intelligence: A Dialogue with Giuseppe Longo	2
Art, Extractivism, and the Ontological Shift: Toward a (Post)Extractivist Aesthetics	2
Life or Being: What Possible Existence between Being and Living?	2
The Oceanic Feeling: Experiencing the Eternal through Swimming	2
I Exist, Therefore the World Thinks: Whitehead, Latour and the Scientific Aesthetics	2
Digital Sensing, Infrastructure of Sovereignty, and the Unmaking of the Chinese Surveillance State	2
Small-Store Utopianism	2
Pandemic Adjustments and Logistical Power	2
The Poverty of the Mushroom: On the New Organicisms	2
Ontology or Theology? François Jullien and Chinese Vitalism	2
The Decline of the Digital Commons	2
Organizing Counterpublics: Scenes from Contemporary Russia	2
On the Varieties of Experience of Art	2
Justice, Injustice and the Work of Julia Kristeva	2
The ‘Optimistic Cruelty’ of Hayek’s Market Order: Neoliberalism, Pain and Social Selection	2
From the Confessional Booth to Digital Enclosures: Absolution as Cultural Technique	2
Infernal Alternatives and Alternative Medicines: Navigating the Post-Factual with William James and Bruno Latour	2
Between Habermas and Lyotard: Rethinking the Contrast between Modernity and Postmodernity	2
Reactionary Bricolage: Curtis Yarvin and Postliberalism	2
Entropy and Entropic Differences in the Work of Michel Serres	2
With and against Max Weber: A Conversation with Wendy Brown on Politics and Scholarship in Nihilistic Times	1
The Crab’s Efficacy	1
Orienting Care: Boris Groys, Philosophy of Care	1
Annual Index – Volume 41, 2024	1
What Social Research Can Learn from Archaeology: Comparison as Juxtaposition and Conduction	1
The Devil’s Interval: Grand Challenges and Transdisciplinarity in the Anthropocene	1
The Cultural Politics of Artificial Intelligence in China	1
‘No Justice, No Peace’: Black Radicalism and the Atmospheres of the Internal Colony	1
Life Deactivated: Philosophies on the End of the World	1
Neoliberalism and Post-Truth: Expertise and the Market Model	1
Flattery, Truth-telling, and Social Theory	1
Trans Embodiment: Notes on Building a House You Don’t Want to Live In	1
Urban Futures, Climate Migration, and Platform Logistics of 21st-Century City Systems	1
Cruel Optimism as an Ecology of Powers	1
Bourdieu, Lacan and Field Theory: Neoliberal Doxa in the Economic Field	1
Bernard Stiegler and the Internation Project: An Introduction	1
Imagining ‘Our Ancestors’: Liberal Indigeneity and the Repudiation of Colonialism in Postimperial Britain	1
Between Is Not Being	1
Unseating Mastery: The University and the Promise of the New	1
Rhetoric as Critique: Towards a Rhetorical Philosophy	1
Narratives of Resistance: Foucault’s Case Studies and the History of Transgression	1
Rethinking the Modern and Modernity with Jacob Taubes	1
Saving Sade: Monstrosity, Theology, and Our Impasse in Algorithmic Culture	1
Interview with Renato Ortiz: Intersections between Sociology and Anthropology	1
Against the Common Good: The Role of Capitalist Consumer Culture	1
On Late Fascism: Derrida, Toscano and the Return of Absolute Hostility	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
The Scapegoat: Violence, Law and Origin	1
Activating Academic Voice: Explorations of the Media Landscape	1
On Narrative: An Interview with Roland Barthes	1
For Heaven-Human Conviviality: Reflections on Some ‘Ontological’ Narratives	1
QAnon and the Epistemic Communities of the Unreal: A Conceptual Toolkit for a Sociology of Grassroots Conspiracism	1
The Brutalization of the World: Achille Mbembe, Brutalism MbembeAchilleBrutalismDurham, NC: Duke University Press, 2024, 200 pp. ISBN: 978-1478020875	1
Transforming Toxic Materialities: Microbes in Anthropogenically Polluted Soils	1
Mutual Futurity: Rethinking Incommensurability between Indigenous Sovereignty and Black Freedom	1
Žižek at the Buchmesse : Evil, Cancel Culture, and the Difficulty of Diversity	1
The Land of the Moderns: The Sense of Latour’s Pragmatism	1
Intimacy and the Transformation of the Public Sphere	1
Another Age of Anxiety: Psychological Distress and the ‘Asset Economy’	1
Thanks to Reviewers	1
Ambient Extremism in Reactionary Digital Politics	1
Bruno Latour and Translation	1
Necropolitics and Surplus Life: Mbembe and Beyond	1
Cultural Cosmopolitanism as Habits in Everyday Life	1
Bruno Latour, Writer	1
Political Theology: Origins, Concepts, and Contradictions	1
The Subject of AI: A Psychoanalytic Intervention	1
After the Expansion: The Japanese University Crisis and a Vision of the Post-University	1
Thanks to Reviewers	1
Artistic Activism and Museum Accountability: Staging Antagonism in the Cultural Sphere	1
Vitalist Marxism: Georges Canguilhem and the Resistance of Life	1
Alienated Leisure: Reflections on The Tourist	1