OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Theory Culture & Society is 3. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Baudrillard and Heidegger: Between Two Deaths	187
Michel Serres and the Philosophy of Technology	57
Ursula Le Guin’s Speculative Anthropology: Thick Description, Historicity and Science Fiction	55
Machine Learning, Synthetic Data, and the Politics of Difference	42
Why Do Experts and Amateurs Diverge in Their Tastings? A Pragmatic Analysis of Perception	30
Andrew Feenberg, The Ruthless Critique of Everything Existing	30
Artificial Intelligence and the Production of Judicial Truth	26
Interview with Werner Bonefeld: Open Marxism and the Critique of Society	25
The Disunity in Genealogy: Foucault’s Anti-Nietzschean Reading of History	24
Decolonial and Ontological Challenges in Social and Anthropological Theory	22
Rethinking Posthumanist Subjectivity: Technology as Ontological Murder in European Colonialism	19
The Action of Non-Action: Walter Benjamin, Wu Wei and the Nature of Capitalism	17
Emotions and the Systematization of Connective Labor	17
Towards a Minor Logistics: Community and Ecology in a Watershed Project	16
Black Studies as Field Theory: Culture as Infrastructure	13
Jacob Rogozinski, The Logic of Hatred: From Witch Hunts to the Terror	12
Rethinking Critical Sociology, Transcending the Transcendental	12
Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan, Code: From Information Theory to French Theory	12
Notes on Structuralism: Introduction	12
Interview with Andreas Reckwitz: A Society of Singularities	10
Male Subcultures in Japan: Generating Sexual Capital and Gender-Class Mobility in a Low Birth Society	9
Re-Reading Zhang Taiyan against François Jullien: Ontology and Political Critique in Chinese Thought	9
Bruno Latour, Pragmatism and Politics: A Researcher on a Mission	8
The Solutionist Ethic and the Spirit of Digital Capitalism	8
Nietzsche, Ontology, and Foucault’s Critical Project: To Perish from Absolute Knowledge	8

Animal Cultures at the Edge of Extinction	6
Reflections on the Turn to Ageism in Contemporary Cultural Discourse	6
Judith Butler: Life, Philosophy, Politics, Ethics: E-Special Issue Introduction	6
Towards an Ontology of Contemporary Reality?	6
An Interview with Luc Boltanski and Arnaud Esquerre on Enrichment: A Critique of Commodities	6
Narratives of Post-Truth: Lyotard and the Epistemic Fragmentation of Society	6
The Antinomy of the Anthropocene: The Narrative of Enlightenment in Dipesh Chakrabarty’s Ecological Theory	6
Latent Freedom in Videogames	6
Pastorate Digitalized: Social Media and (De)Subjectification	6
Against Renaissance Perspective: The Soaring Gaze	6
Embodying Resistance: Politics and the Mobilization of Vulnerability	5
Third Nature: On Shu Lea Cheang’s Film UKI and Nature’s Infestations of Technology	5
Human-Animal Relations: The Ontological Turn and the Return of Humanism	5
Analyzing Narrative: Roland Barthes’ Forgotten Interview	5
From Computer Science to ‘Hermeneutic Web’: Towards a Contributory Design for Digital Technologies	5
Foucault Before the Collège de France	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 Politics of Clinic and Critique in Southern Brazil	5
The Jews Killed Moses: Sigmund Freud and the Jewish Question	4
Race, Capitalism, and the Necessity/Contingency Debate	4
Mary Douglas on Purity and Danger: An Interview	4
Rethinking Human-Smartphone Interaction with Deleuze, Guattari, and Polanyi	4
What Demarcates Necropolitics from Biopolitics? A Foucauldian Critique of Mbembe	4
The Recording Cure: A Media Genealogy of Recorded Voice in Psychotherapy	4
Against Posthumanism: Notes towards an Ethopolitics of Personhood	4
Neoliberalism’s Persistence and the Struggle for What Comes After	4
Michel Serres’ Neglected Political Ecology in Dialogue with Bruno Latour’s Figure of Gaia	3
Popular Art, Crime and Urban Order Beyond the State	3
Decolonising the Earth: Anticolonial Environmentalism and the Soil of Empire	3
Plants Against Property: Japanese Knotweed as Companion Species	3
Post-punk, Industrial Culture Zines, and the Information Dark Age	3
Rizvana Bradley, Anteaesthetics: Black Aesthesis and the Critique of Form	3
The Logic of the Synthetic Supplement in Algorithmic Societies	3
Faith in Fugitive Time: Safiya Sinclair’s Poetic Temporalities of Racialization	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