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 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
Rethinking Posthumanist Subjectivity: Technology as Ontological Murder in European Colonialism	12
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
Towards a Minor Logistics: Community and Ecology in a Watershed Project	11
Male Subcultures in Japan: Generating Sexual Capital and Gender-Class Mobility in a Low Birth Society	10
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
The Action of Non-Action: Walter Benjamin, Wu Wei and the Nature of Capitalism	9
Re-Reading Zhang Taiyan against François Jullien: Ontology and Political Critique in Chinese Thought	9
Notes on Structuralism: Introduction	9
Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan, Code: From Information Theory to French Theory	8
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
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
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 Antinomy of the Anthropocene: The Narrative of Enlightenment in Dipesh Chakrabarty’s Ecological Theory	6
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 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
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
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
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
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
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