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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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Machine Learning, Synthetic Data, and the Politics of Difference	149
Baudrillard and Heidegger: Between Two Deaths	86
Ursula Le Guin’s Speculative Anthropology: Thick Description, Historicity and Science Fiction	47
Andrew Feenberg, The Ruthless Critique of Everything Existing	44
Michel Serres and the Philosophy of Technology	44
Emotions and the Systematization of Connective Labor	37
Decolonial and Ontological Challenges in Social and Anthropological Theory	36
Solidifying Grounds: The Intricate Art of Foundation Building	24
Rethinking Posthumanist Subjectivity: Technology as Ontological Murder in European Colonialism	24
Interview with Werner Bonefeld: Open Marxism and the Critique of Society	24
Why Do Experts and Amateurs Diverge in Their Tastings? A Pragmatic Analysis of Perception	22
Artificial Intelligence and the Production of Judicial Truth	22
The Disunity in Genealogy: Foucault’s Anti-Nietzschean Reading of History	19
Nietzsche, Ontology, and Foucault’s Critical Project: To Perish from Absolute Knowledge	18
In-between Solidity and Fluidity: The Reclaimed Marshlands of Agro Pontino	14
Notes on Structuralism: Introduction	14
Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan, Code: From Information Theory to French Theory	14
Jacob Rogozinski, The Logic of Hatred: From Witch Hunts to the Terror	13
Rethinking Critical Sociology, Transcending the Transcendental	12
Interview with Andreas Reckwitz: A Society of Singularities	12
The Action of Non-Action: Walter Benjamin, Wu Wei and the Nature of Capitalism	12
Re-Reading Zhang Taiyan against François Jullien: Ontology and Political Critique in Chinese Thought	11
Biosemiotics and Religion: Theoretical Perspectives on Language, Society and the Supernatural	11
The Solutionist Ethic and the Spirit of Digital Capitalism	10
Pastorate Digitalized: Social Media and (De)Subjectification	9

Animal Cultures at the Edge of Extinction	9
An Interview with Luc Boltanski and Arnaud Esquerre on Enrichment: A Critique of Commodities	9
Elemental Memory: The Solid Fluidity of the Elements in the Nuclear Era	8
Bruno Latour, Pragmatism and Politics: A Researcher on a Mission	8
Judith Butler: Life, Philosophy, Politics, Ethics: E-Special Issue Introduction	7
Against Renaissance Perspective: The Soaring Gaze	7
Latent Freedom in Videogames	7
Narratives of Post-Truth: Lyotard and the Epistemic Fragmentation of Society	7
Reflections on the Turn to Ageism in Contemporary Cultural Discourse	7
The Antinomy of the Anthropocene: The Narrative of Enlightenment in Dipesh Chakrabarty’s Ecological Theory	7
Performance as Social Resistance: Pussy Riot as a Feminist Avant-garde	7
Towards an Ontology of Contemporary Reality?	6
Analyzing Narrative: Roland Barthes’ Forgotten Interview	6
By Way of Resemblance: On Benjamin’s Daoist Renewal of Dialectics	6
Post-Neoliberalism? An Introduction	5
The Recording Cure: A Media Genealogy of Recorded Voice in Psychotherapy	5
Race, Capitalism, and the Necessity/Contingency Debate	5
Post-punk, Industrial Culture Zines, and the Information Dark Age	5
Embodying Resistance: Politics and the Mobilization of Vulnerability	5
The Jews Killed Moses: Sigmund Freud and the Jewish Question	5
From Computer Science to ‘Hermeneutic Web’: Towards a Contributory Design for Digital Technologies	5
The Politics of Clinic and Critique in Southern Brazil	5
Neoliberalism’s Persistence and the Struggle for What Comes After	5
With and after the Inquiry: How Do We Pragmatically Move from the Moderns to the Contemporaries?	5
Rethinking Human-Smartphone Interaction with Deleuze, Guattari, and Polanyi	5
Foucault Before the Collège de France	5
Against Posthumanism: Notes towards an Ethopolitics of Personhood	5
Foucault’s 1960s Lectures on Sexuality	4
Huey Newton’s Lessons for the Academic Left	4
Is Anti-totalitarian Theory Still Relevant? The Example of Claude Lefort	4
Faith in Fugitive Time: Safiya Sinclair’s Poetic Temporalities of Racialization	4
Viscosity in Matter, Life and Sociality: The Case of Glacial Ice	4
Popular Art, Crime and Urban Order Beyond the State	4
The Logic of the Synthetic Supplement in Algorithmic Societies	4
Mary Douglas on Purity and Danger: An Interview	4
Michel Serres’ Neglected Political Ecology in Dialogue with Bruno Latour’s Figure of Gaia	4
Rizvana Bradley, Anteaesthetics: Black Aesthesis and the Critique of Form	4
Moral Injury and the Psyche of Counterinsurgency	4
Organizing Counterpublics: Scenes from Contemporary Russia	3
The Dividual: Digital Practices and Biotechnologies	3
What Is a Neganthropic Institution?	3
Amateurs’ Exploration of Wine: A Pragmatic Study of Taste	3
Introducing Solid Fluids	3
Painting for Fools	3
Decolonising the Earth: Anticolonial Environmentalism and the Soil of Empire	3
Jullien the Apostate	3
François Jullien’s Landscape, Site Selection, and Pattern Recognition	3
A New Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere? An Introduction	3
Agamben’s Politics of the Performative	3
Epidemic and Insurance: Two Forms of Solidarity	3

Art, Extractivism, and the Ontological Shift: Toward a (Post)Extractivist Aesthetics