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 2021-03-01 to 2025-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Bruno Latour and Religion: A Strange Parishioner	129
From the Confessional Booth to Digital Enclosures: Absolution as Cultural Technique	76
On Narrative: An Interview with Roland Barthes	41
Inheriting Cosmopolitics: Pericles, Whitehead, Stengers	40
Bruno Latour and Translation	36
Comparing Artificial, Animal and Scientific Intelligence: A Dialogue with Giuseppe Longo	32
Projective Imagination: Vilém Flusser’s Concept of the Technical Image	25
Mapping Logistical Capitalism	25
Ontology or Theology? François Jullien and Chinese Vitalism	24
Linguistics and Social Sciences	22
Foucault’s 1960s Lectures on Sexuality	22
Mutual Futurity: Rethinking Incommensurability between Indigenous Sovereignty and Black Freedom	20
Adorno on Philosophy and Sociology	20
Baudrillard and Heidegger: Between Two Deaths	19
The Backlash Against Neoliberal Globalization from Above: Elite Origins of the Crisis of the New Constitutionalism	19
Mary Douglas on Purity and Danger: An Interview	18
Marcuse Today: An Introduction	18
Gillian Rose, Marxist Modernism	18
Does the University Have a Future?	14
The Age of Anger and Social Media: Elias, Technology, Civilizing/Decivilizing Processes and Ressentiment	13
Neoliberalism’s Persistence and the Struggle for What Comes After	12
A Psychoanalytic Case for Anti-capitalism as an Organisational Form	11
Annual Index – Volume 40, 2023	11
Symbiosis and the Humanitarian Marketplace: The Changing Political Economy of ‘Mutual Benefit’	11
Machine Learning, Synthetic Data, and the Politics of Difference	11

Simondon, Control and the Digital Domain	11
Detour and Dao: Benjamin, with Jullien, contra the Ontology of the Event	11
Michel Serres’ Neglected Political Ecology in Dialogue with Bruno Latour’s Figure of Gaia	9
Thanks to Reviewers	9
Field Theory and Assemblage Theory: Toward a Constructive Dialogue	9
Viscosity in Matter, Life and Sociality: The Case of Glacial Ice	8
Post-punk, Industrial Culture Zines, and the Information Dark Age	8
Containment and Leakage: Notes on a General Containerology	8
Ursula Le Guin’s Speculative Anthropology: Thick Description, Historicity and Science Fiction	8
More Sex, Less Identity: Towards a Naturalistic Queer Theory	8
Michel Serres and the Philosophy of Technology	7
Rhetoric as Critique: Towards a Rhetorical Philosophy	7
Marcuse’s Contribution to Political Thought: On Potentiality, Pre-enactment, and the Surrealism of Liberation	7
The ‘Optimistic Cruelty’ of Hayek’s Market Order: Neoliberalism, Pain and Social Selection	7
Five Modalities of Michel Foucault’s Use of Nietzsche’s Writings (1959–73): Critical, Epistemological, Linguistic, Alethurgic and Political	7
An Interview with Vinciane Despret: A Question Rarely Lives Up to Its Situation	6
Language, Figure, Landscape in Chinese Thought	6
Critical Theory and Radical Psychoanalysis: Rethinking the Marcuse-Fromm Debate	6
Justice, Injustice and the Work of Julia Kristeva	6
Digital Transformations and the Ideological Formation of the Public Sphere: Hegemonic, Populist, or Popular Communication?	5
What Social Research Can Learn from Archaeology: Comparison as Juxtaposition and Conduction	5
The Land of the Moderns: The Sense of Latour’s Pragmatism	5
Interactive Computation and Artificial Epistemologies	5
Speculative Empiricism, Nature and the Question of Predatory Abstractions: A Conversation with Didier Debaise	5
Thanks to Reviewers	4
Financial Eschatology and the Libidinal Economy of Leverage	4
Moral Injury and the Psyche of Counterinsurgency	4
Annual Index – Volume 38, 2021	4
Annual Index – Volume 41, 2024	4
Popular Art, Crime and Urban Order Beyond the State	4
Necropolitics and Surplus Life: Mbembe and Beyond	4
Latour and the Question of Politics: A Constitutional Reading	4
Conceptualising Suspended Life: From Latency to Liminality	4
Interview with Werner Bonefeld: Open Marxism and the Critique of Society	4
Coloniality, Epistemic Imbalance, and Africa’s Emigration Crisis	4
Why Do Experts and Amateurs Diverge in Their Tastings? A Pragmatic Analysis of Perception	4
Was Spinoza a Deleuzian? Rethinking the Politics of Emotions and Affects	4
The Crab’s Efficacy	3
Decolonial and Ontological Challenges in Social and Anthropological Theory	3
Native American Dis/possessions: Postcolonial Trauma in Hitchcock’s Vertigo	3
Andrew Feenberg, The Ruthless Critique of Everything Existing	3
Rethinking Posthumanist Subjectivity: Technology as Ontological Murder in European Colonialism	3
Emotions and the Systematization of Connective Labor	3
Huey Newton’s Lessons for the Academic Left	3
Art, Affect, and Social Media in the ‘No Dakota Access Pipeline’ Movement	3
From Scapegoating to the Culture of Cruelty: (Mis)Managing Mimetic Desire and Violence in Late Modernity	3
Review: Georg Simmel, Essays on Art and Aesthetics	3
Intimacy and the Transformation of the Public Sphere	3
Solidifying Grounds: The Intricate Art of Foundation Building	3
On the Varieties of Experience of Art	3

The Alt-Right: Neoliberalism, Libertarianism and the Fascist Temptation	3
Artificial Intelligence and the Production of Judicial Truth	3
The Leaky Home: Conceptualizing the Remote Control of Smart Technologies in the Domestic Sphere	3
Between a Bird-in-the-Hand and Species Data in the Bank: Intermittent Care in Conservation Science	3