Critical Inquiry

Papers
(The median citation count of Critical Inquiry is 0. 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.)
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:Radium of the Word: A Poetics of Materiality19
:Meir Kahane: The Public Life and Political Thought of an American Jewish Radical18
Between Conformity and Dissent: Two Chinese Thinkers in Search of Esotericism12
Kafka’s Animal Machines11
:The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence10
:Palestine Is Throwing a Party and the Whole World Is Invited: Capital and State Building in the West Bank9
Toward Dematerialization: Light, Medium, Environment8
Supposing … : On Variation in Picasso’s Las Meninas (after Velázquez) and Shakespeare’s Sonnets8
Systemic Corruption: Constitutional Ideas for an Anti-Oligarchic Republic8
Big Earths of China: Remotely Sensing Xinjiang along the Belt and Road8
:Apropos of Something: A History of Irrelevance and Relevance7
The Four-Color Theorem and the Aesthetics of Computational Proof6
:The Book-Makers: A History of the Book in Eighteen Lives4
:Fragments: The Existential Situation of Our Time and Filaments: Theological Profiles, vols. 1–2 of Selected Essays4
“Respirators, Not Furnished”: On Reading Muriel Rukeyser in the Pandemic and Other Disasters4
The Planetization of Machine Listening4
Kate Crawford. Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2021. 336 pp.3
:Body without Organs, Body without Image: Ernesto Neto’s Anti-Leviathan, Becoming-Matisse: Between Painting and Architecture, and Duchamp Looked At (from the Other Side) / Duchamp with (and against3
Pleistocene Park: Engineering Wilderness in a More-than-Human World3
:Operation Valhalla: Writings on War, Weapons, and Media3
On Addressability, or What Even Is Computation?3
:The Cancel Culture Panic: How an American Obsession Went Global3
:Ideology and Politics3
Sensitivity and Sensing: Toward a Processual Media Theory of Electromagnetic Vibrations2
Jean-Paul Marat: Prophet of Terror2
: The Traces of Jacques Derrida’s Cinema2
Critical Response V: “Rather Like a Habit”2
:The Blue Period: Black Writing in the Early Cold War2
:The Poverty of Ethics2
: Help2
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Stanley Cavell. Here and There: Sites of Philosophy, ed. Nancy Bauer, Alice Crary, and Sandra Laugier. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2022. 336 pp.2
What Is an Author?2
:Cybernetic Capitalism: A Critical Theory of the Incommunicable2
Manet and Neoliberalism: The Case of Salman Toor2
:The Likeness of Things Unlike: A Poetics of Incommensurability2
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Granular Worlds: Situating the Sand Table in Media History2
:Take This Hammer: Work, Song, Crisis1
Off the Clock1
:Ludwig Binswanger and Fernand Deligny on the Human Condition: Wandering Lines1
:Digital Lethargy: Dispatches from an Age of Disconnection1
:Dwelling in Fiction: Poetics of Place and the Experimental Novel in Latin America1
:Making the World Clean: Wasted Lives, Wasted Environment, and Racial Capitalism1
:The Politics of Art: Dissent and Cultural Diplomacy in Lebanon, Palestine, and Jordan1
:Curating Capitalism: How Art Impacts Business, Management, and Economy.1
Daniel M. Herskowitz. Heidegger and His Jewish Reception. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021. 346 pp.1
The Planetary Experiment: A History and Theory of Science at Scale1
The Human Translator versus the Machine: Algorithms of Interpretation1
Old Trees, Wild Rivers: CI at Fifty1
Race,Get Out, and the Advent of (Enforced) Skepticism1
:Maladies of the Will: The American Novel and the Modernity Problem1
Cybernetic Circulation Complex: Big Tech and Planetary Crisis1
Some Points about Contemporary Fascism1
Critical Response VII: Theories We Desire With: A Rejoinder1
Close Third: The Narrative Formation of Modern Intersubjectivity1
Jacob Gaboury. Image Objects: An Archaeology of Computer Graphics. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2021. 312 pp.1
: How to Research like a Dog: Kafka’s New Science1
Contemporary Political Adventures of Meaning: What Is a Floating Signifier?1
Data Science and the Post-Liberal Arts University1
Just Sabotage1
:On Belonging and Not Belonging: Translation, Migration, Replacement1
The Draw of the Mark1
: The Rise of Office Literature: Bureaucratization and Aesthetics in Britain and France, 1810–19001
The Navigable Image: Vermeer, Melville, and the Maritime Coordinates of Computer Graphics1
Vocal Deliriums (Five Proposals)1
:Queer Velocities: Time, Sex, and Biopower on the Early Modern Stage.1
What’s the Matter with Computational Literary Studies?1
Critical Response I: A Response to Benedict S. Robinson, “The True Story of Fictionality”1
Libraries as “Academic Traffic Facilities”: Interlibrary Loan Imaginations after 19451
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Apostrophe’s Occasions: Two Postures of Abolitionist Address0
:Creatures of the Air: Music, Atlantic Spirits, Breath, 1817–19130
White Women Wondering and the Contortions of Childfree Writing0
Andil Gosine. Nature’s Wild: Love, Sex, and Law in the Caribbean. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2021. 192 pp.0
“Gas Guzzling Gaia”: Some New Camera Angles on a Pivotal Scene0
Digital Palestine and the National Imagination0
: Action without Hope: Victorian Literature after Climate Collapse0
The Novel as Practice of Consciousness: Locke and Defoe, Revisited0
:Planetary Longings0
:Something Speaks to Me: Where Criticism Begins0
:Stranger Fictions: A History of the Novel in Arabic Translation0
Language Machines: Cultural AI and the End of Remainder Humanism0
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Critical Response II: Absconding from the Index0
Situation: A Narrative Concept0
:The Force of Truth: Critique, Genealogy, and Truth-Telling in Michel Foucault0
Gayle Rogers. Speculation: A Cultural History from Aristotle to AI. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021. 264 pp.0
:Reconfiguring the Portrait0
The Oxford Handbook of Soviet Underground Culture0
:Professing Criticism: Essays on the Organization of Literary Study0
Mycoaesthetics0
:The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is: A History, a Philosophy, a Warning0
Critical Response I: Queer Theory Continues to Take Shape0
:Screening Fears: On Protective Media0
Marjorie Perloff. Infrathin: An Experiment in Micropoetics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. 240 pp.0
A Situationist in Autumn: Guy Debord, Translator of Jorge Manrique0
: True Materialism: Hegelian Marxism and the Modernist Struggle for Freedom0
:Overshoot: How the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown0
:Cosmic Connections: Poetry in the Age of Disenchantment0
Fiftieth Anniversary0
Panofsky’s Debut0
: Geologic Life: Inhuman Intimacies and the Geophysics of Race0
:The Sociology of Literature0
: The Cinema of Extractions: Film Materials and Their Forms0
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Critical Response V: AI-Generated Images and Photography: The General and the Specific0
Trans Romance: Queer Intimacy and the Problem of Inexistence in the Modern Novel0
:How I Became a Tree0
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Facing Up to the Sovereign: Pak Sheung Cheun’s Nightmare Wallpaper and Hong Kong’s Despair0
Taxonomic Criticism0
:Life beside Bars: Confinement and Capital in an American Prison Town0
:Monumental Graffiti: Tracing Public Art and Resistance in the City0
As If! Queer Criticism Across Difference0
: Repair the World: French Literature in the Twenty-First Century0
Schematizations, or How to Draw a Thought0
Critical Response I: Photography and AI: Why It Matters, Though0
Asian/American Esports: Exercising the Ghosts of Yellow Peril0
The Truth of Value: A Conversation with Theaster Gates0
Achille Mbembe. Brutalisme. Paris: Éditions La Découverte, 2020. 246 pp.0
Wild Fictions: Essays on Literature, Empire, and the Environment0
:Health Communism0
An Incorporate Fellowship? Antiphon, Thucydides, Beccaria, and Elizabeth Petrovna on the Death Penalty0
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Albert Kahn Inc.: Architecture, Labor, and Industry, 1905–19610
:Stop Thief! Anarchism and Philosophy0
:Reading Shakespeare Reading Me0
:Inventing the Alphabet: The Origins of Letters from Antiquity to the Present0
William Empson. Some Versions of Pastoral and Related Writings, ed. Seamus Perry. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. 453 pp., and The Structure of Complex Words and Related Writings0
Questions Concerning Longevity0
The Optical and the Environmental: From Screens to Screenscapes0
Corroded with SCUM: Valerie Solanas’s Theories of Mind0
Unnatural Images: On AI-Generated Photographs0
On the Calculation of Meaning, or Doing Words without Things0
The Plant at the End of the World: Precious Okoyomon’s Invasive Art0
Dump Puppetry: Ecology, Play, and Object Performance0
:Kant and the Supposed Right to Lie0
: The Key to Everything: May Swenson, A Writer’s Life0
Literature as Soft Power0
:Thresholds, Encounters: Paul Celan and the Claim of Philology0
The Reification of the World: Poetry and Conquest in Marcel Broodthaers’s Maps0
“The Problem of Style in the Visual Arts”0
Paratactic Boundaries0
Cuteness Envy0
:Formal Matters: Embodied Experience in Modern Literature0
The True Story of Fictionality0
:Big Fiction: How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature0
:Bread and Freedom: Egypt’s Revolutionary Situation0
:Racial Blackness and Indian Ocean Slavery: Iran’s Cinematic Archive0
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A Peripheral Vision: Framing the Cultural Bias in the Center of Photography0
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:A Face Drawn in Sand: Humanistic Inquiry and Foucault in the Present0
:Prisoner of the Infidels: The Memoir of an Ottoman Muslim in Seventeenth-Century Europe0
:What Pornography Knows: Sex and Social Protest since the Eighteenth Century0
The Weather in Sedgwick0
Zachary M. Howlett. Meritocracy and Its Discontents: Anxiety and the National College Entrance Exam in China. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 2021. 266 pp.0
Braxton Soderman. Against Flow: Video Games and the Flowing Subject. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2021. 328 pp.0
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Critical Response III: Some Field Notes0
: Why We Fear AI: On the Interpretation of Nightmares0
:Book, Text, Medium: Cross-Sectional Reading for a Digital Age0
:Arte Programmata: Freedom, Control, and the Computer in 1960s Italy0
Critical Response II: Diamonds and Rust0
: Civic Solitude: Why Democracy Needs Distance0
:Common Measures: Romanticism and the Groundlessness of Community0
: Heidegger and Dao: Things, Nothingness, Freedom0
:Novels by Aliens: Weird Tales and the Twenty-First Century0
:On the Edge: Feeling Precarious in China0
Naftali Bezem on the Green Line0
Hate, Consent, Play0
Neoliberal Subjectivation: Between Foucault and Marx0
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:The Matter of Black Living: The Aesthetic Experiment of Racial Data, 1880–19300
Fabienne Verdier and the Force between Words0
Algorithmic Abduction: Robots for Alien Reading0
What Is a Book? Kant and the Law of the Letter0
Critical Response III: After Straight Pride0
Intellectual History and the Problem of Conceptual Change0
When Is Philology Made Jewish? The Example of Erich Auerbach, Part 10
:Bad Education: Why Queer Theory Teaches Us Nothing0
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:Disarming Intelligence: Proust, Valéry, and Modern French Criticism0
:Modern Times: Temporality in Art and Politics0
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Surrounding and Surrounded: Toward a Conceptual History of Environment0
:Sayyid Qutb: An Intellectual Biography0
: Funding White Supremacy: Federal Wealth Policies and the Modern Racial Wealth Gap0
Samantha N. Sheppard. Sporting Blackness: Race, Embodiment, and Critical Muscle Memory on Screen. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2020. 264 pp.0
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S. Pearl Brilmyer. The Science of Character: Human Objecthood and the Ends of Victorian Realism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022. 296 pp.0
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Thomas Hobbes, the Virginia Company, and the Invention of Corporate Sovereignty0
Eric Hayot. Humanist Reason: A History. An Argument. A Plan. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021. 324 pp.0
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Tina Young Choi. Victorian Contingencies: Experiments in Literature, Science, and Play. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2022. 246 pp.0
Speech, Media, and Early Modern English Writing0
Miss Destiny0
:The Other Synaesthesia0
Victorian Equations0
:The Kinds of Poetry I Want: Essays & Comedies0
:The Torture Camp on Paradise Street0
You Have Been Misconnected0
:Immortal Films: “Casablanca” and the Afterlife of a Hollywood Classic0
Reading Anew0
#COVID, Crisis, and the Search for Story in the Platform Age0
:The Crisis of Narration0
:The Book of Politics: China in Theory0
:Before the West: The Rise and Fall of Eastern World Orders0
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:Behind the Angel of History: The Angelus Novus and Its Interleaf0
Visible Yet Transparent: The Lens in Nineteenth-Century Photographic Cultures0
: Hermaphrodite Logic: A History of Intersex Liberation0
On the Fence: Media, Ecology, Marx0
Fassbinder, Functionalism, and the Beauty of Braun Design0
Hannah Zeavin. The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2021. 328 pp.0
:Emancipation after Hegel: Achieving a Contradictory Revolution0
:Serial Forms: The Unfinished Project of Modernity, 1815–18480
: Immanent Critiques: The Frankfurt School Under Pressure0
The Art of Text-to-Speech0
:All in All (More or Less): Rhetorical Considerations in Literature, Thought, and Experience0
:The Plastic Turn0
:Phenomenal Blackness: Black Power, Philosophy, and Theory0
Translation as Different: A View from Linguistic Relativity0
:Understanding Barthes, Understanding Modernism0
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Jennifer L. Morgan. Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2021. 296 pp.0
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:Vernacular English: Reading the Anglophone in Postcolonial India0
:Allegorical Moments: Call to the Everyday0
Transcreation and Self-Translation in Contemporary Latinx Poetry0
: Open Admissions: The Poetics and Pedagogy of Toni Cade Bambara, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, and Adrienne Rich in the Era of Free College0
Sentiment Analysis and the Sentimental Novel0
Thinking on Film with Arendt and Cavell0
:Architecture against Democracy: Histories of the Nationalist International0
Hans Blumenberg. St. Matthew Passion. Trans. Helmut Müller-Sievers and Paul Fleming. New York: Cornell University Press, 2021. 246 pp.0
:Pathologies of Motion: Historical Thinking in Medicine, Aesthetics, and Poetics0
:Disavowal0
:The Afterlife of Moses: Exile, Democracy, Renewal0
Ecomedia in the Wild: Camera Traps, Geiger Counters, and Radioactive Boars0
Conceptual Scheming: L. J. Henderson, Practice, and the Harvard View of Science0
:“The Savage Detectives” Reread0
Notational/Poetics: Noting, Gleaning, Itinerary0
:Mu, 49 Marks of Abolition0
:Nihilistic Times: Thinking with Max Weber0
“I Am Restless to Live, As Nature Doth”: Cavendish and the Aesthetics of Beating Bodily Time0
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