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 2022-04-01 to 2026-04-01.)
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:Radium of the Word: A Poetics of Materiality24
:Meir Kahane: The Public Life and Political Thought of an American Jewish Radical18
Between Conformity and Dissent: Two Chinese Thinkers in Search of Esotericism11
Brian Winston and Matthew Winston. The Roots of Fake News: Objecting to Objective Journalism. New York: Routledge, 2021. 224 pp.11
Peter Snowdon. The People Are Not an Image: Vernacular Video After the Arab Spring. New York: Verso Books, 2020. 304 pp.8
Kafka’s Animal Machines8
:Palestine Is Throwing a Party and the Whole World Is Invited: Capital and State Building in the West Bank7
:The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence7
Supposing … : On Variation in Picasso’s Las Meninas (after Velázquez) and Shakespeare’s Sonnets6
The Four-Color Theorem and the Aesthetics of Computational Proof5
Toward Dematerialization: Light, Medium, Environment5
:Apropos of Something: A History of Irrelevance and Relevance5
Big Earths of China: Remotely Sensing Xinjiang along the Belt and Road5
The Planetization of Machine Listening4
: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
:The Cancel Culture Panic: How an American Obsession Went Global4
“Respirators, Not Furnished”: On Reading Muriel Rukeyser in the Pandemic and Other Disasters4
On Addressability, or What Even Is Computation?3
Pleistocene Park: Engineering Wilderness in a More-than-Human World3
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 against2
:Operation Valhalla: Writings on War, Weapons, and Media2
Sensitivity and Sensing: Toward a Processual Media Theory of Electromagnetic Vibrations2
Manet and Neoliberalism: The Case of Salman Toor2
:Ideology and Politics2
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Derek Jarman and Everything That Is the Case2
Werner Hamacher. Two Studies of Friedrich Hölderlin. Trans. Julia Ng and Anthony Curtis Adler, Ed. Peter Fenves and Ng. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2020. 240 pp.2
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:Making the World Clean: Wasted Lives, Wasted Environment, and Racial Capitalism1
:Curating Capitalism: How Art Impacts Business, Management, and Economy.1
The Draw of the Mark1
Granular Worlds: Situating the Sand Table in Media History1
:The Likeness of Things Unlike: A Poetics of Incommensurability1
Critical Response V: “Rather Like a Habit”1
Daniel M. Herskowitz. Heidegger and His Jewish Reception. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021. 346 pp.1
:The Blue Period: Black Writing in the Early Cold War1
The Navigable Image: Vermeer, Melville, and the Maritime Coordinates of Computer Graphics1
Old Trees, Wild Rivers: CI at Fifty1
Just Sabotage1
Race,Get Out, and the Advent of (Enforced) Skepticism1
The Planetary Experiment: A History and Theory of Science at Scale1
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
Jacob Gaboury. Image Objects: An Archaeology of Computer Graphics. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2021. 312 pp.1
:The Politics of Art: Dissent and Cultural Diplomacy in Lebanon, Palestine, and Jordan1
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:The Poverty of Ethics1
: The Traces of Jacques Derrida’s Cinema1
:Dwelling in Fiction: Poetics of Place and the Experimental Novel in Latin America1
Some Points about Contemporary Fascism1
Michael Clune. A Defense of Judgment. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. 256 pp.1
:Ludwig Binswanger and Fernand Deligny on the Human Condition: Wandering Lines1
:Digital Lethargy: Dispatches from an Age of Disconnection1
: How to Research like a Dog: Kafka’s New Science1
:Queer Velocities: Time, Sex, and Biopower on the Early Modern Stage.1
Vocal Deliriums (Five Proposals)1
Close Third: The Narrative Formation of Modern Intersubjectivity1
:Cybernetic Capitalism: A Critical Theory of the Incommunicable1
What Is an Author?1
Stanley Cavell. Here and There: Sites of Philosophy, ed. Nancy Bauer, Alice Crary, and Sandra Laugier. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2022. 336 pp.1
Critical Response VII: Theories We Desire With: A Rejoinder1
:Take This Hammer: Work, Song, Crisis1
:On Belonging and Not Belonging: Translation, Migration, Replacement1
: The Rise of Office Literature: Bureaucratization and Aesthetics in Britain and France, 1810–19001
:Maladies of the Will: The American Novel and the Modernity Problem1
The Human Translator versus the Machine: Algorithms of Interpretation1
What’s the Matter with Computational Literary Studies?1
:Monumental Graffiti: Tracing Public Art and Resistance in the City0
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:Emancipation after Hegel: Achieving a Contradictory Revolution0
You Have Been Misconnected0
Andil Gosine. Nature’s Wild: Love, Sex, and Law in the Caribbean. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2021. 192 pp.0
: Open Admissions: The Poetics and Pedagogy of Toni Cade Bambara, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, and Adrienne Rich in the Era of Free College0
Mycoaesthetics0
Media: The Case of Spain and New Spain0
: Immanent Critiques: The Frankfurt School Under Pressure0
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“The Problem of Style in the Visual Arts”0
:Prisoner of the Infidels: The Memoir of an Ottoman Muslim in Seventeenth-Century Europe0
:Reading Shakespeare Reading Me0
:Stop Thief! Anarchism and Philosophy0
:Big Fiction: How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature0
:The Book of Politics: China in Theory0
:States of Disconnect: The China-India Literary Relation in the Twentieth Century0
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
The Optical and the Environmental: From Screens to Screenscapes0
: Hermaphrodite Logic: A History of Intersex Liberation0
:Modern Times: Temporality in Art and Politics0
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On the Fence: Media, Ecology, Marx0
Gayle Rogers. Speculation: A Cultural History from Aristotle to AI. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021. 264 pp.0
Translation as Different: A View from Linguistic Relativity0
White Women Wondering and the Contortions of Childfree Writing0
:The Sociology of Literature0
:What Pornography Knows: Sex and Social Protest since the Eighteenth Century0
:Arte Programmata: Freedom, Control, and the Computer in 1960s Italy0
The True Story of Fictionality0
:Vernacular English: Reading the Anglophone in Postcolonial India0
On the Calculation of Meaning, or Doing Words without Things0
:How I Became a Tree0
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:Disavowal0
A Peripheral Vision: Framing the Cultural Bias in the Center of Photography0
:Inventing the Alphabet: The Origins of Letters from Antiquity to the Present0
Cuteness Envy0
The Truth of Value: A Conversation with Theaster Gates0
:Formal Matters: Embodied Experience in Modern Literature0
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:Health Communism0
:Reconfiguring the Portrait0
Samantha N. Sheppard. Sporting Blackness: Race, Embodiment, and Critical Muscle Memory on Screen. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2020. 264 pp.0
Distributing Legibility0
:Thresholds, Encounters: Paul Celan and the Claim of Philology0
:Novels by Aliens: Weird Tales and the Twenty-First Century0
The Reification of the World: Poetry and Conquest in Marcel Broodthaers’s Maps0
:Nihilistic Times: Thinking with Max Weber0
S. Pearl Brilmyer. The Science of Character: Human Objecthood and the Ends of Victorian Realism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022. 296 pp.0
:Percy Shelley for Our Times0
: True Materialism: Hegelian Marxism and the Modernist Struggle for Freedom0
:The Crisis of Narration0
:Book, Text, Medium: Cross-Sectional Reading for a Digital Age0
: Funding White Supremacy: Federal Wealth Policies and the Modern Racial Wealth Gap0
A Situationist in Autumn: Guy Debord, Translator of Jorge Manrique0
Critical Response II: Diamonds and Rust0
:A Black Gaze: Artists Changing How We See0
Apostrophe’s Occasions: Two Postures of Abolitionist Address0
: Heidegger and Dao: Things, Nothingness, Freedom0
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:Architecture against Democracy: Histories of the Nationalist International0
Hate, Consent, Play0
Speech, Media, and Early Modern English Writing0
Photography and Semiotics: Use and Purpose0
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Algorithmic Abduction: Robots for Alien Reading0
James Leo Cahill and Luca Caminati, eds. Cinema of Exploration: Essays on an Adventurous Film Practice. New York: Routledge, 2021. 348 pp.0
:Overshoot: How the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown0
: Geologic Life: Inhuman Intimacies and the Geophysics of Race0
Facing Up to the Sovereign: Pak Sheung Cheun’s Nightmare Wallpaper and Hong Kong’s Despair0
Tina Young Choi. Victorian Contingencies: Experiments in Literature, Science, and Play. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2022. 246 pp.0
:The Torture Camp on Paradise Street0
:The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is: A History, a Philosophy, a Warning0
Critical Response V: AI-Generated Images and Photography: The General and the Specific0
Craig Dworkin. Dictionary Poetics: Toward a Radical Lexicography. New York: Fordham University Press, 2020. 272 pp.0
:Stranger Fictions: A History of the Novel in Arabic Translation0
:Bread and Freedom: Egypt’s Revolutionary Situation0
:A Face Drawn in Sand: Humanistic Inquiry and Foucault in the Present0
:Serial Forms: The Unfinished Project of Modernity, 1815–18480
Neoliberal Subjectivation: Between Foucault and Marx0
#COVID, Crisis, and the Search for Story in the Platform Age0
:Understanding Barthes, Understanding Modernism0
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Reading Anew0
:Pathologies of Motion: Historical Thinking in Medicine, Aesthetics, and Poetics0
Trans Romance: Queer Intimacy and the Problem of Inexistence in the Modern Novel0
Thomas Hobbes, the Virginia Company, and the Invention of Corporate Sovereignty0
When Is Philology Made Jewish? The Example of Erich Auerbach, Part 10
Critical Response I: Queer Theory Continues to Take Shape0
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Situation: A Narrative Concept0
:Life beside Bars: Confinement and Capital in an American Prison Town0
Hans Blumenberg. St. Matthew Passion. Trans. Helmut Müller-Sievers and Paul Fleming. New York: Cornell University Press, 2021. 246 pp.0
Naftali Bezem on the Green Line0
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Sentiment Analysis and the Sentimental Novel0
Critical Response III: After Straight Pride0
:The Other Synaesthesia0
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Critical Response II: Absconding from the Index0
What Is a Book? Kant and the Law of the Letter0
:Behind the Angel of History: The Angelus Novus and Its Interleaf0
:Disarming Intelligence: Proust, Valéry, and Modern French Criticism0
:Racial Blackness and Indian Ocean Slavery: Iran’s Cinematic Archive0
: Civic Solitude: Why Democracy Needs Distance0
“Understanding” Asians: Anti-Asian Racism, Sentimentality, Sentiment Analysis, and Digital Surveillance0
:Planetary Longings0
Visible Yet Transparent: The Lens in Nineteenth-Century Photographic Cultures0
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
“Gas Guzzling Gaia”: Some New Camera Angles on a Pivotal Scene0
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:Cosmic Connections: Poetry in the Age of Disenchantment0
:Sayyid Qutb: An Intellectual Biography0
:The Plastic Turn0
Critical Response I: Photography and AI: Why It Matters, Though0
The Novel as Practice of Consciousness: Locke and Defoe, Revisited0
:Allegorical Moments: Call to the Everyday0
Rachel Teukolsky. Picture World: Image, Aesthetics, and Victorian New Media. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. 480 pp.0
Corroded with SCUM: Valerie Solanas’s Theories of Mind0
:The Kinds of Poetry I Want: Essays & Comedies0
:Creatures of the Air: Music, Atlantic Spirits, Breath, 1817–19130
Ecomedia in the Wild: Camera Traps, Geiger Counters, and Radioactive Boars0
: Repair the World: French Literature in the Twenty-First Century0
Notational/Poetics: Noting, Gleaning, Itinerary0
Unnatural Images: On AI-Generated Photographs0
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Achille Mbembe. Brutalisme. Paris: Éditions La Découverte, 2020. 246 pp.0
Caterina Scaramelli. How to Make a Wetland: Water and Moral Ecology in Turkey. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2021. 240 pp.0
Fassbinder, Functionalism, and the Beauty of Braun Design0
“I Am Restless to Live, As Nature Doth”: Cavendish and the Aesthetics of Beating Bodily Time0
Surrounding and Surrounded: Toward a Conceptual History of Environment0
:“The Savage Detectives” Reread0
:The Force of Truth: Critique, Genealogy, and Truth-Telling in Michel Foucault0
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Marjorie Perloff. Infrathin: An Experiment in Micropoetics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. 240 pp.0
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Transcreation and Self-Translation in Contemporary Latinx Poetry0
Critical Response III: Some Field Notes0
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:Bad Education: Why Queer Theory Teaches Us Nothing0
Thinking on Film with Arendt and Cavell0
An Incorporate Fellowship? Antiphon, Thucydides, Beccaria, and Elizabeth Petrovna on the Death Penalty0
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
Hannah Zeavin. The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2021. 328 pp.0
Panofsky’s Debut0
:Screening Fears: On Protective Media0
:On the Edge: Feeling Precarious in China0
Literature as Soft Power0
Molly Warnock. Simon Hantaï and the Reserves of Painting. University Park, Penn.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2020. 280 pp.0
The Plant at the End of the World: Precious Okoyomon’s Invasive Art0
:Phenomenal Blackness: Black Power, Philosophy, and Theory0
:Professing Criticism: Essays on the Organization of Literary Study0
Braxton Soderman. Against Flow: Video Games and the Flowing Subject. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2021. 328 pp.0
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Conceptual Scheming: L. J. Henderson, Practice, and the Harvard View of Science0
: Why We Fear AI: On the Interpretation of Nightmares0
Taxonomic Criticism0
:The Afterlife of Moses: Exile, Democracy, Renewal0
:Immortal Films: “Casablanca” and the Afterlife of a Hollywood Classic0
Don Quixote and the Public0
Unavoidable Slips: Settler Colonialism and Terra Nullius in the Wake of Climate Adaptation0
Victorian Equations0
Schematizations, or How to Draw a Thought0
The Weather in Sedgwick0
:Mu, 49 Marks of Abolition0
:Before the West: The Rise and Fall of Eastern World Orders0
Fabienne Verdier and the Force between Words0
:Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad0
Eric Hayot. Humanist Reason: A History. An Argument. A Plan. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021. 324 pp.0
:Kant and the Supposed Right to Lie0
Fiftieth Anniversary0
Dump Puppetry: Ecology, Play, and Object Performance0
:The Matter of Black Living: The Aesthetic Experiment of Racial Data, 1880–19300
: The Key to Everything: May Swenson, A Writer’s Life0
Apostrophe, Animation, and Racism0
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The Art of Text-to-Speech0
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