OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
:Radium of the Word: A Poetics of Materiality	24
:Meir Kahane: The Public Life and Political Thought of an American Jewish Radical	18
Brian Winston and Matthew Winston. The Roots of Fake News: Objecting to Objective Journalism. New York: Routledge, 2021. 224 pp.	12
Between Conformity and Dissent: Two Chinese Thinkers in Search of Esotericism	12
Peter Snowdon. The People Are Not an Image: Vernacular Video After the Arab Spring. New York: Verso Books, 2020. 304 pp.	9
Kafka’s Animal Machines	9
:The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence	8
:Palestine Is Throwing a Party and the Whole World Is Invited: Capital and State Building in the West Bank	7
Supposing … : On Variation in Picasso’s Las Meninas (after Velázquez) and Shakespeare’s Sonnets	7
Big Earths of China: Remotely Sensing Xinjiang along the Belt and Road	6
:The Book-Makers: A History of the Book in Eighteen Lives	5
Toward Dematerialization: Light, Medium, Environment	5
The Four-Color Theorem and the Aesthetics of Computational Proof	5
:Apropos of Something: A History of Irrelevance and Relevance	5
:The Cancel Culture Panic: How an American Obsession Went Global	4
:Fragments: The Existential Situation of Our Time and Filaments: Theological Profiles, vols. 1–2 of Selected Essays	4
The Planetization of Machine Listening	4
Kate Crawford. Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2021. 336 pp.	4
Pleistocene Park: Engineering Wilderness in a More-than-Human World	3
On Addressability, or What Even Is Computation?	3
“Respirators, Not Furnished”: On Reading Muriel Rukeyser in the Pandemic and Other Disasters	3
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.	3
Front Cover	2
: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 against	2
: Help	2

:The Likeness of Things Unlike: A Poetics of Incommensurability	2
Daniel M. Herskowitz. Heidegger and His Jewish Reception. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021. 346 pp.	2
:Ideology and Politics	2
Front Cover	2
: The Traces of Jacques Derrida’s Cinema	2
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
Derek Jarman and Everything That Is the Case	2
Manet and Neoliberalism: The Case of Salman Toor	2
:Operation Valhalla: Writings on War, Weapons, and Media	2
Sensitivity and Sensing: Toward a Processual Media Theory of Electromagnetic Vibrations	2
Libraries as “Academic Traffic Facilities”: Interlibrary Loan Imaginations after 1945	1
:Making the World Clean: Wasted Lives, Wasted Environment, and Racial Capitalism	1
Contemporary Political Adventures of Meaning: What Is a Floating Signifier?	1
Michael Clune. A Defense of Judgment. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. 256 pp.	1
Race,Get Out, and the Advent of (Enforced) Skepticism	1
:Dwelling in Fiction: Poetics of Place and the Experimental Novel in Latin America	1
The Draw of the Mark	1
Critical Response I: A Response to Benedict S. Robinson, “The True Story of Fictionality”	1
The Planetary Experiment: A History and Theory of Science at Scale	1
Jacob Gaboury. Image Objects: An Archaeology of Computer Graphics. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2021. 312 pp.	1
Granular Worlds: Situating the Sand Table in Media History	1
Front Matter	1
Vocal Deliriums (Five Proposals)	1
Data Science and the Post-Liberal Arts University	1
Seamus Deane. Small World: Ireland 1798–2018. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021. 364 pp.	1
:Take This Hammer: Work, Song, Crisis	1
: The Rise of Office Literature: Bureaucratization and Aesthetics in Britain and France, 1810–1900	1
:Curating Capitalism: How Art Impacts Business, Management, and Economy.	1
:Ludwig Binswanger and Fernand Deligny on the Human Condition: Wandering Lines	1
Critical Response VII: Theories We Desire With: A Rejoinder	1
:Digital Lethargy: Dispatches from an Age of Disconnection	1
:Queer Velocities: Time, Sex, and Biopower on the Early Modern Stage.	1
Just Sabotage	1
:The Poverty of Ethics	1
:Cybernetic Capitalism: A Critical Theory of the Incommunicable	1
What Is an Author?	1
Close Third: The Narrative Formation of Modern Intersubjectivity	1
: How to Research like a Dog: Kafka’s New Science	1
When Is Philology Made Jewish? The Example of Erich Auerbach, Part 2	1
:On Belonging and Not Belonging: Translation, Migration, Replacement	1
Old Trees, Wild Rivers: CI at Fifty	1
Some Points about Contemporary Fascism	1
:Maladies of the Will: The American Novel and the Modernity Problem	1
:The Politics of Art: Dissent and Cultural Diplomacy in Lebanon, Palestine, and Jordan	1
The Human Translator versus the Machine: Algorithms of Interpretation	1
The Navigable Image: Vermeer, Melville, and the Maritime Coordinates of Computer Graphics	1
What’s the Matter with Computational Literary Studies?	1
:The Blue Period: Black Writing in the Early Cold War	1
Critical Response V: “Rather Like a Habit”	1
:Stop Thief! Anarchism and Philosophy	0

Panofsky’s Debut	0
Literature as Soft Power	0
:Life beside Bars: Confinement and Capital in an American Prison Town	0
Critical Response IV: “Crystal Blue Persuasion”	0
Critical Response III: After Straight Pride	0
Neoliberal Subjectivation: Between Foucault and Marx	0
:Phenomenal Blackness: Black Power, Philosophy, and Theory	0
:Modern Times: Temporality in Art and Politics	0
:Inventing the Alphabet: The Origins of Letters from Antiquity to the Present	0
: Geologic Life: Inhuman Intimacies and the Geophysics of Race	0
:How I Became a Tree	0
Taxonomic Criticism	0
:Reconfiguring the Portrait	0
:The Sociology of Literature	0
Andil Gosine. Nature’s Wild: Love, Sex, and Law in the Caribbean. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2021. 192 pp.	0
: Civic Solitude: Why Democracy Needs Distance	0
:“The Savage Detectives” Reread	0
Front Cover	0
:Before the West: The Rise and Fall of Eastern World Orders	0
:Mu, 49 Marks of Abolition	0
:Cosmic Connections: Poetry in the Age of Disenchantment	0
Thomas Hobbes, the Virginia Company, and the Invention of Corporate Sovereignty	0
The Reification of the World: Poetry and Conquest in Marcel Broodthaers’s Maps	0
:The Crisis of Narration	0
An Incorporate Fellowship? Antiphon, Thucydides, Beccaria, and Elizabeth Petrovna on the Death Penalty	0
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 Writings	0
Critical Response I: Queer Theory Continues to Take Shape	0
“Gas Guzzling Gaia”: Some New Camera Angles on a Pivotal Scene	0
A Peripheral Vision: Framing the Cultural Bias in the Center of Photography	0
Trans Romance: Queer Intimacy and the Problem of Inexistence in the Modern Novel	0
: Why We Fear AI: On the Interpretation of Nightmares	0
#COVID, Crisis, and the Search for Story in the Platform Age	0
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
:The Force of Truth: Critique, Genealogy, and Truth-Telling in Michel Foucault	0
:Degenerations of Democracy	0
Front Cover	0
Victorian Equations	0
Naftali Bezem on the Green Line	0
:Book, Text, Medium: Cross-Sectional Reading for a Digital Age	0
Caterina Scaramelli. How to Make a Wetland: Water and Moral Ecology in Turkey. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2021. 240 pp.	0
:Monumental Graffiti: Tracing Public Art and Resistance in the City	0
Unnatural Images: On AI-Generated Photographs	0
Rachel Teukolsky. Picture World: Image, Aesthetics, and Victorian New Media. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. 480 pp.	0
: Heidegger and Dao: Things, Nothingness, Freedom	0
Mycoaesthetics	0
Front Matter	0
Fassbinder, Functionalism, and the Beauty of Braun Design	0
Hate, Consent, Play	0
Fiftieth Anniversary	0
Speech, Media, and Early Modern English Writing	0
Algorithmic Abduction: Robots for Alien Reading	0
:Sayyid Qutb: An Intellectual Biography	0
:Kant and the Supposed Right to Lie	0
:Allegorical Moments: Call to the Everyday	0
Front Matter	0
Front Cover	0
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
Front Cover	0
:States of Disconnect: The China-India Literary Relation in the Twentieth Century	0
Translation as Different: A View from Linguistic Relativity	0
Craig Dworkin. Dictionary Poetics: Toward a Radical Lexicography. New York: Fordham University Press, 2020. 272 pp.	0
:Arte Programmata: Freedom, Control, and the Computer in 1960s Italy	0
On the Calculation of Meaning, or Doing Words without Things	0
Thinking on Film with Arendt and Cavell	0
Master Meter: Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, and the History of Lyric	0
When Is Philology Made Jewish? The Example of Erich Auerbach, Part 1	0
: Hermaphrodite Logic: A History of Intersex Liberation	0
:Disavowal	0
Cuteness Envy	0
Critical Response I: Photography and AI: Why It Matters, Though	0
Eric Hayot. Humanist Reason: A History. An Argument. A Plan. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021. 324 pp.	0
Conceptual Scheming: L. J. Henderson, Practice, and the Harvard View of Science	0
What Is a Book? Kant and the Law of the Letter	0
Front Cover	0
:Health Communism	0
The Plant at the End of the World: Precious Okoyomon’s Invasive Art	0
Front Matter	0
The Optical and the Environmental: From Screens to Screenscapes	0
:Novels by Aliens: Weird Tales and the Twenty-First Century	0
:Nihilistic Times: Thinking with Max Weber	0

: Funding White Supremacy: Federal Wealth Policies and the Modern Racial Wealth Gap	0
Hannah Zeavin. The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2021. 328 pp.	0
Transcreation and Self-Translation in Contemporary Latinx Poetry	0
The True Story of Fictionality	0
Notational/Poetics: Noting, Gleaning, Itinerary	0
:The Afterlife of Moses: Exile, Democracy, Renewal	0
Front Matter	0
Dump Puppetry: Ecology, Play, and Object Performance	0
:Behind the Angel of History: The Angelus Novus and Its Interleaf	0
Braxton Soderman. Against Flow: Video Games and the Flowing Subject. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2021. 328 pp.	0
:Formal Matters: Embodied Experience in Modern Literature	0
The Truth of Value: A Conversation with Theaster Gates	0
:Pathologies of Motion: Historical Thinking in Medicine, Aesthetics, and Poetics	0
:The Torture Camp on Paradise Street	0
: True Materialism: Hegelian Marxism and the Modernist Struggle for Freedom	0
:Creatures of the Air: Music, Atlantic Spirits, Breath, 1817–1913	0
:Thresholds, Encounters: Paul Celan and the Claim of Philology	0
:The Plastic Turn	0
James Leo Cahill and Luca Caminati, eds. Cinema of Exploration: Essays on an Adventurous Film Practice. New York: Routledge, 2021. 348 pp.	0
:Architecture against Democracy: Histories of the Nationalist International	0
Media: The Case of Spain and New Spain	0
:A Black Gaze: Artists Changing How We See	0
:The Kinds of Poetry I Want: Essays & Comedies	0
Front Matter	0
:Prisoner of the Infidels: The Memoir of an Ottoman Muslim in Seventeenth-Century Europe	0
: Open Admissions: The Poetics and Pedagogy of Toni Cade Bambara, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, and Adrienne Rich in the Era of Free College	0
Situation: A Narrative Concept	0
Corroded with SCUM: Valerie Solanas’s Theories of Mind	0
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Achille Mbembe. Brutalisme. Paris: Éditions La Découverte, 2020. 246 pp.	0
Critical Response V: AI-Generated Images and Photography: The General and the Specific	0
Facing Up to the Sovereign: Pak Sheung Cheun’s Nightmare Wallpaper and Hong Kong’s Despair	0
: Immanent Critiques: The Frankfurt School Under Pressure	0
:The Book of Politics: China in Theory	0
:Bad Education: Why Queer Theory Teaches Us Nothing	0
:Serial Forms: The Unfinished Project of Modernity, 1815–1848	0
Hans Blumenberg. St. Matthew Passion. Trans. Helmut Müller-Sievers and Paul Fleming. New York: Cornell University Press, 2021. 246 pp.	0
:Vernacular English: Reading the Anglophone in Postcolonial India	0
:A Face Drawn in Sand: Humanistic Inquiry and Foucault in the Present	0
White Women Wondering and the Contortions of Childfree Writing	0
Front Cover	0
Front Matter	0
:The Other Synaesthesia	0
Photography and Semiotics: Use and Purpose	0
:Queer Forms	0
:Understanding Barthes, Understanding Modernism	0
Surrounding and Surrounded: Toward a Conceptual History of Environment	0
Front Cover	0
:Immortal Films: “Casablanca” and the Afterlife of a Hollywood Classic	0
:On the Edge: Feeling Precarious in China	0
Critical Response II: Diamonds and Rust	0
Fabienne Verdier and the Force between Words	0
Schematizations, or How to Draw a Thought	0
:Racial Blackness and Indian Ocean Slavery: Iran’s Cinematic Archive	0
:Disarming Intelligence: Proust, Valéry, and Modern French Criticism	0
Reading Anew	0
Molly Warnock. Simon Hantaï and the Reserves of Painting. University Park, Penn.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2020. 280 pp.	0
Front Cover	0
Critical Response III: Some Field Notes	0
The Novel as Practice of Consciousness: Locke and Defoe, Revisited	0
The Art of Text-to-Speech	0
:What Pornography Knows: Sex and Social Protest since the Eighteenth Century	0
S. Pearl Brilmyer. The Science of Character: Human Objecthood and the Ends of Victorian Realism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022. 296 pp.	0
:Professing Criticism: Essays on the Organization of Literary Study	0
Samantha N. Sheppard. Sporting Blackness: Race, Embodiment, and Critical Muscle Memory on Screen. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2020. 264 pp.	0
Front Matter	0
A Situationist in Autumn: Guy Debord, Translator of Jorge Manrique	0
The Weather in Sedgwick	0
:Big Fiction: How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature	0
Shay Hazkani. Dear Palestine: A Social History of the 1948 War. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2021. 352 pp.	0
Front Cover	0
Critical Response II: Absconding from the Index	0
Don Quixote and the Public	0
:Emancipation after Hegel: Achieving a Contradictory Revolution	0
“The Problem of Style in the Visual Arts”	0
:Planetary Longings	0
You Have Been Misconnected	0
:The Matter of Black Living: The Aesthetic Experiment of Racial Data, 1880–1930	0
Front Cover	0
:Stranger Fictions: A History of the Novel in Arabic Translation	0
Ecomedia in the Wild: Camera Traps, Geiger Counters, and Radioactive Boars	0
:Overshoot: How the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown	0
:Bread and Freedom: Egypt’s Revolutionary Situation	0
:Screening Fears: On Protective Media	0
Apostrophe, Animation, and Racism	0
:The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is: A History, a Philosophy, a Warning	0
: Repair the World: French Literature in the Twenty-First Century	0
Visible Yet Transparent: The Lens in Nineteenth-Century Photographic Cultures	0
Apostrophe’s Occasions: Two Postures of Abolitionist Address	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
Marjorie Perloff. Infrathin: An Experiment in Micropoetics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. 240 pp.	0
:Reading Shakespeare Reading Me	0
“I Am Restless to Live, As Nature Doth”: Cavendish and the Aesthetics of Beating Bodily Time	0
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