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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Jing Wang. The Other Digital China: Nonconfrontational Activism on the Social Web. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2019. 320 pp.	23
Toward Dematerialization: Light, Medium, Environment	17
Big Earths of China: Remotely Sensing Xinjiang along the Belt and Road	9
Revenge Tragedy: Harriet Martineau, the Haitian Revolution, and Reparations	8
:Inventions of a Present: The Novel in Its Crisis of Globalization	6
Tessa Morris-Suzuki. Japan’s Living Politics: Grassroots Action and the Crises of Democracy. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. 236 pp.	6
Jonathan Rauch. The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2021. 280 pp.	6
:Percy Shelley for Our Times	6
Eliza Steinbock. Shimmering Images: Trans Cinema, Embodiment, and the Aesthetics of Change. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2019. 248 pp.	6
:Radium of the Word: A Poetics of Materiality	5
Isaac Ariail Reed. Power in Modernity: Agency Relations and the Creative Destruction of the King’s Two Bodies. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. 283 pp.	4
:Digital Lethargy: Dispatches from an Age of Disconnection	4
A Peripheral Vision: Framing the Cultural Bias in the Center of Photography	3
The Draw of the Mark	3
:Meir Kahane: The Public Life and Political Thought of an American Jewish Radical	3
:Professing Criticism: Essays on the Organization of Literary Study	3
On the Fence: Media, Ecology, Marx	3
:Behind the Angel of History: The Angelus Novus and Its Interleaf	3
:Countries That Don’t Exist: Selected Nonfiction	3
:Engaging Violence: Civility and the Reach of Literature	2
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Nadya Bair. The Decisive Network: Magnum Photos and the Postwar Image. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2020. 336 pp.	2
Susan Stewart. The Ruins Lesson: Meaning and Material in Western Culture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. 379 pp.	2
:Nervous Systems: Art, Systems, and Politics since the 1960s	2
:Emancipation after Hegel: Achieving a Contradictory Revolution	2

Jennifer L. Morgan. Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2021. 296 pp.	1
Trans Romance: Queer Intimacy and the Problem of Inexistence in the Modern Novel	1
Dispossession and Discontinuity: The Impact of the 1967 War on Palestinian Thought	1
Race,Get Out, and the Advent of (Enforced) Skepticism	1
Kafka’s Animal Machines	1
Just Sabotage	1
Between Conformity and Dissent: Two Chinese Thinkers in Search of Esotericism	1
Geraldine Heng. The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages. Cambridge, Mass.: Cambridge University Press, 2018. 510 pp.	1
Xiao Liu. Information Fantasies: Precarious Mediation in Postsocialist China. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019. 318 pp.	1
The Weather in Sedgwick	1
Braxton Soderman. Against Flow: Video Games and the Flowing Subject. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2021. 328 pp.	1
The Art of Disciplined Imagination: Prediction, Scenarios, and Other Speculative Infrastructures	1
Fiftieth Anniversary	1
:The Privilege of Play: A History of Hobby Games, Race, and Geek Culture	1
:The Plastic Turn	1
:On the Edge: Feeling Precarious in China	1
:Creatures of the Air: Music, Atlantic Spirits, Breath, 1817–1913	1
Susanne von Falkenhausen. Beyond the Mirror: Seeing in Art History and Visual Culture Studies. Bielefeld: transcript, 2020. 251 pp.	1
Queer Rigidity: Habit and the Limits of the Performativity Thesis	1
Amia Srinivasan. The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021. 304 pp.	1
Thinking on Film with Arendt and Cavell	1
Set Design Thinking and the Art of the Human	1
:Book, Text, Medium: Cross-Sectional Reading for a Digital Age	1
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:Vernacular English: Reading the Anglophone in Postcolonial India	1
Doron Galili. Seeing by Electricity: The Emergence of Television, 1878–1939. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2020. 247 pp.	1
The Ecology of Form	1
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Brian Winston and Matthew Winston. The Roots of Fake News: Objecting to Objective Journalism. New York: Routledge, 2021. 224 pp.	1
:The Great Debate: Nietzsche, Culture, and the Scandinavian Welfare Society	0
:Winning Lebanon: Youth Politics, Populism, and the Production of Sectarian Violence, 1920–1958	0
Max Weber’s Confucian Care of the Self	0
Garrett Stewart. Cinemachines: An Essay on Media and Method. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. 201 pp.	0
Dinah Ribard. 1969: Michel Foucault et la question de l’auteur: “Qu’est-ce qu’un auteur?” Texte, présentation, et commentaire. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2019. 110 pp.	0
:Poetics of Breathing: Modern Literature’s Syncope	0
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Seamus Deane. Small World: Ireland 1798–2018. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021. 364 pp.	0
Dora Zhang. Strange Likeness: Description and the Modernist Novel. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. 246 pp.	0
Unnatural Images: On AI-Generated Photographs	0
The True Story of Fictionality	0
Critical Response II: Diamonds and Rust	0
:Professing Criticism: Essays on the Organization of Literary Study	0
Peter Limbrick. Arab Modernism as World Cinema: The Films of Moumen Smihi. Oakland: University of California Press, 2020. 302 pp.	0
Foucault, Neoliberalism, and Equality	0
Make Way for Infrastructure	0
Judith Butler. The Force of Nonviolence: An Ethico-Political Bind. New York: Verso, 2020. 209 pp.	0
:Racial Blackness and Indian Ocean Slavery: Iran’s Cinematic Archive	0
:Extraction Ecologies and the Literature of the Long Exhaustion	0
:The Digitally Disposed: Racial Capitalism and the Informatics of Value	0
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Master Meter: Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, and the History of Lyric	0
Sentiment Analysis and the Sentimental Novel	0
Corroded with SCUM: Valerie Solanas’s Theories of Mind	0
:Arte Programmata: Freedom, Control, and the Computer in 1960s Italy	0
Travis Vogan. The Boxing Film: A Cultural and Transmedia History. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2021. 208 pp.	0
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What Is an Author?	0
:Memory Art in the Contemporary World: Confronting Violence in the Global South	0
Artificial Antisemitism: Critical Theory in the Age of Datafication	0
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Karim Mattar. Specters of World Literature: Orientalism, Modernity, and the Novel in the Middle East. Edinburg: Edinburg University Press, 2020. 360 pp.	0
:Liberalism as a Way of Life	0
What’s the Matter with Computational Literary Studies?	0
Reading Advice to Parents about Children’s Sleep: The Political Psychology of a Self-Help Genre	0
Queer Curiosity	0
Hans Blumenberg. St. Matthew Passion. Trans. Helmut Müller-Sievers and Paul Fleming. New York: Cornell University Press, 2021. 246 pp.	0
The Sultan and the Golden Spike; or, What Stratigraphers Can Teach Us about Temporality	0
Andrea Gadberry. Cartesian Poetics: The Art of Thinking. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. 206 pp.	0
“The Problem of Style in the Visual Arts”	0
A Situationist in Autumn: Guy Debord, Translator of Jorge Manrique	0
:Fragments: The Existential Situation of Our Time and Filaments: Theological Profiles, vols. 1–2 of Selected Essays	0
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Daniela Flesler and Adrián Pérez Melgosa. The Memory Work of Jewish Spain. Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 2020. 390 pp.	0
:The Sociology of Literature	0
Recursive Philosophy and Negative Machines	0
Rachel Teukolsky. Picture World: Image, Aesthetics, and Victorian New Media. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. 480 pp.	0
Conceptual Scheming: L. J. Henderson, Practice, and the Harvard View of Science	0
Granular Worlds: Situating the Sand Table in Media History	0
Contemporary Political Adventures of Meaning: What Is a Floating Signifier?	0
Stillness	0
On the Digital Ocean	0
“Respirators, Not Furnished”: On Reading Muriel Rukeyser in the Pandemic and Other Disasters	0
:Understanding Barthes, Understanding Modernism	0
:Big Fiction: How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature	0
:Queer Velocities: Time, Sex, and Biopower on the Early Modern Stage.	0
The Reification of the World: Poetry and Conquest in Marcel Broodthaers’s Maps	0
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:Melancholy Acts: Defeat and Cultural Critique in the Arab World	0
:Thresholds, Encounters: Paul Celan and the Claim of Philology	0
Dreams of the Universal Library	0
Sean Cubitt. Anecdotal Evidence: Ecocritique from Hollywood to the Mass Image. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. 305 pp.	0
Mana Kia. Persianate Selves: Memories of Place and Origin Before Nationalism. Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press, 2020. 371 pp.	0
Old Trees, Wild Rivers: CI at Fifty	0
Daniel M. Herskowitz. Heidegger and His Jewish Reception. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021. 346 pp.	0
“Gas Guzzling Gaia”: Some New Camera Angles on a Pivotal Scene	0
The Four-Color Theorem and the Aesthetics of Computational Proof	0
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:The Blue Period: Black Writing in the Early Cold War	0
Hannah Zeavin. The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2021. 328 pp.	0
Molly Warnock. Simon Hantaï and the Reserves of Painting. University Park, Penn.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2020. 280 pp.	0
Corey Byrnes. Fixing Landscape: A Techno-Poetic History of China’s Three Gorges. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018. 344 pp.	0
Joachim J. Savelsberg. Knowing about Genocide: Armenian Suffering and Epistemic Struggles. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2021. 264 pp.	0
Facing Up to the Sovereign: Pak Sheung Cheun’s Nightmare Wallpaper and Hong Kong’s Despair	0
:Inventing the Alphabet: The Origins of Letters from Antiquity to the Present	0
:The Force of Truth: Critique, Genealogy, and Truth-Telling in Michel Foucault	0
Fassbinder, Functionalism, and the Beauty of Braun Design	0
On a Misunderstood Art (1959)	0
:Degenerations of Democracy	0
:Bread and Freedom: Egypt’s Revolutionary Situation	0
:What Pornography Knows: Sex and Social Protest since the Eighteenth Century	0
Golden Age of Analog	0
:The Grounds of the Novel	0
Marc Steinberg. The Platform Economy: How Japan Transformed the Consumer Internet. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019. 297 pp.	0
:Queer Forms	0
:The Politics of Art: Dissent and Cultural Diplomacy in Lebanon, Palestine, and Jordan	0
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The Truth of Value: A Conversation with Theaster Gates	0
Kevin Quashie. Black Aliveness, or a Poetics of Being. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2021. 248 pp.	0
:Reconfiguring the Portrait	0
:How I Became a Tree	0
Schematizations, or How to Draw a Thought	0
Pleistocene Park: Engineering Wilderness in a More-than-Human World	0
:A Face Drawn in Sand: Humanistic Inquiry and Foucault in the Present	0
Maia Kotrosits. The Lives of Objects: Material Culture, Experience and the Real in the History of Early Christianity. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. 243 pp.	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
:The Crisis of Narration	0
Karen Redrobe and Jeff Scheible, eds. Deep Mediations: Thinking Space in Cinema and Digital Culture. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2021. 416 pp.	0
Media: The Case of Spain and New Spain	0
Algorithmic Abduction: Robots for Alien Reading	0

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Marjorie Perloff. Infrathin: An Experiment in Micropoetics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. 240 pp.	0
James Leo Cahill and Luca Caminati, eds. Cinema of Exploration: Essays on an Adventurous Film Practice. New York: Routledge, 2021. 348 pp.	0
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Lines Left to Cross: Deglobalization and the Domestic Western in Bong Joon-ho’sParasite	0
Zeynep Çelik Alexander and John May. Design Technics: Archaeologies of Architectural Practice. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2020. 262 pp.	0
Building Duration: Architecture Out of Adventure-Time	0
Don Quixote and the Public	0
:Planetary Longings	0
:The Chapter: A Segmented History from Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century	0
Cressida J. Heyes. Anaesthetics of Existence: Essays on Experience at the Edge. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2020. 192 pp.	0
:Take This Hammer: Work, Song, Crisis	0
Notational/Poetics: Noting, Gleaning, Itinerary	0
Jacob Gaboury. Image Objects: An Archaeology of Computer Graphics. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2021. 312 pp.	0
Anahid Nersessian. The Calamity Form: On Poetry and Social Life. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. 240 pp.	0
:Fredric Jameson and Film Theory: Marxism, Allegory, and Geopolitics in World Cinema	0
#COVID, Crisis, and the Search for Story in the Platform Age	0
Critical Response I: Photography and AI: Why It Matters, Though	0
Critical Response IV: “Crystal Blue Persuasion”	0
Dump Puppetry: Ecology, Play, and Object Performance	0
:Screening Fears: On Protective Media	0
:Allegorical Moments: Call to the Everyday	0
Critical Response VI:Creatures of Habit	0
Panofsky’s Debut	0
:Health Communism	0
Transcreation and Self-Translation in Contemporary Latinx Poetry	0
Critical Response III: Some Field Notes	0
:Mu, 49 Marks of Abolition	0
:The Other Synaesthesia	0
Eugene T. Richardson. Epidemic Illusions: On the Coloniality of Global Public Health. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2020. 224 pp.	0
The Future Will Not Be Calculated: Neural Nets, Neoliberalism, and Reactionary Politics	0
:Modern Times: Temporality in Art and Politics	0
Walt Hunter. Forms of a World: Contemporary Poetry and the Making of Globalization. New York: Fordham University Press, 2019. 192 pp.	0
Critical Response II: A Response to Catherine Gallagher	0
:Human Rights and Oppressed Peoples: Collected Essays and Speeches	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
Shay Hazkani. Dear Palestine: A Social History of the 1948 War. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2021. 352 pp.	0
:Dwelling in Fiction: Poetics of Place and the Experimental Novel in Latin America	0
Modernism Is Not for Children: Annette Michelson, Film Theory, and the Avant-Garde	0
Apostrophe, Animation, and Racism	0
:Prisoner of the Infidels: The Memoir of an Ottoman Muslim in Seventeenth-Century Europe	0
Samantha N. Sheppard. Sporting Blackness: Race, Embodiment, and Critical Muscle Memory on Screen. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2020. 264 pp.	0
:States of Disconnect: The China-India Literary Relation in the Twentieth Century	0
Gayle Rogers. Speculation: A Cultural History from Aristotle to AI. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021. 264 pp.	0
Command of Media’s Metaphors	0
Archiving Praxis: For Palestine and Beyond	0
What Is a Book? Kant and the Law of the Letter	0
:The Origins of Russian Literary Theory: Folklore, Philology, Form	0
Temporalities of Israel/Palestine: Culture and Politics	0
Terry Smith. Art to Come: Histories of Contemporary Art. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2019. 456 pp.	0
:The Romantic Rhetoric of Accumulation	0
:Quit Everything: Interpreting Depression	0
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: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	0
:Stranger Fictions: A History of the Novel in Arabic Translation	0
:Free Indirect: The Novel in a Postfictional Age	0
:The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is: A History, a Philosophy, a Warning	0
Rehabilitory Modernism: László Moholy-Nagy’s Occupational Therapy at the School of Design in Chicago	0
:Judicial Uses of Images: Vision in Decision	0
:Phenomenal Blackness: Black Power, Philosophy, and Theory	0
Critical Response III: After Straight Pride	0
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:The Poverty of Ethics	0
Rita Felski. Hooked: Art and Attachment. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. 200 pp.	0
Apostrophe’s Occasions: Two Postures of Abolitionist Address	0
Stanley Cavell. Here and There: Sites of Philosophy, ed. Nancy Bauer, Alice Crary, and Sandra Laugier. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2022. 336 pp.	0
Critical Response VII: Theories We Desire With: A Rejoinder	0
Gregory Zinman. Making Images Move: Handmade Cinema and the Other Arts. Oakland, Calif.: University of California Press, 2020. 392 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
Critical Response I: A Response to Benedict S. Robinson, “The True Story of Fictionality”	0
Introduction: Medium/Environment	0
From Work to Proof of Work: Meaning and Value after Blockchain	0
Situation: A Narrative Concept	0
Fabienne Verdier and the Force between Words	0
:Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad	0
Naftali Bezem on the Green Line	0
The Art of Text-to-Speech	0
:The Torture Camp on Paradise Street	0
:The Arts of Disruption: Allegory and “Piers Plowman.”	0
Does Communist Art Exist?	0
The Lyric It	0
Critical Response IV: This Photo Does Not Exist: Generativity and the AI Gaze	0
:Curating Capitalism: How Art Impacts Business, Management, and Economy.	0
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Critical Response V: “Rather Like a Habit”	0
The National Security Novel: “Useful Fiction,” Persuasive Emotions, and the Securitization of Literature	0
:The Machines of Evolution and the Scope of Meaning	0
What the World Says: The Ottoman Empire, Interspecies Rape, and Climate in the Little Ice Age	0
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:Serial Forms: The Unfinished Project of Modernity, 1815–1848	0
After Turing: How Philosophy Migrated to the AI Lab	0
Caterina Scaramelli. How to Make a Wetland: Water and Moral Ecology in Turkey. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2021. 240 pp.	0
Critical Response V: AI-Generated Images and Photography: The General and the Specific	0
:Formal Matters: Embodied Experience in Modern Literature	0