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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
:Meir Kahane: The Public Life and Political Thought of an American Jewish Radical	23
The Ecology of Form	20
Between Conformity and Dissent: Two Chinese Thinkers in Search of Esotericism	15
Brian Winston and Matthew Winston. The Roots of Fake News: Objecting to Objective Journalism. New York: Routledge, 2021. 224 pp.	12
Peter Snowdon. The People Are Not an Image: Vernacular Video After the Arab Spring. New York: Verso Books, 2020. 304 pp.	8
:Radium of the Word: A Poetics of Materiality	8
:The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence	7
Big Earths of China: Remotely Sensing Xinjiang along the Belt and Road	7
Kafka’s Animal Machines	7
Toward Dematerialization: Light, Medium, Environment	6
:Apropos of Something: A History of Irrelevance and Relevance	6
:The Book-Makers: A History of the Book in Eighteen Lives	6
The Four-Color Theorem and the Aesthetics of Computational Proof	6
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.	5
Ryan Johnson. Transnationalism and Translation in Modern Chinese, English, French and Japanese Literatures. New York: Anthem Press, 2021. 216 pp.	4
On Addressability, or What Even Is Computation?	4
:Fragments: The Existential Situation of Our Time and Filaments: Theological Profiles, vols. 1–2 of Selected Essays	4
“Respirators, Not Furnished”: On Reading Muriel Rukeyser in the Pandemic and Other Disasters	4
Kate Crawford. Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2021. 336 pp.	3
Indexical AI	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 against	3
Pleistocene Park: Engineering Wilderness in a More-than-Human World	3
:Ideology and Politics	3
Front Matter	3
:Operation Valhalla: Writings on War, Weapons, and Media	3

Derek Jarman and Everything That Is the Case	2
Front Cover	2
Sensitivity and Sensing: Toward a Processual Media Theory of Electromagnetic Vibrations	2
Artificial Antisemitism: Critical Theory in the Age of Datafication	2
Surplus Data: An Introduction	2
Front Cover	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.	1
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
Critical Response VII: Theories We Desire With: A Rejoinder	1
:Take This Hammer: Work, Song, Crisis	1
Michael Clune. A Defense of Judgment. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. 256 pp.	1
Old Trees, Wild Rivers: CI at Fifty	1
Tessa Morris-Suzuki. Japan’s Living Politics: Grassroots Action and the Crises of Democracy. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. 236 pp.	1
Jacob Gaboury. Image Objects: An Archaeology of Computer Graphics. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2021. 312 pp.	1
On the Digital Ocean	1
:The Politics of Art: Dissent and Cultural Diplomacy in Lebanon, Palestine, and Jordan	1
:Curating Capitalism: How Art Impacts Business, Management, and Economy.	1
:The Blue Period: Black Writing in the Early Cold War	1
What Is an Author?	1
Granular Worlds: Situating the Sand Table in Media History	1
:Making the World Clean: Wasted Lives, Wasted Environment, and Racial Capitalism	1
:On Belonging and Not Belonging: Translation, Migration, Replacement	1
Race,Get Out, and the Advent of (Enforced) Skepticism	1
:Maladies of the Will: The American Novel and the Modernity Problem	1
Libraries as “Academic Traffic Facilities”: Interlibrary Loan Imaginations after 1945	1
Terry Smith. Art to Come: Histories of Contemporary Art. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2019. 456 pp.	1
Just Sabotage	1
:Queer Velocities: Time, Sex, and Biopower on the Early Modern Stage.	1
Recursive Philosophy and Negative Machines	1
Front Matter	1
:The Poverty of Ethics	1
Critical Response I: A Response to Benedict S. Robinson, “The True Story of Fictionality”	1
:Dwelling in Fiction: Poetics of Place and the Experimental Novel in Latin America	1
Bernard E. Harcourt. Critique and Praxis: A Radical Critical Philosophy of Illusions, Values, and Actions. New York: Columbia University Press. 696 pp.	1
:Ludwig Binswanger and Fernand Deligny on the Human Condition: Wandering Lines	1
:Digital Lethargy: Dispatches from an Age of Disconnection	1
The Draw of the Mark	1
Kevin Quashie. Black Aliveness, or a Poetics of Being. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2021. 248 pp.	1
What’s the Matter with Computational Literary Studies?	1
:Reading Shakespeare Reading Me	0
Front Cover	0
:Mu, 49 Marks of Abolition	0
Reading between Freedom and Necessity	0
Apostrophe’s Occasions: Two Postures of Abolitionist Address	0
Alenda Y. Chang. Playing Nature: Ecology in Video Games. Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 2019. 281 pp.	0
Stillness	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
:Engaging Violence: Civility and the Reach of Literature	0
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:The Torture Camp on Paradise Street	0
A Peripheral Vision: Framing the Cultural Bias in the Center of Photography	0
Dump Puppetry: Ecology, Play, and Object Performance	0
Naftali Bezem on the Green Line	0
Front Matter	0
:Formal Matters: Embodied Experience in Modern Literature	0
Zeynep Çelik Alexander and John May. Design Technics: Archaeologies of Architectural Practice. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2020. 262 pp.	0
:The Plastic Turn	0
:The Book of Politics: China in Theory	0
Dreams of the Universal Library	0
:The Matter of Black Living: The Aesthetic Experiment of Racial Data, 1880–1930	0
Front Cover	0
From Work to Proof of Work: Meaning and Value after Blockchain	0
Karim Mattar. Specters of World Literature: Orientalism, Modernity, and the Novel in the Middle East. Edinburg: Edinburg University Press, 2020. 360 pp.	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
:What Pornography Knows: Sex and Social Protest since the Eighteenth Century	0
Front Cover	0
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“The Problem of Style in the Visual Arts”	0
Media: The Case of Spain and New Spain	0
Front Matter	0
Critical Response IIReply to John Brenkman	0
Mana Kia. Persianate Selves: Memories of Place and Origin Before Nationalism. Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press, 2020. 371 pp.	0
:“The Savage Detectives” Reread	0
“Gas Guzzling Gaia”: Some New Camera Angles on a Pivotal Scene	0
Critical Response I: Photography and AI: Why It Matters, Though	0
:Before the West: The Rise and Fall of Eastern World Orders	0
Front Matter	0
Foucault, Neoliberalism, and Equality	0
Peter Limbrick. Arab Modernism as World Cinema: The Films of Moumen Smihi. Oakland: University of California Press, 2020. 302 pp.	0
Front Cover	0
Transcreation and Self-Translation in Contemporary Latinx Poetry	0
Critical Response I A Response to Jonathan Kramnick, “Criticism and Truth”	0
:Nervous Systems: Art, Systems, and Politics since the 1960s	0
Schematizations, or How to Draw a Thought	0
Front Matter	0
Thinking on Film with Arendt and Cavell	0
:Modern Times: Temporality in Art and Politics	0
:Percy Shelley for Our Times	0
Sentiment Analysis and the Sentimental Novel	0
Aesthetic Archaeology	0
:On the Edge: Feeling Precarious in China	0
:Planetary Longings	0
Michel Mourlet’s “On a Misunderstood Art (1959)”: Plunging Back into the Screen	0
:Screening Fears: On Protective Media	0
Does Communist Art Exist?	0
:The Sociology of Literature	0
The Plant at the End of the World: Precious Okoyomon’s Invasive Art	0
Speech, Media, and Early Modern English Writing	0
The True Story of Fictionality	0
:Health Communism	0
Front Matter	0
:Sayyid Qutb: An Intellectual Biography	0
:Emancipation after Hegel: Achieving a Contradictory Revolution	0
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.	0
Facing Up to the Sovereign: Pak Sheung Cheun’s Nightmare Wallpaper and Hong Kong’s Despair	0
Into the Abyss: Vilém Flusser’s Theories of Art, Nature, and Culture	0
Critical Response II: Absconding from the Index	0
:Big Fiction: How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature	0
:Book, Text, Medium: Cross-Sectional Reading for a Digital Age	0
Eugene T. Richardson. Epidemic Illusions: On the Coloniality of Global Public Health. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2020. 224 pp.	0
Corey Byrnes. Fixing Landscape: A Techno-Poetic History of China’s Three Gorges. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018. 344 pp.	0
Revenge Tragedy: Harriet Martineau, the Haitian Revolution, and Reparations	0
Iconoclash in Northern Italy circa 1500	0
Notational/Poetics: Noting, Gleaning, Itinerary	0
:Behind the Angel of History: The Angelus Novus and Its Interleaf	0
:Bread and Freedom: Egypt’s Revolutionary Situation	0
Fabienne Verdier and the Force between Words	0
Front Matter	0
The Weather in Sedgwick	0
:Free Indirect: The Novel in a Postfictional Age	0
:Stranger Fictions: A History of the Novel in Arabic Translation	0
:The Kinds of Poetry I Want: Essays & Comedies	0
Rachel Teukolsky. Picture World: Image, Aesthetics, and Victorian New Media. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. 480 pp.	0
Cuteness Envy	0
Ecomedia in the Wild: Camera Traps, Geiger Counters, and Radioactive Boars	0
Mycoaesthetics	0
:Pathologies of Motion: Historical Thinking in Medicine, Aesthetics, and Poetics	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

Reading as if for Death	0
Front Matter	0
Algorithmic Abduction: Robots for Alien Reading	0
#COVID, Crisis, and the Search for Story in the Platform Age	0
Unnatural Images: On AI-Generated Photographs	0
:Reconfiguring the Portrait	0
:Monumental Graffiti: Tracing Public Art and Resistance in the City	0
Critical Response V: AI-Generated Images and Photography: The General and the Specific	0
:Stop Thief! Anarchism and Philosophy	0
:Creatures of the Air: Music, Atlantic Spirits, Breath, 1817–1913	0
Gayle Rogers. Speculation: A Cultural History from Aristotle to AI. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021. 264 pp.	0
:Nihilistic Times: Thinking with Max Weber	0
Archiving Praxis: For Palestine and Beyond	0
Panofsky’s Debut	0
Achille Mbembe. Brutalisme. Paris: Éditions La Découverte, 2020. 246 pp.	0
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Don Quixote and the Public	0
:The Other Synaesthesia	0
Hannah Zeavin. The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2021. 328 pp.	0
:Arte Programmata: Freedom, Control, and the Computer in 1960s Italy	0
Craig Dworkin. Dictionary Poetics: Toward a Radical Lexicography. New York: Fordham University Press, 2020. 272 pp.	0
Trans Romance: Queer Intimacy and the Problem of Inexistence in the Modern Novel	0
On the Fence: Media, Ecology, Marx	0
:Disavowal	0
Rachel Sagner Buurma and Laura Heffernan. The Teaching Archive: A New History for Literary Study. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. 320 pp.	0
Translation as Different: A View from Linguistic Relativity	0
Conceptual Scheming: L. J. Henderson, Practice, and the Harvard View of Science	0
Joan Wallach Scott On the Judgment of History. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. 114 pp.	0
:The Crisis of Narration	0
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:The Afterlife of Moses: Exile, Democracy, Renewal	0
Hans Blumenberg. St. Matthew Passion. Trans. Helmut Müller-Sievers and Paul Fleming. New York: Cornell University Press, 2021. 246 pp.	0
Victorian Equations	0
Visible Yet Transparent: The Lens in Nineteenth-Century Photographic Cultures	0
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:Vernacular English: Reading the Anglophone in Postcolonial India	0
Apostrophe, Animation, and Racism	0
Fiftieth Anniversary	0
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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
:A Face Drawn in Sand: Humanistic Inquiry and Foucault in the Present	0
Max Weber’s Confucian Care of the Self	0
Corroded with SCUM: Valerie Solanas’s Theories of Mind	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
Walt Hunter. Forms of a World: Contemporary Poetry and the Making of Globalization. New York: Fordham University Press, 2019. 192 pp.	0
Daniela Flesler and Adrián Pérez Melgosa. The Memory Work of Jewish Spain. Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 2020. 390 pp.	0
:Cosmic Connections: Poetry in the Age of Disenchantment	0
Reading Anew	0
:The Force of Truth: Critique, Genealogy, and Truth-Telling in Michel Foucault	0
:Professing Criticism: Essays on the Organization of Literary Study	0
Critical Response III: Some Field Notes	0
:Understanding Barthes, Understanding Modernism	0
Andil Gosine. Nature’s Wild: Love, Sex, and Law in the Caribbean. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2021. 192 pp.	0
Situation: A Narrative Concept	0
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James Leo Cahill and Luca Caminati, eds. Cinema of Exploration: Essays on an Adventurous Film Practice. New York: Routledge, 2021. 348 pp.	0
:The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is: A History, a Philosophy, a Warning	0
Dina Danon. The Jews of Ottoman Izmir: A Modern History. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2020. 241 pp.	0
Margaret Hillenbrand. Negative Exposures: Knowing What Not to Know in Contemporary China. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2020. 292 pp.	0
Golden Age of Analog	0
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Fassbinder, Functionalism, and the Beauty of Braun Design	0
White Women Wondering and the Contortions of Childfree Writing	0
Critical Response II: Diamonds and Rust	0
Marjorie Perloff. Infrathin: An Experiment in Micropoetics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. 240 pp.	0
:Bad Education: Why Queer Theory Teaches Us Nothing	0
The Optical and the Environmental: From Screens to Screenscapes	0
Sean Cubitt. Anecdotal Evidence: Ecocritique from Hollywood to the Mass Image. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. 305 pp.	0
:Immortal Films: “Casablanca” and the Afterlife of a Hollywood Classic	0
:Architecture against Democracy: Histories of the Nationalist International	0
:Serial Forms: The Unfinished Project of Modernity, 1815–1848	0
The Reification of the World: Poetry and Conquest in Marcel Broodthaers’s Maps	0
Photography and Semiotics: Use and Purpose	0
Critical Response III: After Straight Pride	0
:Racial Blackness and Indian Ocean Slavery: Iran’s Cinematic Archive	0
:Allegorical Moments: Call to the Everyday	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
Tina Young Choi. Victorian Contingencies: Experiments in Literature, Science, and Play. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2022. 246 pp.	0
Braxton Soderman. Against Flow: Video Games and the Flowing Subject. 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
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Critical Response I: Queer Theory Continues to Take Shape	0
:Phenomenal Blackness: Black Power, Philosophy, and Theory	0
Surrounding and Surrounded: Toward a Conceptual History of Environment	0
You Have Been Misconnected	0
:Thresholds, Encounters: Paul Celan and the Claim of Philology	0
What Is a Book? Kant and the Law of the Letter	0
Neoliberal Subjectivation: Between Foucault and Marx	0
:Inventing the Alphabet: The Origins of Letters from Antiquity to the Present	0
The Truth of Value: A Conversation with Theaster Gates	0
Eric Hayot. Humanist Reason: A History. An Argument. A Plan. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021. 324 pp.	0
Caterina Scaramelli. How to Make a Wetland: Water and Moral Ecology in Turkey. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2021. 240 pp.	0
A Situationist in Autumn: Guy Debord, Translator of Jorge Manrique	0
The Art of Text-to-Speech	0
:How I Became a Tree	0