OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Critical Inquiry is 1. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The Universal Right to Breathe	72
Imagining Palestine’s Alter-Natives: Settler Colonialism and Museum Politics	42
Biopolitics in the Time of Coronavirus	40
Is This a Dress Rehearsal?	25
The Sultan and the Golden Spike; or, What Stratigraphers Can Teach Us about Temporality	21
Gas Guzzling Gaia, or: A Prehistory of Climate Change Denialism	16
Trans Realism, Psychoanalytic Practice, and the Rhetoric of Technique	13
Political Spirituality as the Will for Alterity: An Interview with the Nouvel Observateur	12
On the Difference between Anthropocene and Climate Change Temporalities	12
The Rise and Fall of Biopolitics: A Response to Bruno Latour	12
Surplus Data: An Introduction	9
In the Time of Pandemic, the Deep Structure of Biopower Is Laid Bare	9
Novel Corona: Posthuman Virus	9
Is Barbarism with a Human Face Our Fate?	7
Indexical AI	6
The Future Will Not Be Calculated: Neural Nets, Neoliberalism, and Reactionary Politics	6
Criticism and Truth	6
The Forgetting and Rediscovery of Soviet Machine Translation	5
Recursive Philosophy and Negative Machines	5
To Quarantine from Quarantine: Rousseau, Robinson Crusoe, and “I”	5
Introduction to Michel Foucault’s “Political Spirituality as the Will for Alterity”	5
Foucault, Neoliberalism, and Equality	5
Golden Age of Analog	5
The Algorithm Concept, 1684–1958	5
The Artist Is President: Performance Art and Other Keywords in the Age of Donald Trump	5

From Work to Proof of Work: Meaning and Value after Blockchain	5
Ground-Zero Empiricism	5
The Colonized Semites and the Infectious Disease: Theorizing and Narrativizing Anti-Semitism in the Levant, 1870–1914	5
COVID-19 Metaphors	4
Coronavirus: A Contingency that Eliminates Contingency	4
Romantic Disciplinarity and the Rise of the Algorithm	4
Critical Response II. The Theoretical Divide Driving Debates about Computation	4
Present Tense 2020: An Iconology of the Epoch	4
Anthropocene/Anthroposcene: Integrating Temporal and Spatial Aspects of Human-Planetary Interaction toward Ethical Adaptation	4
Artificial Antisemitism: Critical Theory in the Age of Datafication	4
Everywhere and Nowhere: Reflections on Phenomenology as Impossible and Indispensable (in Psychology and Psychiatry)	4
Critical Response III. On EDA, Complexity, and Redundancy: A Response to Underwood and Weatherby	3
Media: The Case of Spain and New Spain	3
Data as Symbolic Form: Datafication and the Imaginary Media of W. E. B. Du Bois	3
Wittgenstein in the Machine	3
“The Gene Didn’t Get the Memo”: Realigning Disciplines and Remaking Illness in Genomic Medicine	3
Archiving Praxis: For Palestine and Beyond	3
The Optical and the Environmental: From Screens to Screenscapes	3
Groundhog Day and theEpoché	3
The Art of Disciplined Imagination: Prediction, Scenarios, and Other Speculative Infrastructures	3
Critical Response I. Prolegomena to a Theory of Data: On the Most Recent Confrontation of Data and Literature	3
Microbiomimesis: Bacteria, Our Cognitive Collaborators	3
Viral Times	3
The Demon of Distraction	3
Anticipatory Care	2
Revisiting the Ferguson Report: Antiblack Concepts and the Practice of Policing	2
On Addressability, or What Even Is Computation?	2
The Ecology of Form	2
The New Rules of Knowledge: An Introduction	2
Out of the Dark	2
Surrounding and Surrounded: Toward a Conceptual History of Environment	2
Would a Shaman Help?	2
Dispossession and Discontinuity: The Impact of the 1967 War on Palestinian Thought	2
Christianity and Secularization	2
On the Digital Ocean	2
Temporalities of Israel/Palestine: Culture and Politics	2
On Cooperationism: An End to the Economic Plague	2
Toward Dematerialization: Light, Medium, Environment	2
Big Earths of China: Remotely Sensing Xinjiang along the Belt and Road	2
OK, Zoomer!	1
The Migration of a Form: An Ancient Concept of Justice Resurfaces in the Modern Artwork	1
In 1837/1838: World Literature and Law	1
How to Learn Together, Apart	1
Stillness	1
The Philological Apparatus: Science, Text, and Nation in the Nineteenth Century	1
On the Ruins of What’s to Come, I Stand: Time and Devastation in Syrian Cultural Production since 2011	1
Connecting Breaths	1
Introduction to Jacques Derrida’s “Christianity and Secularization”	1
Retinal Justice: Rats, Maps, and Masks	1
Max Weber’s Confucian Care of the Self	1

The Climatic Virus in an Age of Paralysis	1
You Have Been Misconnected	1
What Is a Book? Kant and the Law of the Letter	1
After Lucretius	1
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.	1
Don Quixote and the Public	1
COVID-19/EXPOSE	1
Apostrophe, Animation, and Racism	1
How to Remain Human in the Wrong Space? A Comment on a Dialogue by Carl Schmitt	1
Contemporary Political Adventures of Meaning: What Is Hegemony?	1
Aesthetic Archaeology	1
Editorial Note	1
Net-munity, or the Space between Us … Will Open the Future	1
Gregory Zinman. Making Images Move: Handmade Cinema and the Other Arts. Oakland, Calif.: University of California Press, 2020. 392 pp.	1
Karim Mattar. Specters of World Literature: Orientalism, Modernity, and the Novel in the Middle East. Edinburg: Edinburg University Press, 2020. 360 pp.	1
Peter Snowdon. The People Are Not an Image: Vernacular Video After the Arab Spring. New York: Verso Books, 2020. 304 pp.	1
Facing Up to the Sovereign: Pak Sheung Cheun’s Nightmare Wallpaper and Hong Kong’s Despair	1
Shay Hazkani. Dear Palestine: A Social History of the 1948 War. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2021. 352 pp.	1
Hanging in the Air	1
Visual Literacy and 1960s Photography	1
What the World Says: The Ottoman Empire, Interspecies Rape, and Climate in the Little Ice Age	1
Sonic Images of the Coronavirus	1
Posts from the Pandemic: An Introduction	1
Covidity	1
Computation and Interpretation in Literary Studies	1
Kenner’s Networks	1