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Papers

(The median citation count of Theory Culture & Society 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Baudrillard and Heidegger: Between Two Deaths	167
Michel Serres and the Philosophy of Technology	91
Ursula Le Guin’s Speculative Anthropology: Thick Description, Historicity and Science Fiction	51
Machine Learning, Synthetic Data, and the Politics of Difference	49
Andrew Feenberg, The Ruthless Critique of Everything Existing	49
Rethinking Posthumanist Subjectivity: Technology as Ontological Murder in European Colonialism	41
Interview with Werner Bonefeld: Open Marxism and the Critique of Society	39
Why Do Experts and Amateurs Diverge in Their Tastings? A Pragmatic Analysis of Perception	28
Artificial Intelligence and the Production of Judicial Truth	27
Solidifying Grounds: The Intricate Art of Foundation Building	25
Emotions and the Systematization of Connective Labor	22
Decolonial and Ontological Challenges in Social and Anthropological Theory	21
The Disunity in Genealogy: Foucault’s Anti-Nietzschean Reading of History	19
Biosemiotics and Religion: Theoretical Perspectives on Language, Society and the Supernatural	18
Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan, Code: From Information Theory to French Theory	16
Nietzsche, Ontology, and Foucault’s Critical Project: To Perish from Absolute Knowledge	16
Notes on Structuralism: Introduction	15
Jacob Rogozinski, The Logic of Hatred: From Witch Hunts to the Terror	14
Interview with Andreas Reckwitz: A Society of Singularities	14
Re-Reading Zhang Taiyan against François Jullien: Ontology and Political Critique in Chinese Thought	12
Rethinking Critical Sociology, Transcending the Transcendental	12
In-between Solidity and Fluidity: The Reclaimed Marshlands of Agro Pontino	11
The Action of Non-Action: Walter Benjamin, Wu Wei and the Nature of Capitalism	11
An Interview with Luc Boltanski and Arnaud Esquerre on Enrichment: A Critique of Commodities	11
The Solutionist Ethic and the Spirit of Digital Capitalism	11

Performance as Social Resistance: Pussy Riot as a Feminist Avant-garde	10
Bruno Latour, Pragmatism and Politics: A Researcher on a Mission	10
Against Renaissance Perspective: The Soaring Gaze	9
Judith Butler: Life, Philosophy, Politics, Ethics: E-Special Issue Introduction	9
The Antinomy of the Anthropocene: The Narrative of Enlightenment in Dipesh Chakrabarty’s Ecological Theory	9
Reflections on the Turn to Ageism in Contemporary Cultural Discourse	9
Elemental Memory: The Solid Fluidity of the Elements in the Nuclear Era	8
Towards an Ontology of Contemporary Reality?	8
Narratives of Post-Truth: Lyotard and the Epistemic Fragmentation of Society	8
Latent Freedom in Videogames	7
Post-Neoliberalism? An Introduction	7
Animal Cultures at the Edge of Extinction	7
Pastorate Digitalized: Social Media and (De)Subjectification	7
With and after the Inquiry: How Do We Pragmatically Move from the Moderns to the Contemporaries?	6
From Computer Science to ‘Hermeneutic Web’: Towards a Contributory Design for Digital Technologies	6
By Way of Resemblance: On Benjamin’s Daoist Renewal of Dialectics	6
Analyzing Narrative: Roland Barthes’ Forgotten Interview	6
The Politics of Clinic and Critique in Southern Brazil	5
Against Posthumanism: Notes towards an Ethopolitics of Personhood	5
Rethinking Human-Smartphone Interaction with Deleuze, Guattari, and Polanyi	5
Third Nature: On Shu Lea Cheang’s Film UKI and Nature’s Infestations of Technology	5
Foucault Before the Collège de France	5
The Jews Killed Moses: Sigmund Freud and the Jewish Question	5
Race, Capitalism, and the Necessity/Contingency Debate	5
Mary Douglas on Purity and Danger: An Interview	5
Embodying Resistance: Politics and the Mobilization of Vulnerability	5
The Recording Cure: A Media Genealogy of Recorded Voice in Psychotherapy	5
Human-Animal Relations: The Ontological Turn and the Return of Humanism	5
Neoliberalism’s Persistence and the Struggle for What Comes After	5
Moral Injury and the Psyche of Counterinsurgency	4
Michel Serres’ Neglected Political Ecology in Dialogue with Bruno Latour’s Figure of Gaia	4
The Dividual: Digital Practices and Biotechnologies	4
Rizvana Bradley, Anteaesthetics: Black Aesthesis and the Critique of Form	4
Post-punk, Industrial Culture Zines, and the Information Dark Age	4
Huey Newton’s Lessons for the Academic Left	4
Is Anti-totalitarian Theory Still Relevant? The Example of Claude Lefort	4
Decolonising the Earth: Anticolonial Environmentalism and the Soil of Empire	4
Viscosity in Matter, Life and Sociality: The Case of Glacial Ice	4
Popular Art, Crime and Urban Order Beyond the State	4
The Logic of the Synthetic Supplement in Algorithmic Societies	4
François Jullien’s Landscape, Site Selection, and Pattern Recognition	3
Constructing Comparables	3
Plants Against Property: Japanese Knotweed as Companion Species	3
Faith in Fugitive Time: Safiya Sinclair’s Poetic Temporalities of Racialization	3
Painting for Fools	3
Life or Being: What Possible Existence between Being and Living?	3
Agamben’s Politics of the Performative	3
Jullien the Apostate	3
Epidemic and Insurance: Two Forms of Solidarity	3
Organizing Counterpublics: Scenes from Contemporary Russia	3

Decolonializing Climate Crisis: Theorizing Australian Black Summer Fires as Posthumanist and Indigenous Convergence	3
What Is a Neganthropic Institution?	3
Amateurs’ Exploration of Wine: A Pragmatic Study of Taste	3
The Philosophy of Bitcoin and the Question of Money	2
Jeremy Bentham and the Neoclassical and Neoliberal Traditions: Architect or Adversary?	2
Financial Eschatology and the Libidinal Economy of Leverage	2
On the Varieties of Experience of Art	2
The ‘Optimistic Cruelty’ of Hayek’s Market Order: Neoliberalism, Pain and Social Selection	2
Contingency and Mysticism from Economics to Finance: Knight, Ayache, DeLillo	2
Between Habermas and Lyotard: Rethinking the Contrast between Modernity and Postmodernity	2
Counter-Extremism and ‘Critical Thinking’ as a Measure of the Human	2
I Exist, Therefore the World Thinks: Whitehead, Latour and the Scientific Aesthetics	2
The Oceanic Feeling: Experiencing the Eternal through Swimming	2
Review: Georg Simmel, Essays on Art and Aesthetics	2
Comparing Artificial, Animal and Scientific Intelligence: A Dialogue with Giuseppe Longo	2
Contemporary Art and Event-Based Social Theory	2
Corporate Public Spheres between Refeudalization and Revitalization	2
A New Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere? An Introduction	2
Entropy and Entropic Differences in the Work of Michel Serres	2
From the Confessional Booth to Digital Enclosures: Absolution as Cultural Technique	2
Coloniality, Epistemic Imbalance, and Africa’s Emigration Crisis	2
Pandemic Adjustments and Logistical Power	2
Ontology or Theology? François Jullien and Chinese Vitalism	2
Miyazaki Hayao’s Animism and the Anthropocene	2
Art, Extractivism, and the Ontological Shift: Toward a (Post)Extractivist Aesthetics	2
Introducing Solid Fluids	2
After the Expansion: The Japanese University Crisis and a Vision of the Post-University	1
For Heaven-Human Conviviality: Reflections on Some ‘Ontological’ Narratives	1
Bourdieu, Lacan and Field Theory: Neoliberal Doxa in the Economic Field	1
What Social Research Can Learn from Archaeology: Comparison as Juxtaposition and Conduction	1
Interactive Computation and Artificial Epistemologies	1
Transforming Toxic Materialities: Microbes in Anthropogenically Polluted Soils	1
The Land of the Moderns: The Sense of Latour’s Pragmatism	1
‘No Justice, No Peace’: Black Radicalism and the Atmospheres of the Internal Colony	1
Life Deactivated: Philosophies on the End of the World	1
Reflections and Hypotheses on a Further Structural Transformation of the Political Public Sphere	1
Thanks to Reviewers	1
Interview with Renato Ortiz: Intersections between Sociology and Anthropology	1
Intimacy and the Transformation of the Public Sphere	1
Staying with the Secret: The Public Sphere in Platform Society	1
Justice, Injustice and the Work of Julia Kristeva	1
A Solid Fluids Lexicon	1
Flattery, Truth-telling, and Social Theory	1
Activating Academic Voice: Explorations of the Media Landscape	1
Bruno Latour, Writer	1
Artistic Activism and Museum Accountability: Staging Antagonism in the Cultural Sphere	1
Pierre Bourdieu: E-Special Issue Introduction	1
Rhetoric as Critique: Towards a Rhetorical Philosophy	1
Alienated Leisure: Reflections on The Tourist	1
Vitalist Marxism: Georges Canguilhem and the Resistance of Life	1
Annual Index – Volume 38, 2021	1
Orienting Care: Boris Groys, Philosophy of Care	1
Inheriting Cosmopolitics: Pericles, Whitehead, Stengers	1
With and against Max Weber: A Conversation with Wendy Brown on Politics and Scholarship in Nihilistic Times	1
Mutual Futurity: Rethinking Incommensurability between Indigenous Sovereignty and Black Freedom	1
The Cultural Politics of Artificial Intelligence in China	1
Epigenomics and the Xenoformed Earth: Bioinformatic Ruminations with Gilbert Simondon	1
Conceptualising Suspended Life: From Latency to Liminality	1
The Scapegoat: Violence, Law and Origin	1
Neoliberalism and Post-Truth: Expertise and the Market Model	1
Cruel Optimism as an Ecology of Powers	1
Another Age of Anxiety: Psychological Distress and the ‘Asset Economy’	1
Bernard Stiegler and the Internation Project: An Introduction	1
Thanks to Reviewers	1
Necropolitics and Surplus Life: Mbembe and Beyond	1
The Crab’s Efficacy	1
Žižek at the Buchmesse: Evil, Cancel Culture, and the Difficulty of Diversity	1
Social Media and the Digital Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere	1
Unseating Mastery: The University and the Promise of the New	1
Bruno Latour and Translation	1
Review: African Art and the Transformational Role of Museums	1
On Narrative: An Interview with Roland Barthes	1
Love, Games and Gamification: Gambling and Gaming as Techniques of Modern Romantic Love	1
Digital Transformations and the Ideological Formation of the Public Sphere: Hegemonic, Populist, or Popular Communication?	1
QAnon and the Epistemic Communities of the Unreal: A Conceptual Toolkit for a Sociology of Grassroots Conspiracism	1
Annual Index – Volume 41, 2024	1