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

Article	Citations
Baudrillard and Heidegger: Between Two Deaths	177
Michel Serres and the Philosophy of Technology	96
Ursula Le Guin’s Speculative Anthropology: Thick Description, Historicity and Science Fiction	53
Machine Learning, Synthetic Data, and the Politics of Difference	53
Andrew Feenberg, The Ruthless Critique of Everything Existing	52
Rethinking Posthumanist Subjectivity: Technology as Ontological Murder in European Colonialism	42
Interview with Werner Bonefeld: Open Marxism and the Critique of Society	41
Artificial Intelligence and the Production of Judicial Truth	28
Why Do Experts and Amateurs Diverge in Their Tastings? A Pragmatic Analysis of Perception	28
The Disunity in Genealogy: Foucault’s Anti-Nietzschean Reading of History	26
Decolonial and Ontological Challenges in Social and Anthropological Theory	22
Emotions and the Systematization of Connective Labor	21
The Action of Non-Action: Walter Benjamin, Wu Wei and the Nature of Capitalism	19
In-between Solidity and Fluidity: The Reclaimed Marshlands of Agro Pontino	18
Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan, Code: From Information Theory to French Theory	16
Notes on Structuralism: Introduction	16
Nietzsche, Ontology, and Foucault’s Critical Project: To Perish from Absolute Knowledge	16
Interview with Andreas Reckwitz: A Society of Singularities	15
Jacob Rogozinski, The Logic of Hatred: From Witch Hunts to the Terror	15
Re-Reading Zhang Taiyan against François Jullien: Ontology and Political Critique in Chinese Thought	12
Rethinking Critical Sociology, Transcending the Transcendental	12
The Solutionist Ethic and the Spirit of Digital Capitalism	11
Male Subcultures in Japan: Generating Sexual Capital and Gender-Class Mobility in a Low Birth Society	11
Black Studies as Field Theory: Culture as Infrastructure	11
Towards a Minor Logistics: Community and Ecology in a Watershed Project	10

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

Faith in Fugitive Time: Safiya Sinclair’s Poetic Temporalities of Racialization	3
Corporate Public Spheres between Refeudalization and Revitalization	2
The Philosophy of Bitcoin and the Question of Money	2
Between Habermas and Lyotard: Rethinking the Contrast between Modernity and Postmodernity	2
The Oceanic Feeling: Experiencing the Eternal through Swimming	2
Ontology or Theology? François Jullien and Chinese Vitalism	2
The ‘Optimistic Cruelty’ of Hayek’s Market Order: Neoliberalism, Pain and Social Selection	2
Jeremy Bentham and the Neoclassical and Neoliberal Traditions: Architect or Adversary?	2
A New Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere? An Introduction	2
Introducing Solid Fluids	2
Life or Being: What Possible Existence between Being and Living?	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
Pandemic Adjustments and Logistical Power	2
Review: Georg Simmel, Essays on Art and Aesthetics	2
Art, Extractivism, and the Ontological Shift: Toward a (Post)Extractivist Aesthetics	2
Constructing Comparables	2
Contemporary Art and Event-Based Social Theory	2
Entropy and Entropic Differences in the Work of Michel Serres	2
From the Confessional Booth to Digital Enclosures: Absolution as Cultural Technique	2
Comparing Artificial, Animal and Scientific Intelligence: A Dialogue with Giuseppe Longo	2
Financial Eschatology and the Libidinal Economy of Leverage	2
Conceptualising Suspended Life: From Latency to Liminality	1
Justice, Injustice and the Work of Julia Kristeva	1
Another Age of Anxiety: Psychological Distress and the ‘Asset Economy’	1
The Scapegoat: Violence, Law and Origin	1
Necropolitics and Surplus Life: Mbembe and Beyond	1
Interactive Computation and Artificial Epistemologies	1
Annual Index – Volume 38, 2021	1
Transforming Toxic Materialities: Microbes in Anthropogenically Polluted Soils	1
‘No Justice, No Peace’: Black Radicalism and the Atmospheres of the Internal Colony	1
Intimacy and the Transformation of the Public Sphere	1
Reflections and Hypotheses on a Further Structural Transformation of the Political Public Sphere	1
Thanks to Reviewers	1
Epigenomics and the Xenoformed Earth: Bioinformatic Ruminations with Gilbert Simondon	1
Ecodependence: The Intrinsic Connection between Living and Killing	1
With and against Max Weber: A Conversation with Wendy Brown on Politics and Scholarship in Nihilistic Times	1
Flattery, Truth-telling, and Social Theory	1
Coloniality, Epistemic Imbalance, and Africa’s Emigration Crisis	1
On the Varieties of Experience of Art	1
Bourdieu, Lacan and Field Theory: Neoliberal Doxa in the Economic Field	1
Artistic Activism and Museum Accountability: Staging Antagonism in the Cultural Sphere	1
What Social Research Can Learn from Archaeology: Comparison as Juxtaposition and Conduction	1
The Crab’s Efficacy	1
Thanks to Reviewers	1
Annual Index – Volume 41, 2024	1
Vitalist Marxism: Georges Canguilhem and the Resistance of Life	1
Orienting Care: Boris Groys, Philosophy of Care	1
Inheriting Cosmopolitics: Pericles, Whitehead, Stengers	1
A Solid Fluids Lexicon	1
Mutual Futurity: Rethinking Incommensurability between Indigenous Sovereignty and Black Freedom	1
Staying with the Secret: The Public Sphere in Platform Society	1
Social Media and the Digital Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere	1
Love, Games and Gamification: Gambling and Gaming as Techniques of Modern Romantic Love	1
Life Deactivated: Philosophies on the End of the World	1
Digital Transformations and the Ideological Formation of the Public Sphere: Hegemonic, Populist, or Popular Communication?	1
Pierre Bourdieu: E-Special Issue Introduction	1
Narratives of Resistance: Foucault’s Case Studies and the History of Transgression	1
Bernard Stiegler and the Internation Project: An Introduction	1
Rhetoric as Critique: Towards a Rhetorical Philosophy	1
The Land of the Moderns: The Sense of Latour’s Pragmatism	1
Review: African Art and the Transformational Role of Museums	1
Žižek at the Buchmesse: Evil, Cancel Culture, and the Difficulty of Diversity	1
Bruno Latour, Writer	1
Unseating Mastery: The University and the Promise of the New	1
Bruno Latour and Translation	1
Interview with Renato Ortiz: Intersections between Sociology and Anthropology	1
On Narrative: An Interview with Roland Barthes	1
The Cultural Politics of Artificial Intelligence in China	1
QAnon and the Epistemic Communities of the Unreal: A Conceptual Toolkit for a Sociology of Grassroots Conspiracism	1