OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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

Article	Citations
Detour and Dao: Benjamin, with Jullien, contra the Ontology of the Event	143
Annual Index – Volume 40, 2023	83
Baudrillard and Heidegger: Between Two Deaths	45
Foucault’s 1960s Lectures on Sexuality	41
Mutual Futurity: Rethinking Incommensurability between Indigenous Sovereignty and Black Freedom	36
On Narrative: An Interview with Roland Barthes	35
Neoliberalism’s Persistence and the Struggle for What Comes After	26
Viscosity in Matter, Life and Sociality: The Case of Glacial Ice	25
Inheriting Cosmopolitics: Pericles, Whitehead, Stengers	24
Machine Learning, Synthetic Data, and the Politics of Difference	24
The Age of Anger and Social Media: Elias, Technology, Civilizing/Decivilizing Processes and Ressentiment	23
Michel Serres and the Philosophy of Technology	22
Ursula Le Guin’s Speculative Anthropology: Thick Description, Historicity and Science Fiction	22
Marcuse’s Contribution to Political Thought: On Potentiality, Pre-enactment, and the Surrealism of Liberation	20
Gillian Rose, Marxist Modernism	20
Mary Douglas on Purity and Danger: An Interview	19
The Backlash Against Neoliberal Globalization from Above: Elite Origins of the Crisis of the New Constitutionalism	18
Does the University Have a Future?	18
Bruno Latour and Religion: A Strange Parishioner	14
Projective Imagination: Vilém Flusser’s Concept of the Technical Image	14
Ontology or Theology? François Jullien and Chinese Vitalism	12
Simondon, Control and the Digital Domain	12
A Psychoanalytic Case for Anti-capitalism as an Organisational Form	12
Michel Serres’ Neglected Political Ecology in Dialogue with Bruno Latour’s Figure of Gaia	12
Bruno Latour and Translation	11

Field Theory and Assemblage Theory: Toward a Constructive Dialogue	11
Post-punk, Industrial Culture Zines, and the Information Dark Age	11
Comparing Artificial, Animal and Scientific Intelligence: A Dialogue with Giuseppe Longo	11
Symbiosis and the Humanitarian Marketplace: The Changing Political Economy of ‘Mutual Benefit’	9
Thanks to Reviewers	9
Containment and Leakage: Notes on a General Containerology	9
More Sex, Less Identity: Towards a Naturalistic Queer Theory	9
Marcuse Today: An Introduction	8
Adorno on Philosophy and Sociology	8
The Leaky Home: Conceptualizing the Remote Control of Smart Technologies in the Domestic Sphere	7
From the Confessional Booth to Digital Enclosures: Absolution as Cultural Technique	7
What Social Research Can Learn from Archaeology: Comparison as Juxtaposition and Conduction	7
The ‘Optimistic Cruelty’ of Hayek’s Market Order: Neoliberalism, Pain and Social Selection	7
Intimacy and the Transformation of the Public Sphere	7
Linguistics and Social Sciences	7
Review: Georg Simmel, Essays on Art and Aesthetics	6
Annual Index – Volume 41, 2024	6
Thanks to Reviewers	6
An Interview with Vinciane Despret: A Question Rarely Lives Up to Its Situation	6
Language, Figure, Landscape in Chinese Thought	6
Justice, Injustice and the Work of Julia Kristeva	5
The Land of the Moderns: The Sense of Latour’s Pragmatism	5
Popular Art, Crime and Urban Order Beyond the State	5
Critical Theory and Radical Psychoanalysis: Rethinking the Marcuse-Fromm Debate	5
Rethinking Posthumanist Subjectivity: Technology as Ontological Murder in European Colonialism	5
Andrew Feenberg, The Ruthless Critique of Everything Existing	5
Annual Index – Volume 38, 2021	5
From Scapegoating to the Culture of Cruelty: (Mis)Managing Mimetic Desire and Violence in Late Modernity	5
Rhetoric as Critique: Towards a Rhetorical Philosophy	4
Conceptualising Suspended Life: From Latency to Liminality	4
Interactive Computation and Artificial Epistemologies	4
Necropolitics and Surplus Life: Mbembe and Beyond	4
Coloniality, Epistemic Imbalance, and Africa’s Emigration Crisis	4
Was Spinoza a Deleuzian? Rethinking the Politics of Emotions and Affects	4
Huey Newton’s Lessons for the Academic Left	4
Native American Dis/possessions: Postcolonial Trauma in Hitchcock’s Vertigo	4
Latour and the Question of Politics: A Constitutional Reading	4
Speculative Empiricism, Nature and the Question of Predatory Abstractions: A Conversation with Didier Debaise	4
On the Varieties of Experience of Art	4
The Crab’s Efficacy	4
Artificial Intelligence and the Production of Judicial Truth	3
Emotions and the Systematization of Connective Labor	3
Interview with Andreas Reckwitz: A Society of Singularities	3
Megamachines, Forms of Reticulation and the Limits of Calculability	3
Financial Eschatology and the Libidinal Economy of Leverage	3
Between a Bird-in-the-Hand and Species Data in the Bank: Intermittent Care in Conservation Science	3
Digital Transformations and the Ideological Formation of the Public Sphere: Hegemonic, Populist, or Popular Communication?	3
Rethinking Critical Sociology, Transcending the Transcendental	3
The Dividual: Digital Practices and Biotechnologies	3
Solidifying Grounds: The Intricate Art of Foundation Building	3

Why Do Experts and Amateurs Diverge in Their Tastings? A Pragmatic Analysis of Perception	3
The Disunity in Genealogy: Foucault’s Anti-Nietzschean Reading of History	3
Decolonial and Ontological Challenges in Social and Anthropological Theory	3
Is Anti-totalitarian Theory Still Relevant? The Example of Claude Lefort	3
Moral Injury and the Psyche of Counterinsurgency	3
Interview with Werner Bonefeld: Open Marxism and the Critique of Society	3
The Brutalization of the World: Achille Mbembe, Brutalism	2
Reforesting Native America with Drones: Rooting Carbon with Arborescent Governmentality and Decolonial Geoengineering	2
After the Expansion: The Japanese University Crisis and a Vision of the Post-University	2
The Cultural Politics of Artificial Intelligence in China	2
Love, Games and Gamification: Gambling and Gaming as Techniques of Modern Romantic Love	2
Technoliberalism and the Network Social	2
Epigenomics and the Xenoformed Earth: Bioinformatic Ruminations with Gilbert Simondon	2
Walter Lippmann, Neoliberalism, and the Gathering Storm	2
The Society to Come	2
Software, Sovereignty and the Post-Neoliberal Politics of Exit	2
Activating Academic Voice: Explorations of the Media Landscape	2
Stefan Müller-Doohm’s Habermas: A Biography: Critical Reflections	2
Between Is Not Being	2
The ‘Cultures’ of Global Mental Health	2
Biosemiotics and Religion: Theoretical Perspectives on Language, Society and the Supernatural	1
Crisis, Experience, ‘Excentricity’	1
Getting Our Ontology Right: A Critique of Language and Culture in the Work of François Jullien	1
Michel Foucault in the 1950s: Beyond Psychology towards Radical Ontology	1
Chinese Television in Africa	1
Cruel Optimism as an Ecology of Powers	1
For Heaven-Human Conviviality: Reflections on Some ‘Ontological’ Narratives	1
Latent Freedom in Videogames	1
Political Theology: Origins, Concepts, and Contradictions	1
Nietzsche, Ontology, and Foucault’s Critical Project: To Perish from Absolute Knowledge	1
In-between Solidity and Fluidity: The Reclaimed Marshlands of Agro Pontino	1
Artistic Activism and Museum Accountability: Staging Antagonism in the Cultural Sphere	1
Pastorate Digitalized: Social Media and (De)Subjectification	1
Epidemic and Insurance: Two Forms of Solidarity	1
The Action of Non-Action: Walter Benjamin, Wu Wei and the Nature of Capitalism	1
On Disgrace: Scandal, Discredit and Denunciation within and across Fields	1
With and against Max Weber: A Conversation with Wendy Brown on Politics and Scholarship in Nihilistic Times	1
The Alt-Right: Neoliberalism, Libertarianism and the Fascist Temptation	1
Rizvana Bradley, Anteaesthetics: Black Aesthesis and the Critique of Form	1
Notes on Structuralism: Introduction	1
Faith in Fugitive Time: Safiya Sinclair’s Poetic Temporalities of Racialization	1
Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan, Code: From Information Theory to French Theory	1
Archaeological Stratigraphy and the Bifurcation of Time: Solido intra solidum	1
Decolonising the Earth: Anticolonial Environmentalism and the Soil of Empire	1
Drone Power: Conservation, Humanitarianism, Policing and War	1
Staying with the Secret: The Public Sphere in Platform Society	1
Interview with Renato Ortiz: Intersections between Sociology and Anthropology	1
Interview with Wu Ming 1: QAnon, Collective Creativity, and the (Ab)uses of Enchantment	1
Alienated Leisure: Reflections on The Tourist	1
Re-Reading Zhang Taiyan against François Jullien: Ontology and Political Critique in Chinese Thought	1
What Is a Neganthropic Institution?	1
Jacob Rogozinski, The Logic of Hatred: From Witch Hunts to the Terror	1
The Solutionist Ethic and the Spirit of Digital Capitalism	1
Bernard Stiegler and the Internation Project: An Introduction	1
Agamben and Platonic Communism: An Interpretation of The Coming Community	1
Art, Affect, and Social Media in the ‘No Dakota Access Pipeline’ Movement	1
The Relevance of Herbert Marcuse’s Thought Today: Or the Historical Fate of Bourgeois Democracy in and Beyond the Neoliberal Era	1
Thanks to Reviewers	1
The Logic of the Synthetic Supplement in Algorithmic Societies	1
Neoliberalism and Post-Truth: Expertise and the Market Model	1
Freud’s Media: Transference, Metaphor, and Nineteenth-Century Print Culture	1
Planetary Cities: Fluid Rock Foundations of Civilization	1
Exile Politics, Judaic Thought	1
Re-thinking the Liquid Core of Capitalism with Hyman Minsky	1