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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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Baudrillard and Heidegger: Between Two Deaths	155
Ursula Le Guin’s Speculative Anthropology: Thick Description, Historicity and Science Fiction	88
Michel Serres and the Philosophy of Technology	48
Machine Learning, Synthetic Data, and the Politics of Difference	45
Andrew Feenberg, The Ruthless Critique of Everything Existing	44
Solidifying Grounds: The Intricate Art of Foundation Building	38
Rethinking Posthumanist Subjectivity: Technology as Ontological Murder in European Colonialism	38
Interview with Werner Bonefeld: Open Marxism and the Critique of Society	27
Artificial Intelligence and the Production of Judicial Truth	25
Why Do Experts and Amateurs Diverge in Their Tastings? A Pragmatic Analysis of Perception	25
The Disunity in Genealogy: Foucault’s Anti-Nietzschean Reading of History	24
Emotions and the Systematization of Connective Labor	22
Decolonial and Ontological Challenges in Social and Anthropological Theory	20
Nietzsche, Ontology, and Foucault’s Critical Project: To Perish from Absolute Knowledge	18
Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan, Code: From Information Theory to French Theory	15
In-between Solidity and Fluidity: The Reclaimed Marshlands of Agro Pontino	15
Jacob Rogozinski, The Logic of Hatred: From Witch Hunts to the Terror	14
Notes on Structuralism: Introduction	14
Interview with Andreas Reckwitz: A Society of Singularities	13
Rethinking Critical Sociology, Transcending the Transcendental	13
Biosemiotics and Religion: Theoretical Perspectives on Language, Society and the Supernatural	12
Re-Reading Zhang Taiyan against François Jullien: Ontology and Political Critique in Chinese Thought	11
The Solutionist Ethic and the Spirit of Digital Capitalism	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	10

Elemental Memory: The Solid Fluidity of the Elements in the Nuclear Era	9
Performance as Social Resistance: Pussy Riot as a Feminist Avant-garde	9
Pastorate Digitalized: Social Media and (De)Subjectification	9
Bruno Latour, Pragmatism and Politics: A Researcher on a Mission	9
Against Renaissance Perspective: The Soaring Gaze	8
The Antinomy of the Anthropocene: The Narrative of Enlightenment in Dipesh Chakrabarty’s Ecological Theory	8
Judith Butler: Life, Philosophy, Politics, Ethics: E-Special Issue Introduction	7
Towards an Ontology of Contemporary Reality?	7
Narratives of Post-Truth: Lyotard and the Epistemic Fragmentation of Society	7
Reflections on the Turn to Ageism in Contemporary Cultural Discourse	7
Latent Freedom in Videogames	7
Animal Cultures at the Edge of Extinction	6
With and after the Inquiry: How Do We Pragmatically Move from the Moderns to the Contemporaries?	6
Analyzing Narrative: Roland Barthes’ Forgotten Interview	6
By Way of Resemblance: On Benjamin’s Daoist Renewal of Dialectics	6
Embodying Resistance: Politics and the Mobilization of Vulnerability	6
From Computer Science to ‘Hermeneutic Web’: Towards a Contributory Design for Digital Technologies	6
Post-Neoliberalism? An Introduction	5
Foucault Before the Collège de France	5
The Recording Cure: A Media Genealogy of Recorded Voice in Psychotherapy	5
Foucault’s 1960s Lectures on Sexuality	5
Rethinking Human-Smartphone Interaction with Deleuze, Guattari, and Polanyi	5
Race, Capitalism, and the Necessity/Contingency Debate	5
Neoliberalism’s Persistence and the Struggle for What Comes After	5
Viscosity in Matter, Life and Sociality: The Case of Glacial Ice	5
The Politics of Clinic and Critique in Southern Brazil	5
Against Posthumanism: Notes towards an Ethopolitics of Personhood	5
Mary Douglas on Purity and Danger: An Interview	5
The Jews Killed Moses: Sigmund Freud and the Jewish Question	5
The Logic of the Synthetic Supplement in Algorithmic Societies	4
Moral Injury and the Psyche of Counterinsurgency	4
Popular Art, Crime and Urban Order Beyond the State	4
Is Anti-totalitarian Theory Still Relevant? The Example of Claude Lefort	4
The Dividual: Digital Practices and Biotechnologies	4
Post-punk, Industrial Culture Zines, and the Information Dark Age	4
Michel Serres’ Neglected Political Ecology in Dialogue with Bruno Latour’s Figure of Gaia	4
Decolonising the Earth: Anticolonial Environmentalism and the Soil of Empire	4
Faith in Fugitive Time: Safiya Sinclair’s Poetic Temporalities of Racialization	4
Huey Newton’s Lessons for the Academic Left	4
Rizvana Bradley, Anteaesthetics: Black Aesthesis and the Critique of Form	4
Epidemic and Insurance: Two Forms of Solidarity	3
Agamben’s Politics of the Performative	3
Constructing Comparables	3
What Is a Neganthropic Institution?	3
Amateurs’ Exploration of Wine: A Pragmatic Study of Taste	3
Painting for Fools	3
Life or Being: What Possible Existence between Being and Living?	3
Jullien the Apostate	3
Plants Against Property: Japanese Knotweed as Companion Species	3
Organizing Counterpublics: Scenes from Contemporary Russia	3

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