OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Theory Culture & Society is 3. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Baudrillard and Heidegger: Between Two Deaths	197
Michel Serres and the Philosophy of Technology	58
Machine Learning, Synthetic Data, and the Politics of Difference	55
Andrew Feenberg, The Ruthless Critique of Everything Existing	43
Artificial Intelligence and the Production of Judicial Truth	34
The Disunity in Genealogy: Foucault’s Anti-Nietzschean Reading of History	32
Why Do Experts and Amateurs Diverge in Their Tastings? A Pragmatic Analysis of Perception	26
Rethinking Posthumanist Subjectivity: Technology as Ontological Murder in European Colonialism	26
Decolonial and Ontological Challenges in Social and Anthropological Theory	25
Interview with Werner Bonefeld: Open Marxism and the Critique of Society	24
The Action of Non-Action: Walter Benjamin, Wu Wei and the Nature of Capitalism	19
Towards a Minor Logistics: Community and Ecology in a Watershed Project	18
Black Studies as Field Theory: Culture as Infrastructure	16
Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan, Code: From Information Theory to French Theory	15
Male Subcultures in Japan: Generating Sexual Capital and Gender-Class Mobility in a Low Birth Society	12
Re-Reading Zhang Taiyan against François Jullien: Ontology and Political Critique in Chinese Thought	12
Interview with Andreas Reckwitz: A Society of Singularities	12
Nietzsche, Ontology, and Foucault’s Critical Project: To Perish from Absolute Knowledge	10
Rethinking Critical Sociology, Transcending the Transcendental	9
Notes on Structuralism: Introduction	9
The Solutionist Ethic and the Spirit of Digital Capitalism	9
Bruno Latour, Pragmatism and Politics: A Researcher on a Mission	8
Jacob Rogozinski, The Logic of Hatred: From Witch Hunts to the Terror RogozinskiJacobThe Logic of Hatred: From Witch Hunts to the TerrorNew York: Fordham	8
The Antinomy of the Anthropocene: The Narrative of Enlightenment in Dipesh Chakrabarty’s Ecological Theory	6
Towards an Ontology of Contemporary Reality?	6

Latent Freedom in Videogames	6
Analyzing Narrative: Roland Barthes’ Forgotten Interview	6
Pastorate Digitalized: Social Media and (De)Subjectification	6
Narratives of Post-Truth: Lyotard and the Epistemic Fragmentation of Society	6
An Interview with Luc Boltanski and Arnaud Esquerre on Enrichment: A Critique of Commodities	6
By Way of Resemblance: On Benjamin’s Daoist Renewal of Dialectics	6
Against Renaissance Perspective: The Soaring Gaze	6
Animal Cultures at the Edge of Extinction	6
Judith Butler: Life, Philosophy, Politics, Ethics: E-Special Issue Introduction	6
Reflections on the Turn to Ageism in Contemporary Cultural Discourse	6
Human-Animal Relations: The Ontological Turn and the Return of Humanism	5
What Demarcates Necropolitics from Biopolitics? A Foucauldian Critique of Mbembe	5
Embodying Resistance: Politics and the Mobilization of Vulnerability	5
Foucault Before the Collège de France	5
The Politics of Clinic and Critique in Southern Brazil	5
With and after the Inquiry: How Do We Pragmatically Move from the Moderns to the Contemporaries?	5
From Computer Science to ‘Hermeneutic Web’: Towards a Contributory Design for Digital Technologies	5
Against Posthumanism: Notes towards an Ethopolitics of Personhood	5
Rethinking Human-Smartphone Interaction with Deleuze, Guattari, and Polanyi	4
Michel Serres’ Neglected Political Ecology in Dialogue with Bruno Latour’s Figure of Gaia	4
Mary Douglas on Purity and Danger: An Interview	4
Third Nature: On Shu Lea Cheang’s Film UKI and Nature’s Infestations of Technology	4
Race, Capitalism, and the Necessity/Contingency Debate	4
Post-punk, Industrial Culture Zines, and the Information Dark Age	4
The Jews Killed Moses: Sigmund Freud and the Jewish Question	4
The Recording Cure: A Media Genealogy of Recorded Voice in Psychotherapy	4
The Unhomely Colonial Home: Reflections on Moufida Tlatli, Leïla Slimani and Albert Camus	4
What Is a Neganthropic Institution?	3
Popular Art, Crime and Urban Order Beyond the State	3
Neoliberalism’s Persistence and the Struggle for What Comes After FraserNancyThe Old Is Dying and the New Cannot Be BornLondon: Verso, 2019, 64 pp. ISBN 978-1788732727BrownWendyIn the Ruins of Neolibe	3
Plants Against Property: Japanese Knotweed as Companion Species	3
Constructing Comparables	3
Decolonializing Climate Crisis: Theorizing Australian Black Summer Fires as Posthumanist and Indigenous Convergence	3
Is Anti-totalitarian Theory Still Relevant? The Example of Claude Lefort	3
Decolonising the Earth: Anticolonial Environmentalism and the Soil of Empire	3
The Logic of the Synthetic Supplement in Algorithmic Societies	3
Life or Being: What Possible Existence between Being and Living?	3
Agamben’s Politics of the Performative	3
Jullien the Apostate	3
Faith in Fugitive Time: Safiya Sinclair’s Poetic Temporalities of Racialization	3
Rizvana Bradley, Anteaesthetics: Black Aesthesis and the Critique of Form BradleyRizvanaAnteaesthetics: Black Aesthesis and the Critique of FormStanford:	3
Epidemic and Insurance: Two Forms of Solidarity	3
Counter-Extremism and ‘Critical Thinking’ as a Measure of the Human	3