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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 2021-06-01 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
Rethinking Posthumanist Subjectivity: Technology as Ontological Murder in European Colonialism	38
Solidifying Grounds: The Intricate Art of Foundation Building	38
Interview with Werner Bonefeld: Open Marxism and the Critique of Society	27
Why Do Experts and Amateurs Diverge in Their Tastings? A Pragmatic Analysis of Perception	25
Artificial Intelligence and the Production of Judicial Truth	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
In-between Solidity and Fluidity: The Reclaimed Marshlands of Agro Pontino	15
Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan, Code: From Information Theory to French Theory	15
Jacob Rogozinski, The Logic of Hatred: From Witch Hunts to the Terror	14
Notes on Structuralism: Introduction	14
Rethinking Critical Sociology, Transcending the Transcendental	13
Interview with Andreas Reckwitz: A Society of Singularities	13
Biosemiotics and Religion: Theoretical Perspectives on Language, Society and the Supernatural	12
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
Re-Reading Zhang Taiyan against François Jullien: Ontology and Political Critique in Chinese Thought	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
The Antinomy of the Anthropocene: The Narrative of Enlightenment in Dipesh Chakrabarty’s Ecological Theory	8
Against Renaissance Perspective: The Soaring Gaze	8
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
Judith Butler: Life, Philosophy, Politics, Ethics: E-Special Issue Introduction	7
Towards an Ontology of Contemporary Reality?	7
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Epidemic and Insurance: Two Forms of Solidarity	3
Agamben’s Politics of the Performative	3

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