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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 2021-04-01 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
Gillian Rose, Marxist Modernism	20
Marcuse’s Contribution to Political Thought: On Potentiality, Pre-enactment, and the Surrealism of Liberation	20
Mary Douglas on Purity and Danger: An Interview	19
Does the University Have a Future?	18
The Backlash Against Neoliberal Globalization from Above: Elite Origins of the Crisis of the New Constitutionalism	18
Bruno Latour and Religion: A Strange Parishioner	14
Projective Imagination: Vilém Flusser’s Concept of the Technical Image	14
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
Ontology or Theology? François Jullien and Chinese Vitalism	12
Simondon, Control and the Digital Domain	12
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
Bruno Latour and Translation	11
Thanks to Reviewers	9
Containment and Leakage: Notes on a General Containerology	9
More Sex, Less Identity: Towards a Naturalistic Queer Theory	9
Symbiosis and the Humanitarian Marketplace: The Changing Political Economy of ‘Mutual Benefit’	9
Adorno on Philosophy and Sociology	8
Marcuse Today: An Introduction	8
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
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
Language, Figure, Landscape in Chinese Thought	6
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
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
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
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
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
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
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