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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Machine Learning, Synthetic Data, and the Politics of Difference	232
Michel Serres and the Philosophy of Technology	66
Situating Castoriadis: Radical Democracy, Political Ontology, and the ‘Turn’ to Imagination	60
Andrew Feenberg, The Ruthless Critique of Everything Existing	42
Artificial Intelligence and the Production of Judicial Truth	40
Rethinking Posthumanist Subjectivity: Technology as Ontological Murder in European Colonialism	36
Why Do Experts and Amateurs Diverge in Their Tastings? A Pragmatic Analysis of Perception	32
The Disunity in Genealogy: Foucault’s Anti-Nietzschean Reading of History	26
Interview with Werner Bonefeld: Open Marxism and the Critique of Society	21
Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan, Code: From Information Theory to French Theory	20
Towards a Minor Logistics: Community and Ecology in a Watershed Project	20
Interview with Andreas Reckwitz: A Society of Singularities	19
Rethinking Critical Sociology, Transcending the Transcendental	17
Jacob Rogozinski, The Logic of Hatred: From Witch Hunts to the Terror RogozinskiJacobThe Logic of Hatred: From Witch Hunts to the TerrorNew York: Fordham	13
Re-Reading Zhang Taiyan against François Jullien: Ontology and Political Critique in Chinese Thought	11
Black Studies as Field Theory: Culture as Infrastructure	10
Notes on Structuralism: Introduction	10
The Solutionist Ethic and the Spirit of Digital Capitalism	9
Nietzsche, Ontology, and Foucault’s Critical Project: To Perish from Absolute Knowledge	9
An Alienated Emancipation? Todd McGowan in Conversation	9
The Action of Non-Action: Walter Benjamin, Wu Wei and the Nature of Capitalism	9
Organic Neoliberalism: A.O. Hirschman’s ‘Exit Option’ and Grassroots Processes of Marketization	9
Judith Butler: Life, Philosophy, Politics, Ethics: E-Special Issue Introduction	8
The Antinomy of the Anthropocene: The Narrative of Enlightenment in Dipesh Chakrabarty’s Ecological Theory	8
Latent Freedom in Videogames	8

Male Subcultures in Japan: Generating Sexual Capital and Gender-Class Mobility in a Low Birth Society	8
Against Renaissance Perspective: The Soaring Gaze	8
Animal Cultures at the Edge of Extinction	7
Reflections on the Turn to Ageism in Contemporary Cultural Discourse	7
Narratives of Post-Truth: Lyotard and the Epistemic Fragmentation of Society	7
Bruno Latour, Pragmatism and Politics: A Researcher on a Mission	7
Pastorate Digitalized: Social Media and (De)Subjectification	7
Analyzing Narrative: Roland Barthes’ Forgotten Interview	6
The Time of the Snail: Castoriadis, Zapatista Autonomy and the Radical Imaginary Today	6
Technodiversity, Political Form, and the Task of Planetary Thinking: A Conversation with Yuk Hui	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
Chromorganization and Business Organization BeyesTimonOrganizing Color: Towards a Chromatics of the Social. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2024, 292 pp. ISBN: 978-1503638303	6
Towards an Ontology of Contemporary Reality?	6
Foucault Before the Collège de France	5
From Computer Science to ‘Hermeneutic Web’: Towards a Contributory Design for Digital Technologies	5
Human-Animal Relations: The Ontological Turn and the Return of Humanism	5
With and after the Inquiry: How Do We Pragmatically Move from the Moderns to the Contemporaries?	5
Embodying Resistance: Politics and the Mobilization of Vulnerability	5
The Jews Killed Moses: Sigmund Freud and the Jewish Question	4
Picturing Trauma: Freud, Resilience and Visual Agency in the Neuro Sciences	4
Against Posthumanism: Notes towards an Ethopolitics of Personhood	4
The Unhomely Colonial Home: Reflections on Moufida Tlatli, Leïla Slimani and Albert Camus	4
Third Nature: On Shu Lea Cheang’s Film UKI and Nature’s Infestations of Technology	4
What Demarcates Necropolitics from Biopolitics? A Foucauldian Critique of Mbembe	4
Mary Douglas on Purity and Danger: An Interview	4
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	4
The Recording Cure: A Media Genealogy of Recorded Voice in Psychotherapy	4
Race, Capitalism, and the Necessity/Contingency Debate	4
Post-punk, Industrial Culture Zines, and the Information Dark Age	4
The Dwelling Question: A Critical Theory of the Bourgeois Home	4
Plants Against Property: Japanese Knotweed as Companion Species	3
Life or Being: What Possible Existence between Being and Living?	3
Counter-Extremism and ‘Critical Thinking’ as a Measure of the Human	3
Is Anti-totalitarian Theory Still Relevant? The Example of Claude Lefort	3
Faith in Fugitive Time: Safiya Sinclair’s Poetic Temporalities of Racialization	3
Michel Serres’ Neglected Political Ecology in Dialogue with Bruno Latour’s Figure of Gaia	3
Planet Electric: Revisiting The Nomos of the Earth	3
Constructing Comparables	3
François Jullien’s Landscape, Site Selection, and Pattern Recognition	3
Rizvana Bradley, Anteaesthetics: Black Aesthesis and the Critique of Form BradleyRizvanaAnteaesthetics: Black Aesthesis and the Critique of FormStanford:	3
The Logic of the Synthetic Supplement in Algorithmic Societies	3
Agamben’s Politics of the Performative	3
Epidemic and Insurance: Two Forms of Solidarity	3
Reactionary Bricolage: Curtis Yarvin and Postliberalism	3
Decolonializing Climate Crisis: Theorizing Australian Black Summer Fires as Posthumanist and Indigenous Convergence	3
What Is a Neganthropic Institution?	3
Decolonising the Earth: Anticolonial Environmentalism and the Soil of Empire	3
Jullien the Apostate	3