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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Baudrillard and Heidegger: Between Two Deaths	167
Michel Serres and the Philosophy of Technology	91
Ursula Le Guin’s Speculative Anthropology: Thick Description, Historicity and Science Fiction	51
Andrew Feenberg, The Ruthless Critique of Everything Existing	49
Machine Learning, Synthetic Data, and the Politics of Difference	49
Rethinking Posthumanist Subjectivity: Technology as Ontological Murder in European Colonialism	41
Interview with Werner Bonefeld: Open Marxism and the Critique of Society	39
Why Do Experts and Amateurs Diverge in Their Tastings? A Pragmatic Analysis of Perception	28
Artificial Intelligence and the Production of Judicial Truth	27
Solidifying Grounds: The Intricate Art of Foundation Building	25
Emotions and the Systematization of Connective Labor	22
Decolonial and Ontological Challenges in Social and Anthropological Theory	21
The Disunity in Genealogy: Foucault’s Anti-Nietzschean Reading of History	19
Biosemiotics and Religion: Theoretical Perspectives on Language, Society and the Supernatural	18
Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan, Code: From Information Theory to French Theory	16
Nietzsche, Ontology, and Foucault’s Critical Project: To Perish from Absolute Knowledge	16
Notes on Structuralism: Introduction	15
Jacob Rogozinski, The Logic of Hatred: From Witch Hunts to the Terror	14
Interview with Andreas Reckwitz: A Society of Singularities	14
Re-Reading Zhang Taiyan against François Jullien: Ontology and Political Critique in Chinese Thought	12
Rethinking Critical Sociology, Transcending the Transcendental	12
In-between Solidity and Fluidity: The Reclaimed Marshlands of Agro Pontino	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	11
The Solutionist Ethic and the Spirit of Digital Capitalism	11

Performance as Social Resistance: Pussy Riot as a Feminist Avant-garde	10
Bruno Latour, Pragmatism and Politics: A Researcher on a Mission	10
Against Renaissance Perspective: The Soaring Gaze	9
Judith Butler: Life, Philosophy, Politics, Ethics: E-Special Issue Introduction	9
The Antinomy of the Anthropocene: The Narrative of Enlightenment in Dipesh Chakrabarty’s Ecological Theory	9
Reflections on the Turn to Ageism in Contemporary Cultural Discourse	9
Elemental Memory: The Solid Fluidity of the Elements in the Nuclear Era	8
Towards an Ontology of Contemporary Reality?	8
Narratives of Post-Truth: Lyotard and the Epistemic Fragmentation of Society	8
Post-Neoliberalism? An Introduction	7
Animal Cultures at the Edge of Extinction	7
Pastorate Digitalized: Social Media and (De)Subjectification	7
Latent Freedom in Videogames	7
From Computer Science to ‘Hermeneutic Web’: Towards a Contributory Design for Digital Technologies	6
By Way of Resemblance: On Benjamin’s Daoist Renewal of Dialectics	6
Analyzing Narrative: Roland Barthes’ Forgotten Interview	6
With and after the Inquiry: How Do We Pragmatically Move from the Moderns to the Contemporaries?	6
The Politics of Clinic and Critique in Southern Brazil	5
Against Posthumanism: Notes towards an Ethopolitics of Personhood	5
Rethinking Human-Smartphone Interaction with Deleuze, Guattari, and Polanyi	5
Third Nature: On Shu Lea Cheang’s Film UKI and Nature’s Infestations of Technology	5
Foucault Before the Collège de France	5
The Jews Killed Moses: Sigmund Freud and the Jewish Question	5
Race, Capitalism, and the Necessity/Contingency Debate	5
Mary Douglas on Purity and Danger: An Interview	5
Embodying Resistance: Politics and the Mobilization of Vulnerability	5
The Recording Cure: A Media Genealogy of Recorded Voice in Psychotherapy	5
Human-Animal Relations: The Ontological Turn and the Return of Humanism	5
Neoliberalism’s Persistence and the Struggle for What Comes After	5
Moral Injury and the Psyche of Counterinsurgency	4
Michel Serres’ Neglected Political Ecology in Dialogue with Bruno Latour’s Figure of Gaia	4
The Dividual: Digital Practices and Biotechnologies	4
Rizvana Bradley, Anteaesthetics: Black Aesthesis and the Critique of Form	4
Post-punk, Industrial Culture Zines, and the Information Dark Age	4
Huey Newton’s Lessons for the Academic Left	4
Is Anti-totalitarian Theory Still Relevant? The Example of Claude Lefort	4
Decolonising the Earth: Anticolonial Environmentalism and the Soil of Empire	4
Viscosity in Matter, Life and Sociality: The Case of Glacial Ice	4
Popular Art, Crime and Urban Order Beyond the State	4
The Logic of the Synthetic Supplement in Algorithmic Societies	4
Plants Against Property: Japanese Knotweed as Companion Species	3
Faith in Fugitive Time: Safiya Sinclair’s Poetic Temporalities of Racialization	3
Painting for Fools	3
Life or Being: What Possible Existence between Being and Living?	3
Agamben’s Politics of the Performative	3
Jullien the Apostate	3
Epidemic and Insurance: Two Forms of Solidarity	3
Organizing Counterpublics: Scenes from Contemporary Russia	3
Decolonializing Climate Crisis: Theorizing Australian Black Summer Fires as Posthumanist and Indigenous Convergence	3
What Is a Neganthropic Institution?	3

Amateurs’ Exploration of Wine: A Pragmatic Study of Taste	3
François Jullien’s Landscape, Site Selection, and Pattern Recognition	3
Constructing Comparables	3