Critical Inquiry

@CriticalInquiry · Hyde Park, Chicago · joined 15 Oct 2011

Founded in 1974, Critical Inquiry is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal devoted to the best critical thought in the arts and humanities.

14 816Followers

254Following

2 523Posts total

6.8KViews on collected posts

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Critical Inquiry@CriticalInquiry5 Sep

"Paralleling an exponential expansion of book knowledge, these specimens spurred a wholesale revamp of media systems for organizing, indexing, and storing samples and information." From our new issue, read Tung-Hui Hu's "Grids and Bags": https://t.co/qgfAh2zno7 https://t.co/1jEs

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Critical Inquiry@CriticalInquiry3 Sep

"A hybrid subjectivity is emerging on the horizon of the twenty-first century." Read Franco “Bifo” Berardi's "The Bitter Cup: Notes about Artificial Intelligence and Natural Stupidity" on the CI blog. https://t.co/S2ufKy3wGj 2.3K views · 31 likes · 8 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Critical Inquiry@CriticalInquiry3 Sep

"Magarik reads Adam, Raphael, and Michael as character-narrators whose fallible narration is an essential part of Milton’s project of accommodation." New in review, Eve Houghton on Raphael Magarik's Fictions of God: https://t.co/iCRnYpOfwk https://t.co/dVnWryHVad

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Critical Inquiry@CriticalInquiry1 Sep

Autumn issue is out now! Featuring essays by Violet Spurlock, Tung-Hui Hu, Jessica Sherrill, Grace Lavery, Garrett Stewart, George Baker, Martha Schwendener, and Vilém Flusser https://t.co/Jo5gSWkFWQ https://t.co/E3I9l90QEI

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Critical Inquiry@CriticalInquiry1 Sep

"Hooke’s complex engagement with obviousness directly informs his various declarations of intellectual property." From our new issue, read Violet Spurlock's "An Anatomy of Obviousness": https://t.co/0tCV03XtcG https://t.co/eT28wDsRr3

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Against accounts of the same size

5 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown to more people than peers of the same size.

Median views998this account950median for 10K–100K

Reach, %6.74%this account3.57%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %1.73%this account1.96%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	998	950	1.05×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	6.74%	3.57%	1.89×
Engagement rate	1.73%	1.96%	0.88×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

6711 Sep

2.3K

9983 Sep

2.3K

5515 Sep

Last 5 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.30%1 Sep

1.97%

1.90%3 Sep

1.73%

1.27%5 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.96%.

What the audience does

Likes56.9%95 in total

Reposts9.6%16 in total

Quotes1.2%2 in total

Bookmarks32.3%54 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.