| Abu Ghraib und die Folgen: ein Skandal als ikonische Wende im Krieg gegen den Terror W Binder transcript Verlag, 2013 | 43* | 2013 |
| The Emergence of Iconic Depth: Secular Icons in a Comparative Perspective W Binder Iconic Power. Materiality and Meaning in Social Life. New York; Houndmills …, 2012 | 33 | 2012 |
| Refugees as icons: Culture and iconic representation W Binder, BN Jaworsky Sociology Compass 12 (3), e12568, 2018 | 29 | 2018 |
| The drama of politics: Jeffrey Alexander’s liberal sociology of political performances W Binder Thesis Eleven 142 (1), 112-129, 2017 | 15 | 2017 |
| Memory Culture, the Civil Sphere, and Right-Wing Populism in Germany W Binder Populism in the civil sphere, 178-204, 2020 | 12 | 2020 |
| Ritual Dynamics of Torture: The Performance of Violence and Humiliation at the Abu Ghraib Prison W Binder State, Power, and Violence, 75-104, 2010 | 12* | 2010 |
| The semiotics of social life: Risto Heiskala Society as Semiosis (Peter Lang, 2003); Rein Raud Meaning in Action (Polity, 2016); Bob Hodge Social Semiotics for a Complex World … W Binder American Journal of Cultural Sociology 6, 401-416, 2018 | 11 | 2018 |
| Amok, Folter, Hooligans: Gewaltsoziologie nach Georges Bataille und Victor Turner B Giesen, W Binder, M Gerster, K Meyer | 11 | 2012 |
| AlphaGo’s deep play: Technological breakthrough as social drama W Binder The cultural life of machine learning: An incursion into critical AI studies …, 2021 | 9 | 2021 |
| Social imaginaries and the limits of differential meaning: A cultural sociological critique of symbolic meaning structures W Binder Österreichische Zeitschrift für Soziologie 44 (Suppl 2), 17-35, 2019 | 9 | 2019 |
| Being and Knowledge: On Some Liabilities of Reed’s Interpretivism D Bartmański, W Binder Sociologický časopis/Czech Sociological Review 51 (3), 499-511, 2015 | 9 | 2015 |
| Les formes élémentaires d’agir performatif. Un essai de typologie sociologique W Binder Cahiers de recherche sociologique, 75-96, 2011 | 9 | 2011 |
| Social Ontology, Cultural Sociology, and the War on Terror. Towards a Cultural Explanation of Institutional Change W Binder The Background of Social Reality, 163-181, 2013 | 8 | 2013 |
| Violence, Communication and Imagination: Pre-Modern, Totalitarian and Liberal-Democratic Torture W Binder Totalitarian Communication. Hierarchies, Codes and Messages, 217-247, 2010 | 8 | 2010 |
| Tales of abuse and torture: The narrative framing of the Abu Ghraib photographs W Binder Framing excessive violence: Discourse and dynamics, 197-223, 2015 | 6 | 2015 |
| Die Robinsonade W Binder Gründungsszenen soziologischer Theorie, 139-154, 2014 | 6 | 2014 |
| What’s at Stake inTorture? W Binder, TF Driver, B Stephenson Ritual, Media, and Conflict, 223-253, 2011 | 6 | 2011 |
| Technology as (dis-) enchantment. AlphaGo and the meaning-making of artificial intelligence W Binder Cultural Sociology 18 (1), 24-47, 2024 | 5 | 2024 |
| Shifting imaginaries in the War on Terror: The rise and fall of the ticking bomb torturer W Binder Social Imaginaries 2 (1), 119-150, 2016 | 5 | 2016 |
| Ungefähres: Gewalt, Mythos, Moral B Giesen Velbrück Wiss., 2014 | 5 | 2014 |
