Toward a Critical Poetics of Securitization: A response to Anker, Castronovo, Harkins, Masterson, and Williams (2016)
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Botha, M. (2016). Toward a Critical Poetics of Securitization: A response to Anker, Castronovo, Harkins, Masterson, and Williams. American Literary History, 28(4), 779-786. https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajw054

In this brief set of responses to the five challenging and insightful articles gathered above under the banner, Security Studies and American Literary History, I draw attention to a particularly pressing area for future research on the relation betwe... Read More about Toward a Critical Poetics of Securitization: A response to Anker, Castronovo, Harkins, Masterson, and Williams.

Precarious Present, Fragile Futures: Literature and Uncertainty in the Early Twenty-First Century (2014)
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Botha, M. (2014). Precarious Present, Fragile Futures: Literature and Uncertainty in the Early Twenty-First Century. English Academy Review, 31(2), 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1080/10131752.2014.965411

Why minimalism matters: radical quantity and the representation of immanence (2014)
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Botha, M. (2015). Why minimalism matters: radical quantity and the representation of immanence. Textual Practice, 29(4), 745-772. https://doi.org/10.1080/0950236x.2014.969300

Quantity underpins contemporary existence. This point is convincingly argued by Badiou and a host of thinkers writing in his wake. The present piece proposes that the minimalist aesthetic offers us remarkable insight into this quantitative ontology,... Read More about Why minimalism matters: radical quantity and the representation of immanence.

Social tipping points and Earth systems dynamics (2014)
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Bentley, R., Maddison, E., Ranner, P., Bissell, J., Caiado, C., Bhatanacharoen, P., …Garnett, P. (2014). Social tipping points and Earth systems dynamics. Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2, Article 35. https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2014.00035

Recently, Early Warning Signals (EWS) have been developed to predict tipping points in Earth Systems. This discussion highlights the potential to apply EWS to human social and economic systems, which may also undergo similar critical transitions. Soc... Read More about Social tipping points and Earth systems dynamics.

Circling the Void: Derrida's Style of Counting (2014)
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Botha, M. (2014). Circling the Void: Derrida's Style of Counting. Parallax, 20(1), 67-81. https://doi.org/10.1080/13534645.2014.865323

Giorgio Agamben,State of Exception, translated by Kevin Attell (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2005), 95 pp. (2009)
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Botha, M. (2009). Giorgio Agamben,State of Exception, translated by Kevin Attell (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2005), 95 pp. Oxford Literary Review, 31(2), 255-259. https://doi.org/10.3366/e0305149809000546

The Futures of Silence (2008)
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Botha, M., & Sim, S. (2008). The Futures of Silence

The Right to Theory as a Right to Truth: Resisting Resistance and Para-Ontology (2008)
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Botha, M. (2008). The Right to Theory as a Right to Truth: Resisting Resistance and Para-Ontology

How To Lose Your Voice Well (2007)
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Botha, M. (2007). How To Lose Your Voice Well. Postmodern Culture, 17(2), https://doi.org/10.1353/pmc.2007.0016