Marc Botha is Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature and Theory in the Department of English Studies at Durham University, UK. He is the author of Persistence and Transfiguration: A Theory of Minimalism (Bloomsbury, 2017).

Patricia Waugh is Professor of English and Co-Director of the Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience at Durham University, UK.

A detailed investigation of transition and change in critical theory and cultural practice

Acknowledgements
INTRODUCTION
Change: Patricia Waugh and Marc Botha (University of Durham, UK)

PART ONE: THINKING THE CONDITIONS FOR CHANGE
Climate: Timothy Clark (University of Durham, UK)
Fragility: Marc Botha (University of Durham, UK)
Memory: Enzo Traverso (Cornell University, USA)
Remainder: Andrew Gibson (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)
Affect: Ankhi Mukherjee (Oxford University, UK)

PART TWO: ORGANZING CHANGE
Institution: Simon Critchley (The New School, USA)
Movement: Esther Leslie (Birkbeck, University of London, UK)
Community: Mick Smith (Queen's University, Canada)
Continuity: Lev Manovich (The City University of New York, USA)
Dissemination: Jon Adams (London School of Economics, UK)

PART THREE: BOUNDARIES AND CROSSINGS
Threshold: Matthew Calarco (California State University, Fullerton, USA)
Periphery: Paulina Aroch Fugellie (Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico)
Exception: Justin Clemens (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Migration: Mieke Bal (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Privacy: Alexander Garcia Duttmann (University of the Arts, Berlin, Germany)

PART FOUR: RUPTURE AND DISRUPTIONS
Catastrophe: Jean-Michel Rabate (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
Event: Mark Currie (Queen Mary University of London, UK)
Revolution: Bruno Bosteels (Cornell University. USA)
Fragmentation: Maebh Long (The University of the South Pacific, Fiji)
Interference: Emily Apter (New York University, USA)

PART FIVE: ASSEMBLAGES AND REALIGNMENTS
Turns: Christopher Norris (Cardiff University, UK)
Hybrid: Roger Luckhurst (Birkbeck, University of London, UK)
Entanglement: Felicity Callard (University of Durham, UK) and Des Fitzgerald (King's College London, UK)
Emergence: Patricia Waugh (University of Durham, UK)
Network: Graham Harman ( SCI-Arc, Los Angeles, USA)

PART SIX: CHANGING THE FUTURE
Hospitality: Derek Attridge (University of York, UK)
Fidelity: Creston Davis (Global Center for Advanced Studies, USA) and Alain Badiou
Resilience: Sarah Atkinson (University of Durham, UK)
Trust: Alphonso Lingis (Penn State University, USA)
Irreversibility: Claire Colebrook (Penn State University, USA)

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