Toward a Critical Poetics of Securitization: A response to Anker, Castronovo, Harkins, Masterson, and Williams.

A response is offered to several articles in the issue on the topic of the poetics of U.S. national securitization, or the increase of national security, during the 21st century. Topics, including African American bodies, the politics of catastrophe, liberal concepts of private property rights, neoliberalism and mass surveillance in the U.S., are discussed.