The Vital Systems Security collaboration examines how, today, security is being constituted as an object of knowledge, intervention, and political reflection. It proposes that the security of vital systems such as energy, transportation, communication and health is one norm in relationship to which security is being reproblematized. A central goal of the collaboration is to examine these issues through collective, conceptually driven inquiry that addresses rapidly developing contemporary problems.
The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology has released its assessment of the coming swine flu resurgence and the US Government’s preparedness efforts. Press release here and full report here.
Hopefully some of our resident second order observers of pandemic preparedness can do some parsing for us…
