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COLLABORATORY: VITAL SYSTEMS SECURITY

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.

Category Archives: insurance

Governing the Future: The Paradigm of Prudence in Political Technologies of Risk Management

Posted on June 24, 2008 by Carlo Caduff

Here is a new and interesting article that engages some of the VSS work: Increasingly, governmental responses to incalculable, but high-consequence, threats to life and security are framed by what has been described as the `precautionary principle’ (Ewald), `preparedness’ (Collier, … Continue reading →

Posted in insurance, preparedness, risk, security frameworks, vital systems | Leave a comment

Housing and the Labor Markets: Management of the Interfaces of Economic Subsystems

Posted on April 3, 2008 by Onur Ozgode
Posted in Uncategorized, insurance, vital systems | 4 Comments

Catastrophic insurance… again

Posted on August 26, 2007 by Dale A. Rose
Posted in floods and hurricanes, insurance | Leave a comment

Kunreuther on Risk, Catastrophe, and Calculative Choice

Posted on August 25, 2007 by scollier
Posted in floods and hurricanes, insurance, risk | 1 Comment

Climate Change Futures

Posted on July 4, 2007 by Carlo Caduff
Posted in biopolitics, bioscience, floods and hurricanes, food safety, insurance, preparedness, risk, security frameworks | 5 Comments

Spring Floods, Risk, and Insurance

Posted on May 15, 2007 by scollier
Posted in floods and hurricanes, insurance, risk | 2 Comments
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