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.

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Imaginative Enactment and the History of the Political Exercise

Posted on November 9, 2007 by alakoff

In our work on the genealogy of vital systems security, Stephen and I have noted the importance of â€œimaginative enactmentâ€ as a form of VSS knowledge-production. Among other things, imaginative enactment is a method for determining infrastructural vulnerabilities in the … Continue reading →

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COLLABORATORY: VITAL SYSTEMS SECURITY

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