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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.

On this site you can read more about the VSS collaboration, find out about current projects, or go to our blog.

What’s New:

  • 5/2008: Collier’s “Enacting Catastrophe” is out in Economy and Society.
  • 4/2008: Biosecurity Interventions, edited by Lakoff and Collier, and with contributions by, among others, Caduff, Fearnley, Rabinow, and Rose, has gone into production at Columbia University Press, and should be out in July.
  • 1/2008: Working papers by Ozgode and Lindseth on the Office of Emergency Preparedness are now available on the OEP project page.
  • 1/2008: Collier and Lakoff’s article “Distributed Preparedness” is out in Environment and Planning D.
  • 1/2008: Lakoff’s article “The Generic Biothreat” has been accepted in Cultural Anthropology.

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