Archive for December, 2006

Biopolitics of Security Network

By: Stephen Collier
Posted in biopolitics, bioscience on December 31st, 2006

From Andy’s trip to Europe, another promising set of connections in the Biopolitics of Security Network based out of Lancaster University. Comrades both conceptually (Foucault’s population security is one key point of reference) and in terms of the network form. Also some similar attempts to draw connections between the biosciences, biopolitics, and new assemblages of security. To add to our list of fellow travellers.

System Vulnerability in Iraq

By: Stephen Collier
Posted in infrastructure on December 22nd, 2006

An article in today’s New York Times reports on attacks on Iraqi electricity infrastructure. As Stephen Flynn has said, they are getting a lot of practice attacking vital systms.