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 New York Sun has an article today about counter-proliferation efforts by NYPD in New York. Of interest is a new attention to chlorine tanks following the increasingly widespread use of chlorine in attacks in Iraq.
