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.
This does not meet our usual standards of seriousness but was too funny to pass up. The Onion on a Jell-O attack by conceptual terrorists on the Sears Tower. A great line: “The DHS said it has taken additional measures to secure the Brooklyn Bridge following today’s Jell-O attack, as initial evidence suggests that the New York landmark may or may not be the site of “found terrorism.”
