But even Graham often used narrative as a jumping off point for her work; it was Merce Cunningham who took abstraction to another level, and he did so by focusing on shape instead of vulnerability.
"Let us focus instead on vulnerabilities, and one of them is the visa waiver program".
Instead of targeting vulnerabilities of the parasite, which can evolve to avoid attack, Egan's team wants to understand how host factors influence the parasite's biology.
The concept behind this shift in terminology is that the phrase "natural disasters" conveys the perception that if disasters are natural there is little that can be done, except by preparing to respond to them, instead of reducing vulnerability and building resilience, which need to be the focus of risk reduction and management policies.
Now, they contradict our rewriting of what it means to be human, which is to be emotionally literate, to reveal instead of conceal our vulnerabilities.
Instead of predicting software vulnerabilities, we focus on building a metric that captures the effectiveness of IDS signatures.
Instead of looking for vulnerabilities in the company's networks or trying to hack the card readers at the building's entrances, he and another hacker shimmied a wet washcloth on a hanger through a thin gap in one of its exits.
And instead of seeing these vulnerabilities as opportunities for crime I now had a whole color palette to choose from," said Fox. "For example, when the world started going crazy over drones as recreational toys I saw that they could be used as weapons or for crime, and this insight into the criminal mind inspired a company that defends the country from drones".
Instead of releasing the vulnerability into the wild, Miller and Valasek coordinated with the vendor once they found the exploit, and then waited to make their findings public until a fix was available.
But instead of embracing my vulnerability and asking for help, I held it all in (as much as I could).
