The Politics of COVID-19, Readings #17
The most important contributions on the political, economic, and social effects of the unfolding crisis.
Housekeeping
The searchable archive of the 2300 items we have featured in the past two weeks is here.
The unabridged version of Part 17 of the Reading List is here.
A list of the podcasts that we have featured is also available.
Tech
Palantir in Talks With Germany, France for Virus-Fighting Tool
Helene Fouquet, Albertina Torsoli | Bloomberg
Some Silicon Valley Companies Are Booming as COVID-19 Rages
Leonardo Castañeda | Government Technology
Come scongiurare l’uso privato dei Big Data nel controllo sanitario [Italian]
Teresa Numerica | il manifesto
Economic Policy
Why We Need Economic Planning
Leigh Phillips, Michal Rozworski | Tribune Magazine
Will the coronavirus crisis rehabilitate the banks?
David Crow et al. | Financial Times
Public Health
With record-setting speed, vaccinemakers take their first shots at the new coronavirus
Jon Cohen | Science
The Race To Make Ventilators [Podcast]
Kenny Malone, Karen Duffin | Planet Money
Fighting for Public Health
Michael Bronski | Boston Review
Class & Labour
Covid-19 Shows America’s Class Divide Is Untenable
Shuja Haider | The Nation
The future of work in the post-Covid-19 digital era
Maria Mexi | Social Europe
Tutela del lavoro e emergenza da COVID-19. Lo smart working ai tempi del coronavirus [Italian]
Rossella Cappetta, Maurizio Del Conte | Treccani
Academic
Ensuring global access to COVID-19 vaccines [Academic]
Gavin Yamey et al. | The Lancet
Everyday Life and Everyday Communication in Coronavirus Capitalism
Christian Fuchs | TripleC
Dis-ease Surveillance: How Might Surveillance Studies Address COVID-19?
Martin French, Torin Monahan | Surveillance & Society
Capitalism
COVID-19: How the UK’s economic model contributes toward a mismanagement of the crisis
Carolina Alves, Farwa Sial | Progressive Economy Forum
Pulverized: Capitalism, Africa and Covid-19
Leo Zeilig, Hannah Cross | Review of African Political Economy
From Austerity to Necropolitics in Pandemic Times, European Style
Simone Tulumello | Progress in Political Economy
Density, neoliberalism, and COVID
Calvin Welch | 48hills
Future
Nessuno resti indietro. Iniziamo a costruire un “dopo” più giusto [Italian]
Fabrizio Barca | MicroMega
Ecossocialismo, uma ideia cujo tempo chegou [Portuguese]
João Camargo | Público
Après l’épidémie, les Français rêvent d’un autre monde [French]
Jonathan Bouchet-Petersen | Libération
International
The Pandemic in Gaza [Podcast]
Walid Mahmoud | Parallax Views
Norte y sur de Europa: dos visiones de la crisis [Spanish]
Ignacio Jurado | El Diario
Kerala is a model state in the Covid-19 fight
Subin Dennis, Vijay Prashad | New Frame
La Cina ci obbliga ad una scelta europea forte e unitaria, intervista a Filippo Mignini [Italian]
Giacomo Giossi | cheFare
Germany Gets It
Ian P. Beacock | The New Republic
Social Toll
Il dolore invisibile dei medici in corsia contro il coronavirus [Italian]
Annalisa Camilli | Internazionale
Sex work, Covid-19 and the UK lockdown
Paige Murphy, Tayler Hackett | Verso Books
The Problem With a Coronavirus Rent Strike
Kriston Capps | CityLab
Democracy
The COVID-19 Pandemic and the Limits of International Environmental Law
Leslie-Anne Duvic-Paoli | OpinioJuris
Coronavirus and the Dawn of Post-Democratic Europe
Paul Hockenos | Foreign Policy
Coronavirus embarrassed Trump and Bolsonaro. But the global right will fight back
Paolo Gerbaudo | The Guardian
Context
Sul Covid-19: intervista a Gianfranco Pancino [Italian]
Giorgio Griziotti | Effimera
Illness & Crisis, from Medieval Plague Tracts to Covid-19
Spencer Strub | The New York Review of Books
Wirtschaftliche Folgen: Die Zahlen der Krise [German]
Sören Götz et al. | Die Zeit
Anthropocene
As the Nation Worries About Coronavirus, the Trump Administration Is Rolling Back Environmental Rules
Rebecca Leber | Mother Jones
Coronavirus and climate activism: five common lessons
Nadia Colburn | openDemocracy
Public Sphere
Understanding the Coronavirus Pandemic with Foucault?
Philipp Sarasin | Foucault Blog
Warum die neue Langsamkeit nicht entspannt [German]
Hartmut Rosa, Dieter Kassel | Deutschlandfunk Kultur
The Coronavirus Deniers and Their War on Expertise
Nancy LeTourneau | Washington Monthly
“New times”. How do we experience time in a global epidemic?
Jan Grzymski | Discover Society