The Politics of COVID-19, Readings #26
The most important contributions on the political, economic, and social effects of the unfolding crisis.
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Public Sphere
Begin from the Beginning: Revisiting Agamben (Critique in times of Corona)
Avantika Tewari | Critical Legal Thinking
One Hundred Years of Crisis
Yuk Hui | e-flux
Designing and Consuming Post-Pandemic Futures
Walid Hedidar | The Metric
On the ethics of documenting a pandemic
Hannah Abel-Hirsch | British Journal of Photography
Nicolas Grimaldi. Dans la solitude d’un monde sans humains [French]
Jan Patočka | Philosophie Magazine
Tech
On Pandemics, Platform Governance and Geopolitics [Podcast]
Kate Klonick, Alina Polyakova | The Lawfare Podcast
COVID-19 and the future of open access
Samuel Moore | Samuel Moore
We Mapped How the Coronavirus Is Driving New Surveillance Programs Around the World
Dave Gershgorn | OneZero
Public support for Live Facial Recognition and implications for COVID-19 policing
Julia Yesberg et al. | LSE Impact of Social Science
The biggest data privacy holes made worse by the pandemic
Kevin McAllister | Protocol
What Google and Facebook need to do to fight disinformation
Mathew Ingram | Columbia Journalism Review
Anthropocene
The Planet Can’t Afford a Coronavirus Feud
Daniel K. Gardner | The New Republic
Climate Politics in the Time of Coronavirus [Podcast]
Daniel Aldana Cohen, Kate Aronoff | Hot & Bothered Podcast
Why pollution is plummeting in some cities — but not others
Quirin Schiermeier | Nature
Context
Coronavirus reveals what really makes the world go round, and it's not money
Eva Illouz | Haaretz
How America’s Earliest Colonists Dictate Today’s Coronavirus Response
Colin Woodard | Washington Monthly
How pandemics shape society
Alexandre White | The Hub at JHU
Thomas Porcher: ‘The coronavirus shows we are led by incompetent people’
Guillaume Le Goff | Huck Magazine
Capitalism
Capitalismo de vigilância [Portuguese]
Sergio Amadeu da Silveira | A Terra é redonda
How “Just-in-Time” Capitalism Spread COVID-19
Kim Moody | Spectre Journal
Orientations [French]
Frédéric Lordon | Le Monde diplomatique
Unruhe im Seuchengebiet [German]
Robert Misik | Robert Misik
What happens next - Interview with David McNally
Snehal Shingavi | Section44
Academic
Centring sexual and reproductive health and justice in the global COVID-19 response
Kelli Stidham Hall et al. | The Lancet
When COVID-19 meets centralized, personalized power
Yuen Yuen Ang | Nature
Democracy
Coronavirus: le gouvernement favorable au traçage numérique de la population, une partie de la majorité s’y oppose [French]
Alexandre Lemarié | Le Monde
Pandemia e panopticon [Italian]
Andrea Daniele Signorelli | Il Tascabile
The Body Politics of Covid-19
Kandida Purnell | The Disorder of Things
Economic Policy
Can Trump Avoid a Post-Coronavirus Great Depression? [Podcast]
John Cassidy | The New Yorker: Politics and More
The Deficit Is Exploding! And That’s a Good Thing.
Robert Pollin | The Nation
Future
Abilio, Karnal, Nizan — o novo mundo pós-pandemia [Portuguese]
Ernesto Yoshida et al. | Exame
Kulturwissenschaftler Joseph Vogl über die Coronakrise als Lackmustest unserer Gesellschaften [German]
Elke Buhr | Monopol
Paul Mason: “Il Coronavirus è una sfida al mondo: cambiamo tutto, o torneranno i fascisti” [Italian]
Francesco Cancellato | Fanpage
Within and beyond the pandemic. Demanding a Care Income and a feminist Green New Deal for Europe
Stefania Barca | Undisciplined Environments
International
Bertrand Badie: «Jusqu’à maintenant, les crises sanitaires touchaient essentiellement les pays du Sud» [French]
Catherine Calvet | Libération
Geopolitics and the coronavirus pandemic [Podcast]
Ben Bland | The Lowy Institute: Live Events
People power: How India is attempting to slow the coronavirus
Gayathri Vaidyanathan | Nature
Un Chernobyl en Wuhan [Spanish]
Alberto Rojas | El Mundo
Social Toll
“Somos nosotras las que ponemos el cuerpo”: clase y género en tiempos de pandemia [Spanish]
Josefina Martínez | CTXT
Assessing the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on correctional institutions
Crystal Yang, Marcella Alsan | Harvard Kennedy School
Back to where we always have been: sex/gender segregation to contain Covid-19
Sonia Corrêa | LSE Impact of Social Science
El coronavirus es la militarización de la vida social [Spanish]
Ruth Toledano | El Diario
Public Health
«Fate parlare gli esperti». Chi si deve occupare di un'epidemia? [Italian]
Roberto Salerno | Jacobin Italia
Bending the Epicurve towards Justice: Biomedical Response
Daniel Cohen | African Arguments
Coronavirus research done too fast is testing publishing safeguards, bad science is getting through
Irving Steinberg | The Conversation
Covid-19 drugs could be made for $1 per day, say academics
Donato Paolo Mancini | Financial Times
Pandemic brings mass vaccinations to a halt
Leslie Roberts | Science