The Politics of COVID-19, Readings #23
The most important contributions on the political, economic, and social effects of the unfolding crisis.
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Future
Will COVID-19 Remake the World?
Dani Rodrik | Project Syndicate
18 Lessons of Quarantine Urbanism
Benjamin H. Bratton | Strelka Mag
Why the coronavirus crisis will force the UK to adopt a transformed economic model
James Meadway | New Statesman
Public Health
Why the Coronavirus Test Gives So Many False Negatives
Eleanor Cummins | Slate
Cancer Surgeries and Organ Transplants Are Being Put Off for Coronavirus. Can They Wait?
Joanne Lipman | ProPublica
Misinformation Hampered Ebola Response. The Same Thing Could Happen With Coronavirus.
Nick Turse | The Intercept
Economic Policy
On the economic policies we need [Podcast]
James K. Galbraith, Aaron Benanav | Jacobin Radio
Deficit Lessons for the Pandemic From the 2008 Crisis
Joseph E. Stiglitz | The American Prospect
Économie ou société. Généalogie xénophobe d’une alternative néolibérale [French]
Eric Fassin | Mediapart
Academic
Food (in)security in Brazil in the context of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic
Tatiana Coura Oliveira et al. | Cadernos de Saúde Pública
Pand-Veillance: The Catalyst Effect of Covid-19 on Surveillance Practices
Arthur PB Laudrain | University of Oxford
Covid-19 Message from Milan: Be Ahead of the Curve. You Cannot Wait
Pedro Berjano, Edward Prewitt | New England Journal of Medicine
Democracy
The Tragic Transparency of the Virus
Boaventura de Sousa Santos | Critical Legal Thinking
Unlimited Power for an Indefinite Period
Jeffrey C. Isaac | Public Seminar
Coronavirus and the Future of Surveillance
Nicholas Wright | Foreign Affairs
Capitalism
Coronavirus: A Theory of Incompetence
Yves Smith | Naked Capitalism
Vols, arnaques, trafics: ces escrocs qui profitent du coronavirus [French]
Pierre Demoux, Yann Duvert | Les Echos
Pánico Global Y Horizonte Aleatorio [Spanish]
Álvaro García Linera
Context
Thinking Corona measures with Foucault [PDF]
Matthew Hannah et al. | University of Bayreuth
The holiday of exchange value
Will Davies | Political Econony Research Center
Epidemics in Western Society Since 1600 [26-lecture course; video]
Frank Snowden | Yale University
Coronashock Capitalism: The Unintended Consequences of Radical Biopolitics
Stefan Ecks | Medical Anthropology Quarterly
Public Sphere
Social Distancing
Giorgio Agamben | Autonomies
Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud: Eugenics and the ‘Aging Population’ in Conservative Pandemic Governance
Lisa Tilley | Discover Society
Darle la vuelta al shock [Spanish]
Olga Rodríguez | El Diario
Jürgen Habermas: „So viel Wissen über unser Nichtwissen gab es noch nie“ [German]
Markus Schwering | Frankfurter Rundschau
Como cuidar de si e dos outros em tempos de coronavírus [Portuguese]
Leonardo Boff
Social Toll
Brazil’s prisons: Covid-19 massacre imminent
Fabio Mallart et al. | Latin America Bureau
Mafia plots post-coronavirus pounce
Hannah Roberts | Politico Europe
Tech
The Valley and the Virus
Deepti Bharthur | Bot Populi
Inside the Global Race to Fight COVID-19 Using the World's Fastest Supercomputers
Dario Gil | Scientific American
L'esproprio dei dati e la rivoluzione contro le pandemie [Italian]
Michele Mezza | il manifesto
Advertencias sobre la Inteligencia Artificial en la lucha contra la COVID-19 [Spanish]
Patricia Simón | La Marea
International
Coronavirus Is Killing Lopez Obrador’s Big Plans for Mexico
Shannon K O'Neil | Bloomberg
Only internationalism can beat Covid-19
Vanessa Baird | The New Internationalist
Safatle: "Bolsonaro se acha capaz de esconder os corpos" [Portuguese]
Julia Dolce | Agência Pública
Le hirak, l’élite et les gens ordinaires [French]
Le Comptoir
L'influenza della Covid-19 sull'economia cinese [Italian]
My Ding Hua | Il Caffè Geopolitico
Anthropocene
Coronavirus Has Transformed the Climate Movement Into Something New
Mike Pearl | VICE
Coronavirus: les écologistes craignent, pour après, le retour en force du monde d’avant [French]
Sophie de Ravinel | Le Figaro
Class & Labour
“Essential” immigrant farmworkers struggle to feed themselves during Coronavirus
Danica Jorden | openDemocracy
La causa assente: tempo e lavoro all’epoca del coronavirus» [Italian]
Fabio Vighi | MicroMega
Mitarbeiter-Tracking: Überwachung im Home-Office [German]
Michael Moorstedt | Süddeutsche Zeitung