The Politics of COVID-19, Readings #10
The most important contributions on the political, economic, and social effects of the unfolding crisis.
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Anthropocene
Coronavirus Holds Key Lessons on How to Fight Climate Change
Beth Gardiner | Yale Environment 360
Bruno Latour: «La crise sanitaire incite à se préparer à la mutation climatique» [French]
Bruno Latour | Le Monde
Capitalism
Noam Chomsky: "La pandemia es otro caso de la falla masiva del mercado, como el calentamiento global" [Spanish]
Roberto Manríquez | El mostrador
The Rise of the Party of Death
Peter Frase | Jacobin
Democracy
On the Epidemic Situation
Alain Badiou | Verso
Communovirus [French]
Jean-Luc Nancy | Libération
Coronavirus: metafore di guerra e confusione di concetti [Italian]
Fabrizio Battistelli | MicroMega
Context
What’s Wrong With “the Chinese Virus”?
Hugh Gusterson | Sapiens
Does 1918 Even Apply Here? [Podcast]
David S. Jones | What Next
El orden mundial previo al virus era letal [Spanish]
Markus Gabriel | El País
Class & Labour
Labor Rights in the Time of Pandemic: Hungary’s return to the 19th Century in response to Covid 19
Laszlo Bruszt | Public Seminar
«Cette crise rend visibles ceux qui sont d’ordinaire invisibles» [French]
Laure Bretton | Libération
Economic Policy
Step One in Fighting the COVID-19 Economic Crisis
Arindrajit Dube | Boston Review
Faut-il nationaliser les grandes entreprises ? [French]
Gilles Raveaud | Alternatives Economiques
Tech
Uber drivers are being forced to choose between risking Covid-19 or starvation
Veena Dubal, Meredith Whittaker | The Guardian
Coronavirus could delay tech antitrust action
Andrea Peterson | Protocol
Public Sphere
Covid-19 leaves creative industry vulnerable
Lloyd Gedye | New Frame
COVID-19 is spawning a global press-freedom crackdown
Joel Simon | Columbia Journalism Review
Academic
Responding to COVID-19 Through Socialist(ic) Measures: A Preliminary Review
David Michael San Juan | De La Salle University
Early in the epidemic: impact of preprints on global discourse about COVID-19 transmissibility
Maimuna S Majumder, Kenneth D Mandl | The Lancet
Public Health
Why is there Need for Long-Term Investment in the Uganda Virus Research Institute, The Home of Zika?
Julia Ross Cummiskey, Louis Mukwaya | Somatosphere
Doctors Are Hoarding Unproven Coronavirus Medicine by Writing Prescriptions for Themselves and Their Families
Topher Sanders et al. | ProPublica
Future
How the Pandemic Will End
Ed Yong | The Atlantic
International
L’Afrique face au risque d’une catastrophe [French]
Le Monde | LireLactu
Traficantes do cartel de Sinaloa explicam por que o coronavírus é ruim pros negócios [Portuguese]
Keegan Hamilton | VICE
Corona trifft Antigone [German]
Milo Rau | taz
Arundhati Roy: «Si le coronavirus frappe l’Inde, ce sera un cataclysme» [French]
Sarah Halifa-Legrand | L'Obs
Social Toll
Coronavirus Leaves Foster Children With Nowhere to Go
Eli Hager | The Marshall Project
The Pandemic Economy in American Prisons
Nick Martin | The New Republic
Coronavirus rent crisis: ‘Millions of Americans will have trouble paying rent this month’
Patrick Sisson | Curbed