The Politics of COVID-19, Readings #16
The most important contributions on the political, economic, and social effects of the unfolding crisis.
Housekeeping
The searchable archive of all the 2000+ items we have featured in the past two weeks is here.
The unabridged version of Part 16 of the Reading List is here.
A list of the podcasts that we have featured is also available.
Context
COVID and Community
Steven Shapin | Los Angeles Review of Books
David Graeber: "Werden wir danach so tun, als sei alles nur ein Traum gewesen?" [German]
Lars Weisbrod | Die Zeit
How Trump Is Going to Get Away With a Pandemic
Sonia Shah | The Nation
Laissez-Faire, Laissez Mourir
Jacob Assa | Developing Economics
Tech
Amazon auditions to be ‘the new Red Cross’ in Covid-19 crisis
Dave Lee, Patricia Nilsson | Financial Times
Google Wants Your Data in Exchange for a Coronavirus Test
Faine Greenwood | Foreign Policy
Coronavirus, il «modello Albania»: una app per autorizzare le uscite dei cittadini [Italian]
Leonard Berberi | Corriere della Sera
Digitale Grundrechte nach Corona: Warum wir gerade jetzt eine Debatte über Datenschutz brauchen [German]
Rainer Mühlhoff | Netzpolitik
Public Sphere
Pandemia democratizou poder de matar, diz autor da teoria da 'necropolítica' [Portuguese]
Achille Mbembe | Folha De S. Paulo
El largo viaje hacia la noche [Spanish]
Pedro Almodóvar | El Diario
In a Pandemic, How Do You Make the Case for an Art Emergency?
Corinne Segal | Literary Hub
Amitav Ghosh: «E adesso in India sprechiamo come qui da voi» [Italian]
Edoardo Vigna | Corriere della Sera
Public Health
When Doctors Die
Yasmin Gunaratnam | Discover Society
Syndemics of COVID-19 and “pre-existing conditions”
Clare Herrick | Somatosphere
Post-Normal Pandemics: Why Covid-19 Requires a New Approach to Science
David Waltner-Toews et al. | STEPS Centre
Taxpayers Paid Millions to Design a Low-Cost Ventilator for a Pandemic. Instead, the Company Is Selling Versions of It Overseas.
Patricia Callahan | ProPublica
Class & Labour
Covid-19 Hits the Dual Economy: Incomes Destroyed at the Bottom, Profits Supported at the Top
Lance Taylor | Public Seminar
Le télétravail comme résilience néolibérale [French]
Jonathan Binet | Le Droit
When Gig Workers Are Emergency Responders [Podcast]
Michelle Chen | Belabored Podcast
Academic
Developing Covid-19 Vaccines at Pandemic Speed
Nicole Lurie et al. | New England Journal of Medicine
International
Coronavirus on the border: Why Mexico has so few cases compared with the U.S.
Mary Beth Sheridan | The Washington Post
They are leading us to catastrophe': Sweden's coronavirus stoicism begins to jar
Derek Robertson | The Guardian
Beware of Trump Using the Coronavirus as a Cover for War With Iran
Mehdi Hasan | The Intercept
D’Alger à Istanbul, face au coronavirus, le déni et la censure [French]
Marie Jégo et al. | Le Monde
Economic Policy
The U.S. Economy Is Uniquely Vulnerable to the Coronavirus
Mark Blyth | Foreign Affairs
Curare l’italia di oggi, guardare all’italia di doman: Proposta per rendere universale la protezione sociale contro la crisi [Italian]
Forum Disuguaglianze e Diversità
The Anatomy of the $2 Trillion COVID-19 Stimulus Bill
Nick Routley | Visual Capitalist
Social Toll
La mafia se prepara para expandirse con la pobreza que deja la pandemia [Spanish]
Anna Buj | La Vanguardia
The limits of protection, prevention and care
Bilgin Ayata | Eurozine
Corona: Berliner Clubs in Not: „Das war nie ein tolles Businesskonzept“ [German]
Nicholas Potter | taz
Anthropocene
Zoonoses: que nous apprend le Covid-19 sur l'état de la biodiversité? [French]
Philippe Grandcolas, Jean-Lou Justine | Socialter
Der Green Deal der EU wird durch die Coronakrise gefährdet [German]
Eva Fischer | Handelsblatt
Capitalism
L’après ne devra pas être un retour à la «normale» [French]
Bruno Amable | Libération
“The Coronavirus pandemic is part of a multidimensional crisis of capitalism”
Eric Toussaint | CADTM
Democracy
Surveillance numérique contre le coronavirus: Jacques Toubon s’inquiète de possibles dérives [French]
L'Obs | Le Monde
Covid-19 is our best chance to change universities for good
Steven Jones | The Guardian