The Politics of COVID-19, Readings #20
The most important contributions on the political, economic, and social effects of the unfolding crisis.
Housekeeping
The searchable archive of the 3200 items we have featured so far is here.
The unabridged version of Part 20 of the Reading List is here.
A list of the podcasts that we have featured is also available
Video highlights from today are at the bottom of this email.
Tech
Make Europe capital of data sovereignty
Andrew Wood | DiEM25
Tech firms, others gain waiver to share patient data, raising privacy fears
Charles Levinson | Protocol
Delivery apps have transformed urban life in China
The Economist
Pandemic is an important moment to practise design justice says Sasha Costanza-Chock
Rima Sabina Aouf | Dezeen
Wie Länder mit Smartphone-Daten das Coronavirus eindämmen wollen [German]
Judith Kormann, Jenni Thier | NZZ
Social Toll
Early Data Shows African Americans Have Contracted and Died of Coronavirus at an Alarming Rate
Akilah Johnson, Talia Buford | ProPublica
For Homeless People, Covid-19 Is Horror on Top of Horror
Emma Grey Ellis | WIRED
The Myth of Black Immunity: Racialized Disease during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Chelsey Carter, Ezelle Sanford III | AAIHS
COVID-19 Is Likely to Lead to an Increase in Suicides
Adriana Panayi | Scientific American
Economic Policy
Crisis & Recovery
Aaron Benanav | Phenomenal World
Wichtigste Notenbank der Welt: Der globale Hunger nach Dollar [German]
Gerald Braunberger | FAZ
Dodd-Frank didn’t build stress testing for coronavirus
Graham Steele | American Banker
Public Health
The Countries That Are Succeeding at Flattening the Curve
Audrey Wilson | Foreign Policy
Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary Things: Eldercare in Wuhan under COVID-19
Zhe Yan | Somatosphere
America’s emergency medical stockpile is almost empty. Nobody knows what happens next.
Adam Clark Estes | Vox
Vaccine designers take first shots at COVID-19
Jon Cohen | Science
Coronavirus : « La Suède va perdre environ 460 000 années de vie » [French]
Anne-Françoise Hivert | Le Monde
International
"Show me your ID": Tunisia deploys 'robocop' to enforce coronavirus lockdown
Agence France Presse | The Guardian
Slovak army deployed to quarantine Roma settlements
Lucia Virostkova | EUobserver
Il coronavirus può diventare un alleato di Putin [Italian]
Clementina Carta | Limes
La novela de Chile: de la revolución al aislamiento distópico [Spanish]
Marcelo Cardenas A. | NODAL
Future
Piccolo Manifesto in tempi di pandemia [Italian]
Miguel Benasayag | Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli
Jared Diamond: “O próximo vírus pode causar mais danos” [Portuguese]
Pedro Rios | Público
L’année du Rat. Conséquences stratégiques de la crise du coronavirus [French]
Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique
Capitalism
Debt Moratoria in the Global South in the Age of Coronavirus
Christina C. Laskaridis | Developing Economics
Slumlord Capitalism v. Global Pandemic : LPE on Covid
John Whitlow | Law and Political Economy
How COVID-19 Is Transforming Manufacturing
Dalia Marin | Project Syndicate
Democracy
Surveillance : «L’espace public quasi militarisé devient un laboratoire sécuritaire» [French]
Olivier Tesquet | Libération
In Praise of Bureaucracy
Jeffrey Kopstein | Public Seminar
«Abbiamo bisogno di una costituzione dell’emergenza» [Italian]
Francesco Maselli | Linkiesta
The virus in the body politic: We have lost our ability to cherish each other
Ai Weiwei | The Globe and Mail
Psicopolítica: a estratégia bolsonarista em tempos de corona [Portuguese]
Alberto Lopes da Rosa | Justificando
Context
Il virus è il messaggio della società automatica [Italian]
Nello Barile | Doppiozero
Biopolitics in the Time of Coronavirus
Daniele Lorenzini | Critical Inquiry
The pandemic is a portal
Arundhati Roy | Financial Times
Surviving This Plague [Podcast]
Amy Kapczynski, Gregg Gonsalves | Jacobin Radio
Anthropocene
Coronavírus: lições anti-negacionistas e o futuro do planeta [Portuguese]
Marcelo de Troia, Wagner Quintilio | SciELO em Perspectiva
Coronavirus and degrowth
Anitra Nelson, Vincent Liegey | The Ecologist
Academic
Viral modernity? epidemics, infodemics, and the ‘bioinformational’ paradigm
Michael A Peters et al. | Educational Philosophy and Theory
COVID and the convergence of three crises in Europe
Kayvan Bozorgmehr et al. | The Lancet: Public Health
Class & Labour
Pandemia e classes sociais [Portuguese]
Fernando Haddad | Folha De S. Paulo
Austria’s ‘Unsozial’ Capitalists in a Time of Crisis
Kevin Potter | MR Online
The need for class, race and gender-sensitive policies to fight the COVID-19 crisis
Luiza Nassif-Pires | Union for Radical Political Economics
Public Sphere
Poema in bianco e nero. La Milano metafisica di Marco Introini [Italian]
Rossana Vinci | ArchiPortale
What’s Real After COVID-19?
Rowan Fortune | Medium
Vivencia y experiencia en la crisis del coronavirus [Spanish]
Amador Fernández-Savater | El Diario
Between fast science and fake news: Preprint servers are political
Maximilian Heimstädt | LSE
Judith Butler: “Debería haber otras formas de refugio que no dependan de una falsa idea del hogar” [Spanish]
Constanza Michelson | La Tercera
COVID-19: новые инициативы архитекторов и дизайнеров [Russian]
Интерьер+Дизайн
La pandemia y el regreso a la sociedad disciplinaria [Spanish]
Byung-Chul Han | La Vanguardia
Cuando La Naturaleza Jaquea - La Orgullosa Modernidad [Spanish]
Enrique Dussel | Viaje De Retorno
South American galleries face steep challenges as the region's biggest fairs shutter due to the spread of coronavirus
Kerry Doran | The Art Newspaper
Resources
COVID-19 and Gender Resources
Gender and COVID-19 Working Group
COVID-19 Economic Research
Cambridge-INET
Pandemics in Context
Environment & Society Portal
Media
The geopolitical battle for the COVID-19 narrative
John Barry et al. | Al Jazeera English
China and Pandemics: A historically-informed discussion
Timothy Brook | Salt Spring Forum
Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update: Epidemics in History
Frank Snowden | JAMA Network