COVID-19 Special Edition #8

Our highlights from the hundreds of excellent pieces our system uncovered during the week.

"A retreat from hyper-globalization is not necessarily bad if we are able to construct a more sensible globalization... A lecture placing the problems of globalization in a historic and theoretical context as well as discussing the normative logic of global regimes and what kind of globalization we would want."

"An episode about the COVID19 crisis, how capitalism is a system in constant crisis and how the coronavirus will be used to further consolidate wealth in society, how we don’t want to return to what is considered normal, how communities have come together to face this crisis and how we need community to come together after COVID to address the widespread job losses and social despair."

"Big tech, nationalist politics, and the billionaire class have propelled a novel political economy. What impact will the virus have on this new status quo?"

"COVID-19 brings to light the many, intertwining failures of our current housing and carceral systems just as it heightens the urgency to find new solutions to justly house our returning residents. The virus forces us to face the reality that — with 2.3 million residents (nearly twice that of public housing)—the carceral system is the ‘other’ public housing in the US today."

"Unless Congress and regulators act, private equity will shed its nonperforming assets and feast on new ones. J. Crew is the latest example."

"En la sociedad española hay un grupo especial que impone algo así como un miedo ‘dominante’, un miedo más legítimo que los otros, el miedo de los ‘instalados’, un colectivo que ha disfrutado de una biografía ‘más próspera’."

"Ein Virus kann nicht diskriminieren, es kennt weder Hautfarbe noch Kontostand? Corona kann jeden treffen? Je länger die Krise andauert, umso mehr zeigt sich, dass nicht alle Menschen gleichermaßen betroffen sind."

"Les pandémies passées laissent entrevoir l’avenir. Bien qu’il n’y ait pas d’exemple historique unique à suivre, l’humanité a connu plusieurs grandes épidémies au cours du siècle dernier, et toutes ont un jour pris fin. Les moyens qui ont été mis en œuvre pour y mettre un terme sont un guide dans le monde actuel où l’on cherche à préserver la santé du plus grand nombre et à retrouver une certaine normalité. "

"Che cosa è cura? Nel tempo, molti documenti e libri femministi hanno trattato l’argomento. Il perché non è difficile da comprendere. La cura è al centro di una serie di analisi che osservano da vicino un intricato e contraddittorio groviglio di compiti, ruoli, obblighi ma anche di poteri, desideri e sentimenti, legami incarnati, al centro dei quali ci sono le donne. "

"O que sabemos – e o que ainda é mistério – sobre a gripe espanhola, o comportamento social em catástrofes e o papel do acaso na história."

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