Below are resources the Center for Critical Thought has put together for these unprecedented times we find ourselves in. These resources provide a theoretical framework in which to view the COVID-19 pandemic, and they have been broken down by overarching subject matter. Hyperlinks have been provided when possible. Please browse this content, and if you have a link that you think we should add, reach out to criticalthought@colorado.edu.
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How to Survive a Disaster, On Building a Paradise in Hell: Improvised, Collaborative, Cooperative, Local, By Rebecca Solnit. Literary Hub, November 15, 2016
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Mutual aid for the end of the world, By Kelly Rose Pflug-Back, September 5, 2019
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The Only Treatment for Coronavirus Is Solidarity, By Jedediah Britton-Purdy, Jacobin Mag, March 3, 2020
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Coronavirus and community activism, By Jonathan Neale, Ecologist, March 6, 2020
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Covid: The Ethical Disease, By Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, Critical Legal Thinking, March 13, 2020
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Autonomous Groups Are Mobilizing Mutual Aid Initiatives To Combat The Coronavirus - It’s Going Down, March 14, 2020
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Decolonizing Community Care in Response to Covid-19, By Jade Begay, March 13, 2020
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After the Quarantine, the Flood, By Natasha Lennard, Commune Magazine, March 14, 2020
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Surviving the Virus: An Anarchist Guide. Capitalism in Crisis—Rising Totalitarianism—Strategies of Resistance, March 18, 2020
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Coronavirus catalyzes growing wave of grassroots action despite social distancing, March 18, 2020
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Solidarity Not Charity: Mutual Aid & How to Organize in the Age of Coronavirus, Democracy Now, March 20, 2020
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What libertarians would do in response to coronavirus, The Week, March 13, 2020
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What does feminist leadership look like in a pandemic? By Leila Billing, March 21, 2020
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Coronavirus and Mutual Aid- Nowadays we are living in a common History. Void Network / Athens, March 29, 2020
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The Ecology of Disease, By Jim Robbins, July 14, 2012
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Think Exotic Animals Are to Blame for the Coronavirus? Think Again, By Sonia Shah, The Nation, February 18, 2020
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Capitalist agriculture and Covid-19: A deadly combination, interview with Rob Wallace, climate & capitalism, March 11, 2020
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'Tip of the iceberg': is our destruction of nature responsible for Covid-19?, By John Vidal, The Guardian, March 18, 2020
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How Global Agriculture Grew a Pandemic. The COVID-19 crisis was preventable—if only we’d listened to the epidemiologists sounding the alarm, By Stephanie Bastek, The American Scholar, March 13, 2020
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Destruction of habitat and loss of biodiversity are creating the perfect conditions for diseases like COVID-19 to emerge, By John Vidal, March 17, 2020
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Neel Ahuja: Bioinsecurities. Disease Interventions, Empire, and the Government of Species
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Covid-19 is nature's wake-up call to complacent civilisation, By George Monbiot. The Guardian, March 25, 2020
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Coronavirus: 'Nature is sending us a message’, says UN environment chief. By Damian Carrington. The Guardian, March 25, 2020
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Is factory farming to blame for coronavirus?, By Laura Spinney. The Guardian, March 28, 2020
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Is This A Dress Rehearsal?, By Bruno Latour, March 26, 2020
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Human impact on wildlife to blame for spread of viruses, says study. The Guardian, April 8, 2020
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New Research Links Air Pollution to Higher Coronavirus Death Rates, By Lisa Friedman, New York Times, April 7, 2020
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Cradle of the Virus: How Forests are the Source of and Solution to Emergent Pathogens - WWF report.
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The Pandemic Is Not a Natural Disaster. The coronavirus isn’t just a public-health crisis. It’s an ecological one, By Kate Brown, The New Yorker, April 13, 2020
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Coronavirus: who will be winners and losers in new world order?, By Patrick Wintour, The Guardian, 11 Apr 2020
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How Pandemics Change History, By Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, March 3, 2020
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The Distance Between Us: The Implications of Pandemic Influenza in 1918-1919, By Esyllt W. Jones, March 14, 2020
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The Coronavirus Called America’s Bluff, By Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, March 15, 2020
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The Spanish Flu of 1918 and how it changed the World, 2017, By Laura Spinney: Pale Rider
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Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present, Frank M. Snowden, Yale University Press, 2019
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Epidemics in Western Society Since 1600. Course Yale University, Frank Snowden
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Why COVID-19 is hitting Black women so hard, By Treva Lindsey
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Coronavirus isn’t transphobic. But America’s economic and health systems are, By Katelyn Burns
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"Under the Blacklight: The Intersectional Vulnerabilities that COVID Lays Bare" Part I, hosted by Kimberle Crenshaw
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"How to Beat Coronavirus Capitalism", With Naomi Klein, Astra Taylor, and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, with a musical performance by Lia Rose
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Movement Building in the Time of the Coronavirus: A Rising Majority Teach-In, Angela Davis & Naomi Klein with Rising Majority leaders Thenjiwe McHarris (Blackbird), Cindy Wiesner (Grassroots Global Justice), Maurice Mitchell (Working Families Party), and Loan Tran (Southern Vision Alliance)
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The Pandemic Imagination, By Siddhartha Deb, The New Republic, March 16, 2020
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City of Pain, By Teju Cole, April 2 2020
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How to Survive a Disaster, On Building a Paradise in Hell: Improvised, Collaborative, Cooperative, Local, By Rebecca Solnit. Literary Hub, November 15, 2016
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Mutual aid for the end of the world, By Kelly Rose Pflug-Back, September 5, 2019
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The Only Treatment for Coronavirus Is Solidarity, By Jedediah Britton-Purdy, Jacobin Mag, March 3, 2020
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Coronavirus and community activism, By Jonathan Neale, Ecologist, March 6, 2020
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Covid: The Ethical Disease, By Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, Critical Legal Thinking, March 13, 2020
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Autonomous Groups Are Mobilizing Mutual Aid Initiatives To Combat The Coronavirus - It’s Going Down, March 14, 2020
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Decolonizing Community Care in Response to Covid-19, By Jade Begay, March 13, 2020
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After the Quarantine, the Flood, By Natasha Lennard, Commune Magazine, March 14, 2020
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Surviving the Virus: An Anarchist Guide. Capitalism in Crisis—Rising Totalitarianism—Strategies of Resistance, March 18, 2020
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Coronavirus catalyzes growing wave of grassroots action despite social distancing, March 18, 2020
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Solidarity Not Charity: Mutual Aid & How to Organize in the Age of Coronavirus, Democracy Now, March 20, 2020
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What libertarians would do in response to coronavirus, The Week, March 13, 2020
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What does feminist leadership look like in a pandemic? By Leila Billing, March 21, 2020
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Coronavirus and Mutual Aid- Nowadays we are living in a common History. Void Network / Athens, March 29, 2020
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The Ecology of Disease, By Jim Robbins, July 14, 2012
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Think Exotic Animals Are to Blame for the Coronavirus? Think Again, By Sonia Shah, The Nation, February 18, 2020
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Capitalist agriculture and Covid-19: A deadly combination, interview with Rob Wallace, climate & capitalism, March 11, 2020
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'Tip of the iceberg': is our destruction of nature responsible for Covid-19?, By John Vidal, The Guardian, March 18, 2020
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How Global Agriculture Grew a Pandemic. The COVID-19 crisis was preventable—if only we’d listened to the epidemiologists sounding the alarm, By Stephanie Bastek, The American Scholar, March 13, 2020
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Destruction of habitat and loss of biodiversity are creating the perfect conditions for diseases like COVID-19 to emerge, By John Vidal, March 17, 2020
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Neel Ahuja: Bioinsecurities. Disease Interventions, Empire, and the Government of Species
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Covid-19 is nature's wake-up call to complacent civilisation, By George Monbiot. The Guardian, March 25, 2020
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Coronavirus: 'Nature is sending us a message’, says UN environment chief. By Damian Carrington. The Guardian, March 25, 2020
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Is factory farming to blame for coronavirus?, By Laura Spinney. The Guardian, March 28, 2020
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Is This A Dress Rehearsal?, By Bruno Latour, March 26, 2020
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Human impact on wildlife to blame for spread of viruses, says study. The Guardian, April 8, 2020
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New Research Links Air Pollution to Higher Coronavirus Death Rates, By Lisa Friedman, New York Times, April 7, 2020
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Cradle of the Virus: How Forests are the Source of and Solution to Emergent Pathogens - WWF report.
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The Pandemic Is Not a Natural Disaster. The coronavirus isn’t just a public-health crisis. It’s an ecological one, By Kate Brown, The New Yorker, April 13, 2020
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Coronavirus: who will be winners and losers in new world order?, By Patrick Wintour, The Guardian, 11 Apr 2020
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How Pandemics Change History, By Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, March 3, 2020
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The Distance Between Us: The Implications of Pandemic Influenza in 1918-1919, By Esyllt W. Jones, March 14, 2020
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The Coronavirus Called America’s Bluff, By Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, March 15, 2020
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The Spanish Flu of 1918 and how it changed the World, 2017, By Laura Spinney: Pale Rider
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Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present, Frank M. Snowden, Yale University Press, 2019
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Epidemics in Western Society Since 1600. Course Yale University, Frank Snowden
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Why COVID-19 is hitting Black women so hard, By Treva Lindsey
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Coronavirus isn’t transphobic. But America’s economic and health systems are, By Katelyn Burns
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"Under the Blacklight: The Intersectional Vulnerabilities that COVID Lays Bare" Part I, hosted by Kimberle Crenshaw
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"How to Beat Coronavirus Capitalism", With Naomi Klein, Astra Taylor, and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, with a musical performance by Lia Rose
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Movement Building in the Time of the Coronavirus: A Rising Majority Teach-In, Angela Davis & Naomi Klein with Rising Majority leaders Thenjiwe McHarris (Blackbird), Cindy Wiesner (Grassroots Global Justice), Maurice Mitchell (Working Families Party), and Loan Tran (Southern Vision Alliance)
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The Pandemic Imagination, By Siddhartha Deb, The New Republic, March 16, 2020
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City of Pain, By Teju Cole, April 2 2020
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Coronavirus: who will be winners and losers in new world order?, By Patrick Wintour, The Guardian, 11 Apr 2020
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How Pandemics Change History, By Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, March 3, 2020
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The Distance Between Us: The Implications of Pandemic Influenza in 1918-1919, By Esyllt W. Jones, March 14, 2020
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The Coronavirus Called America’s Bluff, By Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, March 15, 2020
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The Spanish Flu of 1918 and how it changed the World, 2017, By Laura Spinney: Pale Rider
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Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present, Frank M. Snowden, Yale University Press, 2019
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Epidemics in Western Society Since 1600. Course Yale University, Frank Snowden
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Why COVID-19 is hitting Black women so hard, By Treva Lindsey
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Coronavirus isn’t transphobic. But America’s economic and health systems are, By Katelyn Burns
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"Under the Blacklight: The Intersectional Vulnerabilities that COVID Lays Bare" Part I, hosted by Kimberle Crenshaw
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"How to Beat Coronavirus Capitalism", With Naomi Klein, Astra Taylor, and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, with a musical performance by Lia Rose
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Movement Building in the Time of the Coronavirus: A Rising Majority Teach-In, Angela Davis & Naomi Klein with Rising Majority leaders Thenjiwe McHarris (Blackbird), Cindy Wiesner (Grassroots Global Justice), Maurice Mitchell (Working Families Party), and Loan Tran (Southern Vision Alliance)
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The Pandemic Imagination, By Siddhartha Deb, The New Republic, March 16, 2020
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City of Pain, By Teju Cole, April 2 2020
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Why COVID-19 is hitting Black women so hard, By Treva Lindsey
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Coronavirus isn’t transphobic. But America’s economic and health systems are, By Katelyn Burns
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"Under the Blacklight: The Intersectional Vulnerabilities that COVID Lays Bare" Part I, hosted by Kimberle Crenshaw
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"How to Beat Coronavirus Capitalism", With Naomi Klein, Astra Taylor, and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, with a musical performance by Lia Rose
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Movement Building in the Time of the Coronavirus: A Rising Majority Teach-In, Angela Davis & Naomi Klein with Rising Majority leaders Thenjiwe McHarris (Blackbird), Cindy Wiesner (Grassroots Global Justice), Maurice Mitchell (Working Families Party), and Loan Tran (Southern Vision Alliance)
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The Pandemic Imagination, By Siddhartha Deb, The New Republic, March 16, 2020
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City of Pain, By Teju Cole, April 2 2020
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Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation, By Jonathan Lear, 2008
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The Difficulty of Reality and a revolt against Mourning, By Jonathan Lear, 2018
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The Difficulty of Reality and the Difficulty of Philosophy, By Cora Diamond, 2003
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We Can Waste Another Crisis, or We Can Transform the Economy, By Kate Aronoff, Alyssa Battistoni, Daniel Aldana Cohen, Thea Riofrancos. Jacobin, March 14, 2020
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Coronavirus Capitalism — and How to Beat It, By Naomi Klein, The Intercept, March 16, 2020 (you can find the associated video here)
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The Covid-19 crisis is a chance to do capitalism differently, By Mariana Mazzucato, The Guardian, March 18, 2020
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Capitalism Has its Limits, By Judith Butler, Verso, 19 March 2020
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Anti-Capitalist Politics in the Time of COVID-19, By David Harvey, March 19, 2020
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Yuval Noah Harari: the world after coronavirus, By Yuval Noah Harari, March 20, 2020
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The coronavirus crisis shows we need an entirely new economic system, By Paul Mason, New Statesman America, March 18, 2020
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Surviving the Virus: An Anarchist Guide, By CrimeithInc, March 18, 2020
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A degrowth perspective on the coronavirus crisis, By the degrowth.info Editorial Team, March 19, 2020
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Social movements in times of pandemic: another world is needed, By Donatella della Porta, March 23, 2020
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What the virus said? "I've come to shut down the machine whose emergency brake you couldn't find", By LundiMatin, March 21, 2020
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No return to normal: for a post-pandemic liberation, By Max Haiven, March 23, 2020
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The Normal Economy Is Never Coming Back. By Adam Tooze, Foreign Policy, April 9, 2020
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How coronavirus almost brought down the global financial system. By Adam Tooze, The Guardian, April 14, 2020.
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Who Gets Forgotten in a Pandemic. By Mike Davis, The Nation, March 13, 2020
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Pandemic Demands and Mutual Aid, By Al Mikey and Julia H, Plan C, March 16, 2020
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In Practice, there are Two Pandemics: One for the Well-Off and One for the Poor, By Rodrigo Fracalossi de Moraes, Global Policies, March 20, 2020
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Inequality, anti-Roma racism, and the coronavirus, By Bernard Rorkeburssels, March 19, 2020
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In Africa, social distancing is a privilege few can afford, By Karsten Noko, March 22, 2020
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Body politics at the time of the COVID-19 pandemic, By Gediminas Lesutis, Roar Magazine, April 11, 2020
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Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation, By Jonathan Lear, 2008
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The Difficulty of Reality and a revolt against Mourning, By Jonathan Lear, 2018
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The Difficulty of Reality and the Difficulty of Philosophy, By Cora Diamond, 2003
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We Can Waste Another Crisis, or We Can Transform the Economy, By Kate Aronoff, Alyssa Battistoni, Daniel Aldana Cohen, Thea Riofrancos. Jacobin, March 14, 2020
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Coronavirus Capitalism — and How to Beat It, By Naomi Klein, The Intercept, March 16, 2020 (you can find the associated video here)
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The Covid-19 crisis is a chance to do capitalism differently, By Mariana Mazzucato, The Guardian, March 18, 2020
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Capitalism Has its Limits, By Judith Butler, Verso, 19 March 2020
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Anti-Capitalist Politics in the Time of COVID-19, By David Harvey, March 19, 2020
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Yuval Noah Harari: the world after coronavirus, By Yuval Noah Harari, March 20, 2020
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The coronavirus crisis shows we need an entirely new economic system, By Paul Mason, New Statesman America, March 18, 2020
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Surviving the Virus: An Anarchist Guide, By CrimeithInc, March 18, 2020
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A degrowth perspective on the coronavirus crisis, By the degrowth.info Editorial Team, March 19, 2020
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Social movements in times of pandemic: another world is needed, By Donatella della Porta, March 23, 2020
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What the virus said? "I've come to shut down the machine whose emergency brake you couldn't find", By LundiMatin, March 21, 2020
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No return to normal: for a post-pandemic liberation, By Max Haiven, March 23, 2020
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The Normal Economy Is Never Coming Back. By Adam Tooze, Foreign Policy, April 9, 2020
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How coronavirus almost brought down the global financial system. By Adam Tooze, The Guardian, April 14, 2020.
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Who Gets Forgotten in a Pandemic. By Mike Davis, The Nation, March 13, 2020
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Pandemic Demands and Mutual Aid, By Al Mikey and Julia H, Plan C, March 16, 2020
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In Practice, there are Two Pandemics: One for the Well-Off and One for the Poor, By Rodrigo Fracalossi de Moraes, Global Policies, March 20, 2020
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Inequality, anti-Roma racism, and the coronavirus, By Bernard Rorkeburssels, March 19, 2020
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In Africa, social distancing is a privilege few can afford, By Karsten Noko, March 22, 2020
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Body politics at the time of the COVID-19 pandemic, By Gediminas Lesutis, Roar Magazine, April 11, 2020
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Who Gets Forgotten in a Pandemic. By Mike Davis, The Nation, March 13, 2020
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Pandemic Demands and Mutual Aid, By Al Mikey and Julia H, Plan C, March 16, 2020
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In Practice, there are Two Pandemics: One for the Well-Off and One for the Poor, By Rodrigo Fracalossi de Moraes, Global Policies, March 20, 2020
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Inequality, anti-Roma racism, and the coronavirus, By Bernard Rorkeburssels, March 19, 2020
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In Africa, social distancing is a privilege few can afford, By Karsten Noko, March 22, 2020
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Body politics at the time of the COVID-19 pandemic, By Gediminas Lesutis, Roar Magazine, April 11, 2020
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Snowden Warns Governments Are Using Coronavirus to Build 'the Architecture of Oppression', By Trone Dowd, Vice, Apr 10, 2020
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Inside Dominic Cummings’s coronavirus meeting with big tech, By Gian Volpicello, Wire, March 12, 2020
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"Slack, Zoom, Google Hangouts: Are Your Remote Work Apps Spying on You?", By Yael Grauer, March 22, 2020
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Cities at War… and Its Diverse Manifestations, By Saskia Sassen, newcities.org, March 13, 2020
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The Urbanization of COVID-19. Creighton Connolly, By Harris Ali and Roger Keil, Urban Political Podcast, March 14, 2020
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Bio-austerity and solidarity in the COVID-19 space of emergency - Episode Two. By Michelle Lancione & Abdul Maliq Simone, March 20, 2020
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Will cities stay healthy, or will the coronavirus mean the end of density?, By Alex Bozikovic, The Globe and Mail, March 20, 2020
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Outbreaks like coronavirus start in and spread from the edges of the cities, By Roger Keil, Creighton Connolly, S. Harris Ali, February 17, 2020
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New York’s built environment was shaped by pandemics, By James Nevius, March 19, 2020
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Cities after coronavirus: how Covid-19 could radically alter urban life, By Jack Shenker, The Guardian, March 26, 2020
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The importance of urban green in times of epidemics, By Ares Kalandides, April 11, 2020
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In the coronavirus crisis, who gets to be outside?, By Alissa Walker, Curbed, Updated March 30, 2020
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The Power of Parks in a Pandemic, By John Surico, CityLab, April 9, 2020
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A Billion People Live in Slums. Can They Survive the Virus?, By Lee W. Riley, Eva Raphael, and Robert Snyder, New York Times, April 8, 2020
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Pandemics and the future of urban density: Michael Hooper on hygiene, public perception and the “urban penalty”, By Michael Cooper, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, April 13, 2020
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Snowden Warns Governments Are Using Coronavirus to Build 'the Architecture of Oppression', By Trone Dowd, Vice, Apr 10, 2020
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Inside Dominic Cummings’s coronavirus meeting with big tech, By Gian Volpicello, Wire, March 12, 2020
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"Slack, Zoom, Google Hangouts: Are Your Remote Work Apps Spying on You?", By Yael Grauer, March 22, 2020
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Cities at War… and Its Diverse Manifestations, By Saskia Sassen, newcities.org, March 13, 2020
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The Urbanization of COVID-19. Creighton Connolly, By Harris Ali and Roger Keil, Urban Political Podcast, March 14, 2020
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Bio-austerity and solidarity in the COVID-19 space of emergency - Episode Two. By Michelle Lancione & Abdul Maliq Simone, March 20, 2020
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Will cities stay healthy, or will the coronavirus mean the end of density?, By Alex Bozikovic, The Globe and Mail, March 20, 2020
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Outbreaks like coronavirus start in and spread from the edges of the cities, By Roger Keil, Creighton Connolly, S. Harris Ali, February 17, 2020
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New York’s built environment was shaped by pandemics, By James Nevius, March 19, 2020
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Cities after coronavirus: how Covid-19 could radically alter urban life, By Jack Shenker, The Guardian, March 26, 2020
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The importance of urban green in times of epidemics, By Ares Kalandides, April 11, 2020
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In the coronavirus crisis, who gets to be outside?, By Alissa Walker, Curbed, Updated March 30, 2020
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The Power of Parks in a Pandemic, By John Surico, CityLab, April 9, 2020
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A Billion People Live in Slums. Can They Survive the Virus?, By Lee W. Riley, Eva Raphael, and Robert Snyder, New York Times, April 8, 2020
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Pandemics and the future of urban density: Michael Hooper on hygiene, public perception and the “urban penalty”, By Michael Cooper, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, April 13, 2020
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Anti-Capitalist Politics in the Time of COVID-19, By David Harvey, March 19, 2020
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Mike Davis on Coronavirus Politics, The Dig, March 20, 2020
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Going Viral: The Mother of all Pandemics (Spanish flu), By Hannah Mawdsley and Mark Honigsbaum, 2018
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When viruses become pandemics, By George Miller, March 2020
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Dig: Surviving This Plague with Amy Kapczynski and Gregg Gonsalves. Jacobin Radio. April 3, 2020
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Coronavirus, climate change, and living in states of emergency. Podcast on KCRW hosted by Warren Olney. March 19, 2020
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Anti-Capitalist Politics in the Time of COVID-19, By David Harvey, March 19, 2020
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Mike Davis on Coronavirus Politics, The Dig, March 20, 2020
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Going Viral: The Mother of all Pandemics (Spanish flu), By Hannah Mawdsley and Mark Honigsbaum, 2018
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When viruses become pandemics, By George Miller, March 2020
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Dig: Surviving This Plague with Amy Kapczynski and Gregg Gonsalves. Jacobin Radio. April 3, 2020
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Coronavirus, climate change, and living in states of emergency. Podcast on KCRW hosted by Warren Olney. March 19, 2020