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The Impact of the COVID-19 on Divided Cyprus
The divided island of Cyprus reported its first case of COVID–19 to local media on 9 March.
Learning from the Virus | Artforum International
Biopolitics implies a hierarchy with the immunized at the top and the de-munized, who will be excluded from any act of immunological protection, at the bottom.
The Battle Over the Numbers: Turkey’s Low Case Fatality Rate | Institut Montaigne
What could be seen as an investment strategy feeding corruption ironically helped Turkey in delivering effective care to COVID-19 patients.
Quarantine used to be a normal part of life – and wasn’t much liked then, either
Lockdown is a form of quarantine, a practise used to try to stem the spread of disease for hundreds of years by controlling humans.
How the World Will Look After the Coronavirus Pandemic | Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
This much is certain: Just as this disease has shattered lives, disrupted markets and exposed the competence (or lack thereof) of governments, it will lead to permanent shifts in political and economic power in ways that will become apparent only later.
Pandemics and the Shape of Human History | The New Yorker
Outbreaks have sparked riots and propelled public-health innovations, prefigured revolutions and redrawn maps. Just as there are many ways for microbes to infect a body, there are many ways for epidemics to affect the body politic.
Monitor and Punish? Yes, Please! – The Philosophical Salon
Are we approaching a global state of exception? Have Giorgio Agamben’s analyses gained new actuality?
Coronavirus and philosophers | European Journal of Psychoanalysis
A collection of various articles and commentary by philosophers and how their work relates to the pandemic
Coronavirus crisis: Major economic and financial consequences | openDemocracy
Beyond the immediate emergency, a radical change in European policies is needed. European fiscal policy should be based on a large common budget and greater autonomy for national governments.
Mike Davis on Coronavirus: “In a Plague Year”
As coronavirus spreads rapidly around the world, outpacing our capacity for testing, let alone treatment, the long-anticipated monster is finally at the door. And with global capitalism so impotent in the face of this biological crisis, our demands must be for properly international public-health infrastructure.