Contents

Introduction

  1“Chinese Virus,” World Market | Andrew Liu

The best safeguard against the novel coronavirus is the ability to voluntarily withdraw oneself from capitalism

  2Living Inside | Rachel Ossip

The virus comes to visit

  3Coronavirus and Chronopolitics | Gabriel Winant

What matters now is the balance of authority in everyday life—between young and old, worker and boss

  4Stop Making Points | Francesco Pacifico

Rome coronavirus dispatch

  5Release Them All | Sarah Resnick

New York State prisons during Covid-19

  6“It Takes More Than a Virus to Make Us Nervous” | Teresa Thornhill

Covid-19 on Lesbos

  7Living as a Virus in Modi’s India | Shigraf Zahbi

In less than a week, “the virus” became the “Muslim virus”

  8Technofascism in India | Debjani Bhattacharyya and Banu Subramaniam

An ostensible public health tool is being used to create ghettos of the sick

  9Architecture Against Trump | Mark Krotov

On Michael Sorkin, 1948–2020

10There Is No Outside | Karim Sariahmed

Health workers can respond to this crisis by taking up working-class struggles as our own

11Stay at Home | Ana Cecilia Alvarez

How can you shelter in place if you do not have shelter?

12Washington County, NY | Jack Norton

A photo essay from the once and current center of the world

13Adrift at Sea | Laleh Khalili

Sailors face Covid-19

14Distance Must Be Maintained | Aaron Timms

We walk to escape the trauma of the pandemic, only to relive it all over again by walking

15Whores at the End of the World | Sonya Aragon

“Don’t involve the police,” I say every time

16I Must Leave My House | Sean Cooper

Roaming through the Covid-19 surveillance state

17Where Is Patricia Sigl? | Chloe Aridjis

Was she one of the 686 who perished on April 12 or one of the 843 from April 25?

18Quarantine Pastoral | Marco Roth

Primed for story as we are, we feed our wishes with even meager leavings

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Notes