Issues for the week of May 22, 2020 - Public Seminar

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Curated Essays for the

Week of May 22

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Long Reads

Void Bitches

McKenzie Wark

Professor of Culture and Media, New School for Social Research

The Urn

Marcin Wicha

Graphic designer and writer
Capitalism

Why the Pandemic Paves the Way for Labor Reform

Sharon Block and Benjamin Sachs

Job Market Astrology

Patrick Sheehan

PhD candidate in sociology, University of Texas-Austin

Beyond #CancelRent

Theo Almeida

PhD student of political science at the New School of Social Research
The Pandemic

Liberty in the Time of Corona

Cécile Laborde

Nuffield Professor of Political Theory at the University of Oxford

Pandemic as a Natural Evolutionary Phenomenon

Joshua Lederberg

Microbiologist and former president, Rockefeller University
Reflections

One Question

Renée Schultz

Author, marriage and family therapist

Sentencing the Present: Part Three

Lindsay Atnip, Jonathon Catlin, Benjamin P. Davis, Christina Heatherton, David Lloyd, Mac Loftin and John Lysaker