should include a detailed discussion of at least 2 authors, key points, main argument/provocations and contributions. You must include at least 1 question you have about the reading as well. There are multiple creative ways to talk across authors and ideas and I encourage you to think deeply about how you put them in conversation with one another. I encourage you to take advantage of the multimedia affordances of the online platform by including images, videos memes etc. in your posts.

topic:

Immobility and the World of Friction

Disease: The Mobile Pathways of Pathogens and the Immobile Politics of Lockdown

Reading:

Davis, Mike (2020). “In a Plague Year.” Jacobin.

https://jacobinmag.com/2020/03/mike-davis-coronavirus-outbreak-capitalism-left-international-solidarity

Halbfinger, David M. et al. (March 16, 2020). “To Track Coronavirus, Israel Moves to Tap Secret Trove of Cellphone Data.” New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/16/world/middleeast/israel-coronavirus-cellphone-tracking.html?action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage