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Jean Baudrillard on the sociology of interior design: an extract from the new Radical Thinkers edition of The System of Objects

The ECHO mobile library currently travels around 250km to 11 locations in and around Athens each week, offering access to free reading material for the 115,000 refugees currently in Greece. But, they need your help to purchase a new van so they can continue this vital work.

Here, the ECHO librarians discuss their work in light of the radical history of libraries.

Eyal Weizman on Michael Sorkin (1948-2020) 

Judith Butler discuss the COVID-19 pandemic, and its escalating political and social effects in America.

A brief history of UK sex worker activism

The virus communizes us because we have to face it together, even if by isolating ourselves. It is a chance to really experience our community, argues Jean Luc Nancy

What sort of president does Zoe Leonard want? Plus Emi Koyama, 'the shameless voice of trans rights' and The Transfeminist Manifesto.

Corbyn may be out, Sanders may be down, but Pablo Iglesias and Unidas Podemos have been in power in Madrid since the start of the year. Cristina Flesher Fominaya assesses their progress 

Mike Davis pays tribute to architect and critic Michael Sorkin, who has died aged 71 of complications caused by Covid-19.

Adam Hanieh on the COVID-19 pandemic

An excerpt from What Comes Up: The Right and Wrongs to the City.

An unexpected beneficiary of the COVID-19 pandemic may well be the environment, with the global lockdown leading to falling air pollution levels and rapidly clearing rivers and seas. From this, many have concluded that the virus may be "nature's revenge" on humans – that "we are the virus". Here, Jennifer Johnson analyses the danger of taking lessons on climate change from the huge human toll of the coronavirus.