1/ A thread of things I will read & re-read this weekend, thinking thru the production of the viral underclass w newly published research & who we should reading to understand.

1st the big Purdue story, in which McKinsey made this slide (h/t @AnandWrite) https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/27/business/mckinsey-purdue-oxycontin-opioids.html
2/ So fo understand the insidious role of Power Point and power in our modern lives, you must read @shannonmattern writing on “the aesthetics of authority” in @ArtinAmerica. As viral a read on Power Point as a medium of power as is reading @PatBlanchfield on video games. https://twitter.com/shannonmattern/status/1249762347348099072
3/ Then, there’s this new paper co-authored by @gregggonsalves (h/t @brian_goldstone) about the link between COVID and homelessness.

This is all what Ruth Wilson Gilmore calls “organized abandonment”...

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3736457
... Purdue, McKinsey, housing developers, elected officials (Rs and Ds), Power Point makers...they all organize power in such a way that overdoses are organized, a lack of housing is organized, COVID transmission is organized, who lives and who dies (necropoltics) is organized.
Here, @pharmalot shows how McKinsey proposed a corporate bonus for overdose DEATHS (a week before the NYT, btw) https://twitter.com/zachwritesstuff/status/1330197219727859719
5/ Also a good time to start reading and following @ZachWritesStuff if you don’t yet, one of the best journalists of our time on the role of pharmaceuticals in US society https://longreads.com/2018/09/20/hating-big-pharma-is-good-but-supply-side-epidemic-theory-is-killing-people/
Hating Big Pharma Is Good, But Supply-Side Epidemic Theory Is Killing People

New books about the opioid crisis — “Dopesick,” “Fight for Space” and “American Fix” — have different ideas about who’s to blame and what to do next. Our critic says regulating supply can have dead…

https://longreads.com/2018/09/20/hating-big-pharma-is-good-but-supply-side-epidemic-theory-is-killing-people/
6/ Also, always good to follow the new ED of @DrugPolicyOrg, @Kassandra_Fred, who makes the connections between policing, drug policy, race and poverty better than just about anyone in the policy world
You can follow @thrasherxy.
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