ARTMargins Volume 10, Issue 2 Editors Address Pandemic's Impact on Global Cooperation

The editors of ARTMargins Volume 10, Issue 2, published in 2021, critique the global response to the Covid-19 pandemic, highlighting how market-driven international competition overshadowed solidarity. They argue that entrenched institutional and ideological mechanisms exacerbated segregation through increased borders and checkpoints, both physical and metaphorical. This analysis underscores the pandemic's role in revealing limitations in collective human action against existential threats. The issue, produced by ARTMargins in collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, focuses on the crisis's acceleration of divisive barriers rather than fostering cooperation. The content is part of the publication's print archives, accessible online, and reflects on broader societal failures during the health emergency.