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Podcast: New Models
Episode: NM Reads: Reinaldo Laddaga's "A Coney Island of the Virus" (2020)
Description: "A CONEY ISLAND OF THE VIRUS: COVID-19 IN NEW YORK" is an essay by the New York-based, Argentinean writer REINALDO LADDAGA, excerpted from a book he is writing about Covid-19 & NYC. The essay tells of physical geography, strategic cartography, and one city's urban planning as death machine on the generational timescale.
https://newmodels.io/proprietary/coney-island-of-the-virus-reinaldo-laddaga
For more:
https://rladdaga.net/
https://adrianahidalgo.es/author-book/laddaga-reinaldo/
Sound design: @LILINTERNET
Text read by: Carly Busta