This special issue composed of essays that brainstorm the triadic relationship between Covid-19, Race and the Markets, addresses the fundamentals of a world economic system that embeds market values within social and cultural lifeways. It penetrates deep into the insecurities and inequalities that have endured for several centuries, through liberalism for sure, and compounded ineluctably into these contemporary times. Market fundamentalism is thoroughly complicit with biopolitical sovereignty-its racializing socioeconomic projects, cheapens life given its obsessive focus on high growth, by any means necessary. If such precarity seemed normal even opaque to those privileged enough to reap the largess of capitalism and its political correlates, the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic with its infliction of sickness and death has exposed the social and economic dehiscence undergirding wealth in the U.S. especially, and the world at large. The essays remind us of these fissures, offering ways to unthink this devastating spiral of growth, and embrace an unadulterated care centered system; one that offers a more open and relational approach to life with the planet. Care, then becomes the pursuit of a re-existence without domination, and the general toxicity that has accompanied a regimen of high growth. The contributors to this volume, join the growing global appeal to turn back from this disaster, and rethink how we relate to ourselves, to our neighbors here and abroad, and to the non-humans in order to dwell harmoniously within socionature.

这期特刊由文章组成，这些文章集思广益，探讨了 Covid-19、种族和市场之间的三元关系，探讨了将市场价值嵌入社会和文化生活方式的世界经济体系的基本原理。它深入渗透了几个世纪以来一直存在的不安全感和不平等，当然是通过自由主义，并不可避免地融入了当代。市场原教旨主义与生命政治主权完全同谋——其种族化的社会经济项目，鉴于其对高增长的痴迷，以任何必要的方式降低了生活的成本。如果这种不稳定对于那些有幸获得资本主义及其政治关联的特权的人来说似乎是正常的，甚至是不透明的，Covid-19 大流行的爆发及其带来的疾病和死亡，暴露了支撑美国乃至整个世界财富的社会和经济裂痕。这些文章让我们想起了这些裂痕，提供了摆脱这种毁灭性增长螺旋的方法，并拥抱一个纯粹的以护理为中心的系统；一种提供更开放和更相关的生活方式与行星。护理，然后变成了对没有支配的重新存在的追求，以及伴随着高速增长的养生之道的普遍毒性。本书的撰稿人加入了日益增长的全球呼吁，希望从这场灾难中恢复过来，并重新思考我们如何与自己、与国内外的邻居以及与非人类的关系，以便在社会自然中和谐共处。