Of rails and rubbish: critique and the absurdity of cleaning days
In January 2020, the Senegalese President Macky Sall announced a nation-wide ‘Cleaning Day’. Together with a ‘Zero waste’ campaign and followed by monthly ‘Cleaning Days’,…
Read MoreIn January 2020, the Senegalese President Macky Sall announced a nation-wide ‘Cleaning Day’. Together with a ‘Zero waste’ campaign and followed by monthly ‘Cleaning Days’,…
Read MoreIt’s been a busy half year at Allegra Lab, and we are now taking some time off for the summer. We had some great…
Read MoreOn May 20, 2021, Felix Girke, a member of our editorial collective, gave a presentation in the framework of the workshop “Multimodal Digital Publishing”…
Read MoreThe Space of Boredom takes us to spaces on the edge of new global orders, focusing on the lives and practices of homeless men…
Read MoreThe person I wish to present in the following, a 72-year-old man named Herman, has withdrawn from almost all human contact. But to what…
Read MoreWhen Jon was a PhD student at Edinburgh University in the early 1990s, there was a running joke about the possibility of developing a…
Read MoreTo set this week in motion we revisit a theme that we seem unable to escape: boredom. Whether at academic conferences or the elaborate…
Read MoreAnd what do you know – it is AGAIN time for a new Allegra week! Where does the time go, despite of our determination…
Read MoreScene One: London Soho and Bloomsbury I used to love London for its Indian and Thai vegan restaurants, vibrant queer cafes, independent bookstores, second…
Read MoreWe conclude this dark thematic week on University Crisis with our insistence to be also ‘tongue in cheek’. We remind both ourselves and others:…
Read MoreMost of our devoted Allies will remember that we started this year with a bang, aka by launching the SAPIENS-Allegra writing competition to discover…
Read MoreOn August 2nd, 2014, Allegra ran a panel titled ‘Boredom, Intimacy and Governance in ‘Normalized’ Times of Crisis’ at the EASA 2014 in…
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