How Do Personal Data and Algorithms Influence Our Sense of Self?
All achievement is threatened by the machine, as long as it dares to take its place in the mind, instead of obeying. That…
Read MoreAll achievement is threatened by the machine, as long as it dares to take its place in the mind, instead of obeying. That…
Read MoreThis piece offers an ‘inside-out’ perspective on everyday life in a militarized space. As a researcher and a Kashmiri, the writer is struggling to…
Read MoreIn What is Water? The History of a Modern Abstraction, geographer Jamie Linton (2010: 14) describes “modern water” as the following: “an abstract, isomorphic,…
Read MoreWe are often told that Jordan is one of the most water-poor countries on the planet and it is hard not to recognize…
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 MoreIn collaboration with the conference organisers, Allegra had reached out to a number of colleagues to submit some impressions in the form of “daily…
Read MoreWhen encountering the generosity of brilliant colleagues, one can only start with gratitude. Add to that a historical moment when a virus has reconfigured…
Read MoreEvery so often something happens that perfectly encapsulates the consumptive death rattle that is the job market in higher education. A few weeks ago,…
Read MoreAndrea Ballestero (2019). A Future History of Water. Duke University Press. As I write these lines, my home city, Madrid, is covered in a…
Read MoreAndrea Ballestero,(2019). A Future History of Water. Duke University Press. I have an exercise I like to assign to my students, one that I…
Read MoreAs I finished reading Ballestero’s A Future History of Water, the world observed World Water Day 2021. Organized by the United Nations, it has…
Read MoreIt was already dark when I entered the small shop in the informal camp in rural Lebanon, where Khulud was waiting for customers. This…
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