Open Access, Wiki-PR and Nietzsche (courtesy of Kelly Grotke)
This particular piece of slow food for thought on a very current theme came via our ‘friends’ at Facebook – […]
Note One-Shots
‘Good’ celebrity: more harm than good?
A while back our contributor Antonio de Lauri drew our attention on the myth of the ‘good poor’ and how we may have
(Slow) Food for Thoughts: Ingold on Anthropology, Art and Self-Transformation
Tim Ingold has been a great source of inspiration to us recently, adding many ‘food for thoughts’ to ALLEGRA’s slow
From the Supervised University to the University of Utopia
The contemporary transformations of universities with the adoption of profit oriented modes of management and a greater pressure to measure
Orientalism after Said
We just came across the last filmed interview of Edward Said, made available on the blog of Verso Books on
Paperwork and Modernity
Having a lot to do does not always mean having a lot of power, but having a lot of power
We like: SLOW READING!
Wrapped in the glow of the computer or phone screen, we cruise websites; we skim and skip. We glance for
Anthropology in Hostile Times
“…anthropologists like myself currently find themselves working in an academic environment that is profoundly hostile to the task of being
Time for a Change – SPORTS LAW?
Bored of digging into the hard core of obscurity? Want something more tangible than theoretical abstractions? Then the following
Intuition and Science
All science relies powerfully on forms of intuition. As Kuhn (1962) showed long ago in his discussion of paradigm shifts