Toward the Anthropology of Boredom – REDUX!
To conclude the first ever ‘Allegra Virtual Retreat of Slow Food for Thought’ (AVRoSFfT) we are recycling a post of which we are particularly…
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THE GOOD POOR, THE GENEROUS CELEBRITY, AND OTHER DRAMAS
We thought that the myth of the ‘good savage’ was behind us. We were wrong. It has simply multiplied. A controversial rhetoric of the…
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Let’s Take it SLOW!
Allegra has now been up and running for approximately three months – a period in which SO much has happened! We’ll do a proper…
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BIBLIOGRAPHY on Human Rights (Law) etc
We feel that it has by now become evident what we hope to do with Allegra: to both highlight ongoing debates and create new…
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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 – a source we are…
Read More‘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 collectively thought to have…
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(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 cuisine. Since good products…
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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 the ‘impact’ of scholarship…
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Orientalism after Said
We just came across the last filmed interview of Edward Said, made available on the blog of Verso Books on the occasion of the…
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Paperwork and Modernity
Having a lot to do does not always mean having a lot of power, but having a lot of power always means having a…
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We like: SLOW READING!
Wrapped in the glow of the computer or phone screen, we cruise websites; we skim and skip. We glance for a brief moment at…
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Anthropology in Hostile Times
“…anthropologists like myself currently find themselves working in an academic environment that is profoundly hostile to the task of being alive. Crushed by an…
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