Failures Archives - Allegra Lab https://allegralaboratory.net/category/thematic-threads/failures-thematic-threads/ Anthropology for Radical Optimism Thu, 12 Oct 2023 16:58:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://allegralaboratory.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/cropped-Icon-Allegra-Lab-Fixed-32x32.png Failures Archives - Allegra Lab https://allegralaboratory.net/category/thematic-threads/failures-thematic-threads/ 32 32 #Failures: When things don’t hold: Anthropologies of failure, breakdown, and dysfunction https://allegralaboratory.net/failures-when-things-dont-hold-anthropologies-of-failure-breakdown-and-dysfunction/ https://allegralaboratory.net/failures-when-things-dont-hold-anthropologies-of-failure-breakdown-and-dysfunction/#respond Tue, 22 Sep 2020 08:00:52 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=34447 The fragility of our infrastructures and modes of living seldom become as ubiquitously palpable as they have with the current […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/failures-when-things-dont-hold-anthropologies-of-failure-breakdown-and-dysfunction/feed/ 0 #Failures: Failure is a Feeling https://allegralaboratory.net/failures-failure-is-a-feeling/ https://allegralaboratory.net/failures-failure-is-a-feeling/#respond Tue, 22 Sep 2020 07:55:57 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=34485 We were sat upstairs in a favourite hot-pot restaurant in old Taipei, nestled in between a deep red temple and […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/failures-failure-is-a-feeling/feed/ 0 Clouds of Failure https://allegralaboratory.net/clouds-of-failure/ https://allegralaboratory.net/clouds-of-failure/#comments Tue, 22 Sep 2020 07:50:45 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=34508 Anticipating the failure of digital devices has become part of the fabric of everyday life in the digital world. With […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/clouds-of-failure/feed/ 1 Narratives of dysfunction and success stories in e-waste recycling in India https://allegralaboratory.net/narratives-of-dysfunction-and-success-stories-in-e-waste-recycling-in-india/ https://allegralaboratory.net/narratives-of-dysfunction-and-success-stories-in-e-waste-recycling-in-india/#respond Tue, 22 Sep 2020 07:45:15 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=34529 There is a growing consensus that India is going through a waste crisis, and this awareness unfolds parallel to an […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/narratives-of-dysfunction-and-success-stories-in-e-waste-recycling-in-india/feed/ 0 Atmospheric Failure https://allegralaboratory.net/atmospheric-failure/ https://allegralaboratory.net/atmospheric-failure/#respond Tue, 22 Sep 2020 07:40:44 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=34568 Fog catchers (atrapanieblas) are fairly simple constructions. They consist of large plastic or nylon nets stretched between two vertically positioned […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/water-failures-and-social-housing/feed/ 0 #Failures: Failed to belong – (Re)Negotiations of care in a Tanzanian social welfare office https://allegralaboratory.net/failures-failed-to-belong-renegotiations-of-care-in-a-tanzanian-social-welfare-office/ https://allegralaboratory.net/failures-failed-to-belong-renegotiations-of-care-in-a-tanzanian-social-welfare-office/#respond Tue, 22 Sep 2020 07:30:31 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=34575 Every day, women, men, and children sit on the wonky wooden benches in front of the social welfare office, patiently […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/failures-failed-to-belong-renegotiations-of-care-in-a-tanzanian-social-welfare-office/feed/ 0 Don’t make me laugh: How getting it wrong shapes interspecies entanglements in the Batek’s forest https://allegralaboratory.net/dont-make-me-laugh-how-getting-it-wrong-shapes-interspecies-entanglements-in-the-bateks-forest/ https://allegralaboratory.net/dont-make-me-laugh-how-getting-it-wrong-shapes-interspecies-entanglements-in-the-bateks-forest/#respond Tue, 22 Sep 2020 07:25:36 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=34618 “yeʔ kan plŋal!” “lawac!” “hɛy yeʔ leh!” “Don’t laugh!”, “It’s taboo!”, “We shouldn’t!”   Naʔ Srimjam kept admonishing us one afternoon […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/dont-make-me-laugh-how-getting-it-wrong-shapes-interspecies-entanglements-in-the-bateks-forest/feed/ 0 #failures: Living Out of Synch https://allegralaboratory.net/failures-living-out-of-synch/ https://allegralaboratory.net/failures-living-out-of-synch/#respond Tue, 22 Sep 2020 07:20:46 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=34627 In their introduction to this thematic series, and the symposium that preceded it, Berisha, Mafizzoli and Ojani invite us to […]

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