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 […]
We go get lost
It’s been a busy half year at Allegra Lab, and we are now taking some time off for the summer.
From Things and Stuff to Radically Optimist Multi-Modal Platform
On May 20, 2021, Felix Girke, a member of our editorial collective, gave a presentation in the framework of the
The Space of Boredom – A conversation with Bruce O’Neill
The Space of Boredom takes us to spaces on the edge of new global orders, focusing on the lives and
A Hero of Solitude #MeadCompetition
The person I wish to present in the following, a 72-year-old man named Herman, has withdrawn from almost all human
Redux: Flatulanthropology
When Jon was a PhD student at Edinburgh University in the early 1990s, there was a running joke about the
Moments when ‘things happen’: BOREDOM – REDUX!
To set this week in motion we revisit a theme that we seem unable to escape: boredom. Whether at academic
New Allegra week: #Boredom, Laughter – and a few farts!
And what do you know – it is AGAIN time for a new Allegra week! Where does the time go,
Scenes of Gentrification
Scene One: London Soho and Bloomsbury I used to love London for its Indian and Thai vegan restaurants, vibrant queer
From Crisis to the University of Utopia
We conclude this dark thematic week on University Crisis with our insistence to be also ‘tongue in cheek’. We remind