boredom Archives - Allegra Lab https://allegralaboratory.net/tag/boredom/ Anthropology for Radical Optimism Thu, 19 Mar 2026 12:31:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://allegralaboratory.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/cropped-Icon-Allegra-Lab-Fixed-32x32.png boredom Archives - Allegra Lab https://allegralaboratory.net/tag/boredom/ 32 32 Of rails and rubbish: critique and the absurdity of cleaning days https://allegralaboratory.net/of-rails-and-rubbish-critique-and-the-absurdity-of-cleaning-days/ https://allegralaboratory.net/of-rails-and-rubbish-critique-and-the-absurdity-of-cleaning-days/#respond Wed, 17 Apr 2024 08:00:16 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=41505 In January 2020, the Senegalese President Macky Sall announced a nation-wide ‘Cleaning Day’. Together with a ‘Zero waste’ campaign and followed […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/of-rails-and-rubbish-critique-and-the-absurdity-of-cleaning-days/feed/ 0 We go get lost https://allegralaboratory.net/gone-sweatin/ https://allegralaboratory.net/gone-sweatin/#respond Mon, 25 Jul 2022 19:00:26 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=39246 It’s been a busy half year at Allegra Lab, and we are now taking some time off for the summer. […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/gone-sweatin/feed/ 0 From Things and Stuff to Radically Optimist Multi-Modal Platform https://allegralaboratory.net/from-things-and-stuff-to-radically-optimist-multi-modal-platform/ https://allegralaboratory.net/from-things-and-stuff-to-radically-optimist-multi-modal-platform/#respond Wed, 17 Nov 2021 11:39:10 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=36848 On May 20, 2021, Felix Girke, a member of our editorial collective, gave a presentation in the framework of the […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/from-things-and-stuff-to-radically-optimist-multi-modal-platform/feed/ 0 The Space of Boredom – A conversation with Bruce O’Neill https://allegralaboratory.net/space-boredom-conversation-bruce-oneill/ https://allegralaboratory.net/space-boredom-conversation-bruce-oneill/#respond Tue, 03 Apr 2018 07:00:19 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=27449 The Space of Boredom takes us to spaces on the edge of new global orders, focusing on the lives and […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/space-boredom-conversation-bruce-oneill/feed/ 0 A Hero of Solitude #MeadCompetition https://allegralaboratory.net/a-hero-of-solitude-meadcompetition/ https://allegralaboratory.net/a-hero-of-solitude-meadcompetition/#respond Mon, 06 Feb 2017 08:00:40 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=22901 The person I wish to present in the following, a 72-year-old man named Herman, has withdrawn from almost all human […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/a-hero-of-solitude-meadcompetition/feed/ 0 Redux: Flatulanthropology https://allegralaboratory.net/flatulanthropology/ https://allegralaboratory.net/flatulanthropology/#respond Fri, 22 Apr 2016 07:00:14 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net//?p=4431 When Jon was a PhD student at Edinburgh University in the early 1990s, there was a running joke about the […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/flatulanthropology/feed/ 0 Moments when ‘things happen’: BOREDOM – REDUX! https://allegralaboratory.net/moments-when-things-happen-boredom-at-easa2014-as-allie-turns-1/ https://allegralaboratory.net/moments-when-things-happen-boredom-at-easa2014-as-allie-turns-1/#comments Tue, 19 Apr 2016 05:08:15 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net//?p=7045 To set this week in motion we revisit a theme that we seem unable to escape: boredom. Whether at academic […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/moments-when-things-happen-boredom-at-easa2014-as-allie-turns-1/feed/ 3 New Allegra week: #Boredom, Laughter – and a few farts! https://allegralaboratory.net/new-allegra-week-boredom-laughter-and-a-few-farts/ https://allegralaboratory.net/new-allegra-week-boredom-laughter-and-a-few-farts/#respond Mon, 18 Apr 2016 07:00:54 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=19302 And what do you know – it is AGAIN time for a new Allegra week! Where does the time go, […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/scenes-of-gentrification/feed/ 2 From Crisis to the University of Utopia https://allegralaboratory.net/to-the-university-of-utopia-aka-muri/ https://allegralaboratory.net/to-the-university-of-utopia-aka-muri/#respond Fri, 12 Feb 2016 08:00:26 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net//?p=7364 We conclude this dark thematic week on University Crisis with our insistence to be also ‘tongue in cheek’. We remind […]

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