media Archives - Allegra Lab https://allegralaboratory.net/tag/media/ Anthropology for Radical Optimism Fri, 26 Jun 2026 14:54:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://allegralaboratory.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/cropped-Icon-Allegra-Lab-Fixed-32x32.png media Archives - Allegra Lab https://allegralaboratory.net/tag/media/ 32 32 Code from nowhere https://allegralaboratory.net/code-from-nowhere/ https://allegralaboratory.net/code-from-nowhere/#respond Thu, 25 Jun 2026 13:30:53 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=48214 This essay ethnographically examines the maintenance of small-scale digital publishing infrastructures and the shifting culture of software work under generative AI.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/code-from-nowhere/feed/ 0 Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal https://allegralaboratory.net/perfect-victims-and-the-politics-of-appeal/ https://allegralaboratory.net/perfect-victims-and-the-politics-of-appeal/#respond Thu, 25 Jun 2026 07:00:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=48102 Mohammed El-Kurd. 2025. Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal. Chicago: Haymarket Books. “To refuse that which has been refused […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/perfect-victims-and-the-politics-of-appeal/feed/ 0 Breaking Form: Practices of Black visuality and Sonority  https://allegralaboratory.net/breaking-form-practices-of-black-visuality-and-sonority/ https://allegralaboratory.net/breaking-form-practices-of-black-visuality-and-sonority/#respond Wed, 17 Sep 2025 07:00:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=45646 Realizing that things are     because      things are connected.  In the spaces between,  we create.  Some days I wonder if this is […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/breaking-form-practices-of-black-visuality-and-sonority/feed/ 0 Avowing Revolution https://allegralaboratory.net/avowing-revolution/ https://allegralaboratory.net/avowing-revolution/#respond Tue, 24 Jun 2025 20:00:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=45470 Khaldoun al-Mallah, a Palestinian-Syrian medical doctor and writer, journeyed south from exile in Idlib Province two days after the fall […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/avowing-revolution/feed/ 0 Beyond Preaching Unity and Inclusion: Observations from Syria’s Media and Online Spaces https://allegralaboratory.net/beyond-preaching-unity-and-inclusion-observations-from-syrias-media-and-online-spaces/ https://allegralaboratory.net/beyond-preaching-unity-and-inclusion-observations-from-syrias-media-and-online-spaces/#respond Tue, 24 Jun 2025 07:11:43 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=45178 The collapse of Bashar Al-Asad’s authoritarian regime (2000-2024) and the less-violent-than-expected capture of Damascus by Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) brought […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/beyond-preaching-unity-and-inclusion-observations-from-syrias-media-and-online-spaces/feed/ 0 The Dictator’s New Clothes: Syrian Drama’s Prescience https://allegralaboratory.net/the-dictators-new-clothes-syrian-dramas-presence/ https://allegralaboratory.net/the-dictators-new-clothes-syrian-dramas-presence/#respond Mon, 23 Jun 2025 08:15:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=45405 On the morning of December 8, 2024, just hours after the fall of the Al-Asad regime was officially declared, Syrians […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/the-dictators-new-clothes-syrian-dramas-presence/feed/ 0 Their Life Has Been Taken; Their Death is Denied https://allegralaboratory.net/their-life-has-been-taken-their-death-is-denied/ https://allegralaboratory.net/their-life-has-been-taken-their-death-is-denied/#respond Mon, 23 Jun 2025 07:00:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=45343 Didier Fassin. 2024. Moral Abdication: How the World Failed to Stop the Destruction of Gaza. London: Verso. Israel’s nearly two-year […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/their-life-has-been-taken-their-death-is-denied/feed/ 0 Online Nuclear Regulators, Trust, and Feelings about the Future in Tanzania https://allegralaboratory.net/online-nuclear-regulators-trust-and-feelings-about-the-future-in-tanzania/ https://allegralaboratory.net/online-nuclear-regulators-trust-and-feelings-about-the-future-in-tanzania/#respond Sat, 08 Mar 2025 16:04:07 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=44650 ‘When we talk about the National Atomic Energy Commission, what should an ordinary person think of?’ asked Tanzanian journalist Ramadhan […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/online-nuclear-regulators-trust-and-feelings-about-the-future-in-tanzania/feed/ 0 Wild Computing: a view from anthropology  https://allegralaboratory.net/wild-computing-a-view-from-anthropology/ https://allegralaboratory.net/wild-computing-a-view-from-anthropology/#respond Fri, 20 Dec 2024 15:21:54 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=43796 Star computation scientist Stephen Wolfram has said that in order to accelerate the capacity of artificial intelligence towards a much more […]

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