memory Archives - Allegra Lab https://allegralaboratory.net/tag/memory/ Anthropology for Radical Optimism Tue, 24 Mar 2026 19:49:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://allegralaboratory.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/cropped-Icon-Allegra-Lab-Fixed-32x32.png memory Archives - Allegra Lab https://allegralaboratory.net/tag/memory/ 32 32 When the Ground Refuses to Settle: Living with Unfinished Landscapes in the Western Ghats  https://allegralaboratory.net/when-the-ground-refuses-to-settle-living-with-unfinished-landscapes-in-the-western-ghats/ https://allegralaboratory.net/when-the-ground-refuses-to-settle-living-with-unfinished-landscapes-in-the-western-ghats/#respond Mon, 09 Feb 2026 09:29:23 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=46749 On the national highway that cuts across the lower slopes of the Western Ghats, the surface itself is rarely the […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/when-the-ground-refuses-to-settle-living-with-unfinished-landscapes-in-the-western-ghats/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 Do walls still have ears? https://allegralaboratory.net/do-walls-still-have-ears/ https://allegralaboratory.net/do-walls-still-have-ears/#respond Wed, 25 Jun 2025 08:00:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=45444 How can communications studies contribute to anthropological inquiry of Syria? This essay reflects on the architecture that governs silence and […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/do-walls-still-have-ears/feed/ 0 On Volte-Face (Takwi’) https://allegralaboratory.net/on-volte-face-takwi/ https://allegralaboratory.net/on-volte-face-takwi/#respond Wed, 25 Jun 2025 07:38:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=45151 Speaking was very risky during the fifty-four years long Asad family domination of the republic.[1] By speaking, I am not […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/on-volte-face-takwi/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 The Social Act We Call Memory  https://allegralaboratory.net/the-social-act-we-call-memory/ https://allegralaboratory.net/the-social-act-we-call-memory/#respond Fri, 22 Nov 2024 07:00:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=43459 It’s a cold early-winter morning in South Brooklyn. The streets are empty. My friend Gabe explains that it’s only a […]

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