publishing Archives - Allegra Lab https://allegralaboratory.net/tag/publishing/ 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 publishing Archives - Allegra Lab https://allegralaboratory.net/tag/publishing/ 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 Practicing slow scholarship in a hard world https://allegralaboratory.net/practicing-slow-scholarship-in-a-hard-world/ https://allegralaboratory.net/practicing-slow-scholarship-in-a-hard-world/#respond Fri, 27 Jun 2025 14:16:11 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=45516 I feel surrounded by a special sense of gratitude, one that I’m unsure I have ever felt before, exactly like […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/practicing-slow-scholarship-in-a-hard-world/feed/ 0 Soliciting Slaps – Notes from the Margins of Academia  https://allegralaboratory.net/soliciting-slaps-notes-from-the-margins-of-academia/ https://allegralaboratory.net/soliciting-slaps-notes-from-the-margins-of-academia/#comments Mon, 26 May 2025 07:00:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=45038 Just as “Der Optimismus ist Pflicht” (optimism is a duty) – as Popper is frequently (though perhaps apocryphally) credited with […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/soliciting-slaps-notes-from-the-margins-of-academia/feed/ 1 Beyond the Footnote: Citation as Disruption in Creative Anthropology https://allegralaboratory.net/beyond-the-footnote-citation-as-disruption-in-creative-anthropology/ https://allegralaboratory.net/beyond-the-footnote-citation-as-disruption-in-creative-anthropology/#respond Tue, 13 May 2025 09:03:11 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=44934 Why We Need to Talk about Referencing Creative Work  “I SUPPOSE you’ll manage.” Chubby Sr. García, the regional military liaison […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/beyond-the-footnote-citation-as-disruption-in-creative-anthropology/feed/ 0 An ode to being wrong about creativity https://allegralaboratory.net/an-ode-to-being-wrong-about-creativity/ https://allegralaboratory.net/an-ode-to-being-wrong-about-creativity/#respond Tue, 18 Mar 2025 09:27:16 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=44418 “The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/an-ode-to-being-wrong-about-creativity/feed/ 0 Multimodal Digital Curating as (anthropological) research, collaboration, and engagement  https://allegralaboratory.net/multimodal-digital-curating-as-anthropological-research-collaboration-and-engagement/ https://allegralaboratory.net/multimodal-digital-curating-as-anthropological-research-collaboration-and-engagement/#respond Mon, 17 Jun 2024 13:00:39 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=41724 Introduction Curating has become a popular concept in anthropology in recent years, extending beyond traditional museum and gallery contexts to […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/multimodal-digital-curating-as-anthropological-research-collaboration-and-engagement/feed/ 0 Authorship in the post-academic, post-human age https://allegralaboratory.net/authorship-in-the-post-academic-post-human-age/ https://allegralaboratory.net/authorship-in-the-post-academic-post-human-age/#respond Wed, 29 Nov 2023 10:52:44 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=41076 In 1964, when describing the threshold for obscenity in Jacobellis v. Ohio, the US Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart said […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/authorship-in-the-post-academic-post-human-age/feed/ 0 Venn diagram showing the overlap between supporters of BDSS & BDS https://allegralaboratory.net/venn-diagram-showing-the-overlap-between-supporters-of-bdss-bds/ https://allegralaboratory.net/venn-diagram-showing-the-overlap-between-supporters-of-bdss-bds/#respond Sat, 16 Sep 2023 09:52:22 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=40577 The post Venn diagram showing the overlap between supporters of BDSS & BDS appeared first on Allegra Lab.

]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/venn-diagram-showing-the-overlap-between-supporters-of-bdss-bds/feed/ 0 Yes, Scholar-Publishers Can Make Common Cause After All https://allegralaboratory.net/yes-scholar-publishers-can-make-common-cause-after-all/ https://allegralaboratory.net/yes-scholar-publishers-can-make-common-cause-after-all/#respond Thu, 22 Dec 2022 09:07:36 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=39669 Last spring, I began work with the open access advocacy group, Libraria, as a Community Convener to help organize a […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/yes-scholar-publishers-can-make-common-cause-after-all/feed/ 0 Can scholar-led publishers find common cause? https://allegralaboratory.net/can-scholar-led-publishers-find-common-cause/ https://allegralaboratory.net/can-scholar-led-publishers-find-common-cause/#respond Mon, 18 Jul 2022 11:05:21 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=39225 A couple of months ago, I was trawling Twitter looking for inspiration when I came across a notice that Libraria […]

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