senses Archives - Allegra Lab https://allegralaboratory.net/tag/senses/ Anthropology for Radical Optimism Wed, 01 Jul 2026 07:36:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://allegralaboratory.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/cropped-Icon-Allegra-Lab-Fixed-32x32.png senses Archives - Allegra Lab https://allegralaboratory.net/tag/senses/ 32 32 Resonating with a Gourd https://allegralaboratory.net/resonating-with-a-gourd/ https://allegralaboratory.net/resonating-with-a-gourd/#respond Mon, 29 Jun 2026 08:02:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=48285 During a multispecies ethnographic fieldwork in a Danish private garden, I encountered a weird-looking gourd (Calabash) that was turned into a birdhouse.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/movements-for-rhythms-of-uncertainty/feed/ 0 The Anthropologist as Tuning Fork https://allegralaboratory.net/the-anthropologist-as-tuning-fork/ https://allegralaboratory.net/the-anthropologist-as-tuning-fork/#respond Mon, 29 Jun 2026 08:00:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=48270 This afterword reflects on the practice of ethnography through the metaphor of the anthropologist as a tuning fork—an embodied instrument attuned to the subtle or violent vibrations of lived experience whilst working through ethnographic materials.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/the-anthropologist-as-tuning-fork/feed/ 0 Fight, Flight, Freeze, Film https://allegralaboratory.net/fight-flight-freeze-film/ https://allegralaboratory.net/fight-flight-freeze-film/#respond Wed, 24 Jun 2026 12:39:36 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=48356 This article proposes filming as a response to threat in addition to the commonly recognised responses, fight, flight and freeze.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/fight-flight-freeze-film/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 Sensory Media Anthropology https://allegralaboratory.net/sensory-media-anthropology/ https://allegralaboratory.net/sensory-media-anthropology/#respond Wed, 30 Oct 2024 07:00:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=43055 WHAT IS SENSORY MEDIA ANTHROPOLOGY?  With this thread, we want to make a case for what we call sensory media […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/sensory-media-anthropology/feed/ 0 Skin https://allegralaboratory.net/skin/ https://allegralaboratory.net/skin/#respond Tue, 29 Oct 2024 07:00:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=43088 Mónica Degen  The Reciprocity of Touch  Skin is our largest organ and mainly associated with our exterior appearances and identities, […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/skin/feed/ 0 Electricity https://allegralaboratory.net/electricity/ https://allegralaboratory.net/electricity/#respond Sun, 27 Oct 2024 07:00:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=43040 Sanne Krogh Groth Fragility of voltage Needless to say, electronic music has something to do with electricity. As a genre, […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/electricity/feed/ 0 Steps https://allegralaboratory.net/steps/ https://allegralaboratory.net/steps/#respond Sat, 26 Oct 2024 08:00:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=43102 Mónica Degen Steps to move and change Steps can be both those we take every day, one foot after the […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/steps/feed/ 0 Moved https://allegralaboratory.net/moved/ https://allegralaboratory.net/moved/#respond Fri, 25 Oct 2024 07:00:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=43111 Leonardo Custódio Cameras, Narratives and Actions in Favelas of Rio de Janeiro Complexos (Finland/Brazil 2020) is a 26-minute-long film that […]

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