technology Archives - Allegra Lab https://allegralaboratory.net/tag/technology/ Anthropology for Radical Optimism Tue, 28 Apr 2026 14:39:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://allegralaboratory.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/cropped-Icon-Allegra-Lab-Fixed-32x32.png technology Archives - Allegra Lab https://allegralaboratory.net/tag/technology/ 32 32 Ethnography of an Interface: Self-Tracking, Quantified Self, and the Work of Digital Connections https://allegralaboratory.net/ethnography-of-an-interface-self-tracking-quantified-self-and-the-work-of-digital-connections/ https://allegralaboratory.net/ethnography-of-an-interface-self-tracking-quantified-self-and-the-work-of-digital-connections/#respond Mon, 23 Feb 2026 07:00:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=47071 Yuliya Grinberg. 2025. Ethnography of an Interface: Self-Tracking, Quantified Self, and the Work of Digital Connections. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/ethnography-of-an-interface-self-tracking-quantified-self-and-the-work-of-digital-connections/feed/ 0 The Destruction of Palestine is the Destruction of the Earth https://allegralaboratory.net/the-destruction-of-palestine-is-the-destruction-of-the-earth/ https://allegralaboratory.net/the-destruction-of-palestine-is-the-destruction-of-the-earth/#respond Tue, 09 Sep 2025 07:00:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=45601 Andreas Malm. 2024. The Destruction of Palestine is the Destruction of the Earth. London. New York: Verso Urgency is the word that […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/the-destruction-of-palestine-is-the-destruction-of-the-earth/feed/ 0 Soviet Russian and Armenian Radio Astronomers in Communication with (Extra) Terrestrial Intelligence https://allegralaboratory.net/soviet-russian-and-armenian-radio-astronomers-in-communication-with-extra-terrestrial-intelligence/ https://allegralaboratory.net/soviet-russian-and-armenian-radio-astronomers-in-communication-with-extra-terrestrial-intelligence/#respond Tue, 18 Mar 2025 09:21:05 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=44589 What historians of science do is social and cultural history, but of a sort that is sometimes harder to look […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/soviet-russian-and-armenian-radio-astronomers-in-communication-with-extra-terrestrial-intelligence/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 Being Fungible – They Only Want Us from the Neck Down https://allegralaboratory.net/being-fungible-they-only-want-us-from-the-neck-down/ https://allegralaboratory.net/being-fungible-they-only-want-us-from-the-neck-down/#respond Wed, 12 Feb 2025 07:30:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=43904 They Only Want Us from the Neck Down Across the airport car park, a figure in a mad dash—a sprawl […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/being-fungible-they-only-want-us-from-the-neck-down/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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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/wild-computing-a-view-from-anthropology/feed/ 0 The Imam Chatbot: A Digital Zeitgeist  https://allegralaboratory.net/the-imam-chatbot-a-digital-zeitgeist/ https://allegralaboratory.net/the-imam-chatbot-a-digital-zeitgeist/#respond Fri, 11 Oct 2024 07:00:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=42988 Hey Adam!   “In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Dear brothers and sisters, today I would […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/the-imam-chatbot-a-digital-zeitgeist/feed/ 0 On Starships and people: Can we rescue the liberatory potentials of technology? https://allegralaboratory.net/on-starships-and-people-can-we-rescue-the-liberatory-potentials-of-technology/ https://allegralaboratory.net/on-starships-and-people-can-we-rescue-the-liberatory-potentials-of-technology/#respond Wed, 12 Jul 2023 05:19:32 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=40511 On April 20th, 2023, SpaceX attempted the first integrated flight of its biggest rocket called Starship. SpaceX is a private […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/on-starships-and-people-can-we-rescue-the-liberatory-potentials-of-technology/feed/ 0 How to use health technologies to “kill one little deer in the dark forest” https://allegralaboratory.net/how-to-use-health-technologies-to-kill-one-little-deer-in-the-dark-forest/ https://allegralaboratory.net/how-to-use-health-technologies-to-kill-one-little-deer-in-the-dark-forest/#respond Fri, 10 Feb 2023 08:00:28 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=39729 There is a global push towards making AI more ethical and transparent. As critical contributions on the topic of AI […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/how-to-use-health-technologies-to-kill-one-little-deer-in-the-dark-forest/feed/ 0 Technologies of Trust: Introduction https://allegralaboratory.net/technologies-of-trust-introduction/ https://allegralaboratory.net/technologies-of-trust-introduction/#respond Mon, 12 Sep 2022 07:00:24 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=39268 This post is the introduction of our thematic thread on Trust, curated by Anna Weichselbraun (University of Vienna), Shaila Seshia Galvin (Geneva Graduate Institute) […]

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