time Archives - Allegra Lab https://allegralaboratory.net/tag/time/ Anthropology for Radical Optimism Mon, 29 Jun 2026 12:11:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://allegralaboratory.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/cropped-Icon-Allegra-Lab-Fixed-32x32.png time Archives - Allegra Lab https://allegralaboratory.net/tag/time/ 32 32 Movements for Rhythms of Uncertainty https://allegralaboratory.net/movements-for-rhythms-of-uncertainty/ https://allegralaboratory.net/movements-for-rhythms-of-uncertainty/#respond Mon, 29 Jun 2026 08:01:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=48507 This experimental essay treats uncertainty as bodily and relational and uses rhythm as a way of noticing it. It begins in the writing vibrations of the Poetic Resonance Protocol and carries their structure through the composition of the piece.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/movements-for-rhythms-of-uncertainty/feed/ 0 Inheriting a Dislocatory Moment https://allegralaboratory.net/inheriting-a-dislocatory-moment/ https://allegralaboratory.net/inheriting-a-dislocatory-moment/#respond Thu, 26 Jun 2025 07:15:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=45118 On December 8th, 2024, Syria – my country of birth and the place where I lived for twenty-four years – […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/inheriting-a-dislocatory-moment/feed/ 0 Recalibrating Hope and Revolutionary Temporality in the Wake of Al-Assad’s Downfall https://allegralaboratory.net/recalibrating-hope-and-revolutionary-temporality-in-the-wake-of-al-assads-downfall/ https://allegralaboratory.net/recalibrating-hope-and-revolutionary-temporality-in-the-wake-of-al-assads-downfall/#respond Mon, 23 Jun 2025 08:00:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=45393 To be honest, I can’t describe my feelings now; it is a historical moment. Syrians finally feel they can breathe, […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/recalibrating-hope-and-revolutionary-temporality-in-the-wake-of-al-assads-downfall/feed/ 0 Recalibrating Syria: New Openings for Anthropological Engagement https://allegralaboratory.net/recalibrating-syria-new-openings-for-anthropological-engagement/ https://allegralaboratory.net/recalibrating-syria-new-openings-for-anthropological-engagement/#respond Mon, 23 Jun 2025 07:00:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=45349 Joyful crowds toppling statues, unsealing torture prisons, defacing regime iconography, ordinary people roaming freely through Al-Asad’s Presidential Palace . . […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/recalibrating-syria-new-openings-for-anthropological-engagement/feed/ 0 Anthrokino: Open Unit https://allegralaboratory.net/anthrokino-open-unit/ https://allegralaboratory.net/anthrokino-open-unit/#respond Wed, 07 May 2025 15:18:17 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=44897 Come gather with us for another AnthroKino in which we’ll watch Open Unit by Paul Antick. The screening will be […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/anthrokino-open-unit/feed/ 0 ‘Is this still life all I’m good for too?’ https://allegralaboratory.net/is-this-still-life-all-im-good-for-too/ https://allegralaboratory.net/is-this-still-life-all-im-good-for-too/#respond Fri, 21 Feb 2025 07:15:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=43953 A review of the film Open Unit. The appearance of a new Smith film from Paul Antick is a source […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/is-this-still-life-all-im-good-for-too/feed/ 0 Open Unit https://allegralaboratory.net/open-unit/ https://allegralaboratory.net/open-unit/#respond Fri, 21 Feb 2025 07:00:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=44041 Open Unit is another in the ongoing series of Smith and Willing films by Paul Antick. With music by Luke […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/open-unit/feed/ 0 Mediated Lives: Waiting and Hope among Iraqi Refugees in Jordan https://allegralaboratory.net/mediated-lives-waiting-and-hope-among-iraqi-refugees-in-jordan/ https://allegralaboratory.net/mediated-lives-waiting-and-hope-among-iraqi-refugees-in-jordan/#respond Mon, 10 Feb 2025 07:00:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=43843 Mediated Lives is a careful, deeply reflexive, and ethnographically rich study of Iraqi urban refugees living through legal, social, and […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/mediated-lives-waiting-and-hope-among-iraqi-refugees-in-jordan/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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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/the-social-act-we-call-memory/feed/ 0 Afterlives of revolution: Alice Wilson’s response https://allegralaboratory.net/afterlives-of-revolution-alice-wilsons-response/ https://allegralaboratory.net/afterlives-of-revolution-alice-wilsons-response/#respond Tue, 04 Jun 2024 07:05:11 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=41791 I first visited the Dhufar region of southern Oman in 2013. I was soon to learn that some residents were […]

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