Time-ing Out of Old Age with Marc Augé
I have carried Marc Augé’s book Everyone Dies Young (New York: Columbia University Press 2016), with me everywhere these past two months. When walking…
Read MoreI have carried Marc Augé’s book Everyone Dies Young (New York: Columbia University Press 2016), with me everywhere these past two months. When walking…
Read MoreThere is a mythology of nourishment deposited in the language of the intellect.[1] Thoughts are digested. Ideas are chewed upon. There is hunger for…
Read MoreUniversities are in turmoil. There was a time when they stood out as pinnacles of Enlightenment, where scholarly elites could profess to a superior…
Read MoreOn a cold December day in 1995, after finishing my daily studies as a junior high school student, I was trying to catch the…
Read More“We are an intelligence and analysis company that forecasts. We are not a news organisation that tells stories. We are not political scientists who…
Read MoreBrowsing the web in preparation of this ‘Slow week’, we came across an online initiative whose Manifesto resonated with Allegra’s very own. Below we…
Read MoreThose who have followed Allegra’s adventures from its creation in 2013 will probably remember that our initial motto was “Slow down!”. Prior to launching…
Read MoreYesterday I took my two children, aged 4 and 7, to the doctor. Both had been ill for the past week; the older one…
Read MoreWe had been seeing much excitement in the social media around the post authored by Jessie Daniels titled ‘From Tweet to Blog Post to…
Read MoreWe conclude this dark thematic week on University Crisis with our insistence to be also ‘tongue in cheek’. We remind both ourselves and others:…
Read MoreGish Amit is a historian who has been involved in non formal education for twenty years. He taught cinema and literature at the Arab…
Read More“If we fail to defend our cause, then we should change the defenders, not the cause.” (Ghassan Kanafani) Oslo has often been defined as…
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