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 […]
Ethnographies of Academia
There is a mythology of nourishment deposited in the language of the intellect.[1] Thoughts are digested. Ideas are chewed upon.
RECLAIMING THE UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN
Universities are in turmoil. There was a time when they stood out as pinnacles of Enlightenment, where scholarly elites could
A Story of Two Stones
On a cold December day in 1995, after finishing my daily studies as a junior high school student, I was
Evidence for the future: time and proof in commercial risk forecasting
“We are an intelligence and analysis company that forecasts. We are not a news organisation that tells stories. We are
The International Institute of Not Doing Much
Browsing the web in preparation of this ‘Slow week’, we came across an online initiative whose Manifesto resonated with Allegra’s
Slow Week! An introduction
Those who have followed Allegra’s adventures from its creation in 2013 will probably remember that our initial motto was “Slow
Magic little gecko, won’t you become a doctor?
Yesterday I took my two children, aged 4 and 7, to the doctor. Both had been ill for the past
‘From Tweet to Blog to Article’ – New Publishing Trends REDUX!
We had been seeing much excitement in the social media around the post authored by Jessie Daniels titled ‘From Tweet
From Crisis to the University of Utopia
We conclude this dark thematic week on University Crisis with our insistence to be also ‘tongue in cheek’. We remind