Practicing slow scholarship in a hard world
I feel surrounded by a special sense of gratitude, one that I’m unsure I have ever felt before, exactly like […] The post Practicing slow scholarship in a…
I feel surrounded by a special sense of gratitude, one that I’m unsure I have ever felt before, exactly like […] The post Practicing slow scholarship in a…
On the 7th of December 2024, Damascus was up all night having a special kind of party. At 3 a.m., my siblings […] The post On Silence appeared first on…
Introduction In the short story Before the Law, Franz Kafka writes about a man from the country who attempts to […] The post At the state’s gate: The…
Just as “Der Optimismus ist Pflicht” (optimism is a duty) – as Popper is frequently (though perhaps apocryphally) credited with […] The post Soliciting Slaps – Notes from…
Why We Need to Talk about Referencing Creative Work “I SUPPOSE you’ll manage.” Chubby Sr. García, the regional military liaison […] The post Beyond the Footnote: Citation as…
“The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative […] The post An ode to being wrong…
What historians of science do is social and cultural history, but of a sort that is sometimes harder to look […] The post Soviet Russian and Armenian Radio…
In late January 2025, just under two months after the toppling of the Assad regime in Syria, I returned to […] The post Syria in transition: Impressions from…
Last year, I submitted an abstract for a conference about the future of authoritarianism with the title ‘knowledge production and […] The post In times like these appeared…
A review of the film Open Unit. The appearance of a new Smith film from Paul Antick is a source […] The post ‘Is this still life all…
Open Unit is another in the ongoing series of Smith and Willing films by Paul Antick. With music by Luke […] The post Open Unit appeared first on…
Imagine the moment you first encounter a piece of creative ethnography—a poem, a performance, an image—that speaks to the heart […] The post Empathy and dialogue: embracing the…
We are a group of five, three men and two women, sitting in the shade of a Maasai hut in […] The post The Temporality of Violence — Affect,…
Star computation scientist Stephen Wolfram has said that in order to accelerate the capacity of artificial intelligence towards a much more […] The post Wild Computing: a view from…
“Why do most of the paintings speak of war?” Dima, barely nine-year-old, asked me. This summer, as my Royal Jordanian […] The post Of Home and Ghosts: Notes…
Abstract The escalation of war in Ukraine in 2022 triggered a global show of solidarity with Ukrainians escaping the country. […] The post Narrative Abandonment. Suffering and the…
In May 2024, following a barrage of Russian missile attacks on power stations across Ukraine, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal announced […] The post Pasts Cast in Concrete and…
It’s a cold early-winter morning in South Brooklyn. The streets are empty. My friend Gabe explains that it’s only a […] The post The Social Act we call…
To A. and O., for better or for worse. The story I want to tell might seem to be about […] The post Meet the smugglers. Decolonising the mind,…
“I do wonder how safe this is for me. I mean, sharing these things.” The room felt small as he […] The post Between Borders and Ballots appeared…
Hey Adam! “In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Dear brothers and sisters, today I would […] The post The Imam Chatbot: A Digital…
When I stumbled back home from the 18th EASA Biennial Conference in Barcelona (23-26 July), my wife asked how it […] The post Just keep swimming appeared first…
Fire Bodies was written in response to the death of my partner and the embodied experience of climate catastrophic events. […] The post Fire bodies appeared first on…
We can smell summer. Or we smell like summer. Either way, for the Allegra collective, it’s now the start of a break until September. No new content will…