Ian M. Cook

1 month ago | allegralaboratory.net | Priyanka Borpujari |Ian M. Cook |Çiçek İlengiz |Fiona Murphy

“I SUPPOSE you’ll manage.”Chubby Sr. García, the regional military liaison with far too much dust in his cuffs, broke into a smile that marked him a persistent optimist. Still, his eyes hung a beat too long on the groaning pickup piled with plastic drums of contraband diesel, sacks of powdered milk and rice rebagged for trade, and his two hired hands—already called “the boys” without irony—set to guide us through mule tracks and mining trails to the informal encampment beyond the border crossing.

Feb 20, 2025 | allegralaboratory.net | Ian M. Cook |Fiona Murphy |Çiçek İlengiz |Priyanka Borpujari

Imagine the moment you first encounter a piece of creative ethnography—a poem, a performance, an image—that speaks to the heart of human experience in ways that traditional academic texts rarely do. It moves you, challenges you, perhaps unsettles you. But what happens next? Do you simply appreciate the work and walk away, or is there something deeper at stake in this encounter?

Nov 24, 2023 | allegralaboratory.net | Ian M. Cook |accessible. This

TRANSCRIPT OF THE AUDIO ESSAY (listen if you can, don’t read, this is for reference)Ian M. Cook: Yesterday I took a break from my morning doom scrolling through anger, pain, fear, and aggression to check my H-Index.I checked the number of times my publications had been cited by other authors. I didn’t do this to cheer myself up. It’s almost as depressing as doom scrolling.I checked my H-index because I needed to create a metricised, accountable, legible version of myself for a grant application.