Full Description
A collection of essays written by arts and humanities scholars across disciplines, this book argues that higher education has been compromised by its uncritical acceptance of our culture's standards of productivity, busyness, and speed. Inspired by the Slow Movement, contributors explain how and why university culture has come to value productivity over contemplation and rapidity over slowness. Chapter authors argue that the arts and humanities offer a cogent critique of fast culture in higher education, and reframe the discussion of the value of their fields by emphasizing the dialectic between speed and slowness.
Contents
Introduction: Contextualizing Speed and Slowness in Higher Education
Stephannie S. Gearhart and Jonathan Chambers
I. Fast Consequences
Imagining the Slow University
Stephannie S. Gearhart
Queerness Over Time: Slowness, Speed, and the Chronopolitics of Scholarship
Margarita Rayzberg and Blake Smith
Out-of-Phase: Studio Art, Time, and Professionalization in the Academy — A Conversation...
Charles Kanwischer and Katerina Rüedi Ray
24/7 Capitalism and Academic Theatre Production
Jonathan Chambers
Subversive Singularity: Beyond Meaning and Knowledge
Gordon C. F. Bearn
II. Slow Resistance: Academic Production
Tactical Slowness: Fomenting a Culture of Mental Health in the Academy
Scott Magelssen and Shelby Lunderman
Waste Time: Excess Potential in Academic Production
C. Greig Crysler and Shiloh Krupar
Neoliberalism, Recursivity, Theatre
Patricia Ybarra
Read Another Book: Repeat When Necessary
Rebecca Hill
III. Slow Resistance: Pedagogical Approaches
Less is More: Slow Reading in the Undergraduate Classroom
Wendy Arons
Consuming Time or Making Time? Slow History and General Education
Jane Simonsen
Teaching Music Slowly
Fred Everett Maus
Mindfulness as Slow Education in the First-Year Composition Classroom
Kyle Garton-Gundling
Not So Fast: The Virtues of Slow Rhetoric
Barry M. Kroll
Conclusion
Stephannie S. Gearhart and Jonathan Chambers
