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.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Contextualizing Speed and Slowness in Higher Education
Stephannie S. Gearhart and Jonathan Chambers
I. Fast Consequences
- Imagining the Slow University
- Queerness Over Time: Slowness, Speed, and the Chronopolitics of Scholarship
- Out-of-Phase: Studio Art, Time, and Professionalization in the Academy — A Conversation…
- 24/7 Capitalism and Academic Theatre Production
- Subversive Singularity: Beyond Meaning and Knowledge
- Tactical Slowness: Fomenting a Culture of Mental Health in the Academy
- Waste Time: Excess Potential in Academic Production
- Neoliberalism, Recursivity, Theatre
- Read Another Book: Repeat When Necessary
- Less is More: Slow Reading in the Undergraduate Classroom
- Consuming Time or Making Time? Slow History and General Education
- Teaching Music Slowly
- Mindfulness as Slow Education in the First-Year Composition Classroom
- Not So Fast: The Virtues of Slow Rhetoric
Stephannie S. Gearhart
Margarita Rayzberg and Blake Smith
Charles Kanwischer and Katerina Rüedi Ray
Jonathan Chambers
Gordon C. F. Bearn
II. Slow Resistance: Academic Production
Scott Magelssen and Shelby Lunderman
C. Greig Crysler and Shiloh Krupar
Patricia Ybarra
Rebecca Hill
III. Slow Resistance: Pedagogical Approaches
Wendy Arons
Jane Simonsen
Fred Everett Maus
Kyle Garton-Gundling
Barry M. Kroll
Conclusion
Stephannie S. Gearhart and Jonathan Chambers
