Slow Digest: Attensity!

This week’s edition of Slow Digest is written by C21 Managing Director Katie Waddell. On April 1, C21 will lead an edition of the Cactus Book Club focusing on the book Attensity! A Manifesto of the Attention Liberation Movement by The Friends of …

Slow Digest: Mich Dillon

Once a month throughout the 2025-26 academic year, Slow Digest will feature an episode of C21’s 6.5 Minutes With…C21 podcast series, produced by C21 Graduate Fellows Jamee N. Pritchard and Yuchen Zhao. In this episode of 6.5 Minutes with C21, …

Slow Digest: Slow Care in the Media

This week’s Slow Digest is a compilation of slow care media recommendations from the C21 staff: Managing Director Katie Waddell, and Graduate Fellows Chloe Kwiatkowski, Ceceilia Loeschmann, and Jamee Pritchard. This week, through a collection of recommendations from C21 staff, …

Slow Digest: AI, Environmental Problem or Miracle Solution?

This week’s edition of Slow Digest is written by C21 Graduate Fellows Yuchen Zhao and Ceceilia Loeschmann. Artificial intelligence (AI) is everywhere these days, used for tasks like writing emails to creating images and powering research. But behind the convenience is a growing question: What does all this computing cost …

Slow Digest: More Than A Feeling

This week’s edition of Slow Digest is adapted from More Than a Feeling: Performativity, Sincerity, and Sociality in the Art of the Affective Turn, a master’s thesis by Katie Waddell, Managing Director of C21, adapted for Slow Digest by Jamee Pritchard. …

Slow Digest: Nathaniel Stern

Once a month throughout the 2025-26 academic year, Slow Digest will feature an episode of C21’s 6.5 Minutes With…C21 podcast series, produced by C21 Graduate Fellows Jamee N. Pritchard and Yuchen Zhao. In this episode of 6.5 Minutes with C21, …

Slow Digest: Symphony Swan

Once a month throughout the 2025-26 academic year, Slow Digest will feature an episode of C21’s 6.5 Minutes With…C21 podcast series, produced by C21 Graduate Fellows Jamee N. Pritchard and Yuchen Zhao. In this episode of 6.5 Minutes with C21, …

Slow Digest: Minding the Humanities Gap

This week’s edition of Slow Digest is written by C21 Graduate Fellow Jamee Pritchard. “THE GAP BETWEEN THIS ROOM & THE COMMUNITY IS TOO BIG,” wrote one audience member during the State of the Humanities MKE panel discussion. The comment, submitted anonymously …

Slow Digest: The Humanities Cannot Stay the Same

This week’s edition of Slow Digest is written by C21 Graduate Fellow Chloe Kwiatkowski. In October of 2025, the Center for 21st Century Studies hosted a panel on the current state of the humanities in Milwaukee. The panel, moderated by C21’s Director …

Slow Digest: The Politics of Looking

This week’s edition of Slow Digest is written by C21 Graduate Fellow Jamee N. Pritchard. Symphony Swan, a C21 Story Fellow, hosted a memory activation workshop last November at CR8TV House, a community arts organization on Milwaukee’s North Side. Once Swan’s childhood …