Slow Digest: Africanfuturism

This week’s edition of Slow Digest was written by C21 Graduate Fellow Jamee N. Pritchard. Slow Futurism in Africanfuturist Science Fiction As a spatial genre, science fiction challenges readers to perceive the world differently. It reconstructs space and place in relation to …

Slow Digest: Violence

This week’s edition of Slow Digest was written by C21 Graduate Fellow Yuchen Zhao. This edition of Slow Digest delves into the concept of slow violence, a term coined by Rob Nixon to describe the gradual, and often invisible forms of environmental …

Slow Digest: Embodiment II (Rest)

This week’s edition of Slow Digest was written by C21 Graduate Fellow Jamee N. Pritchard. Eat, Pray, Love, and Liberation: The Search for Rest Tricia Hersey, the founder of The Nap Ministry and author of Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto, argues that rest …

Slow Digest: Time, Place, Worldview

6.5 Minutes With…Mark Freeland In the latest episode of 6.5 Minutes With…C21, Mark Freeland, Director of the Electa Quinney Institute and Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, discusses the cyclical nature of time in indigenous worldviews, …

Slow Digest: Embodiment I

This week’s edition of Slow Digest was written by C21 Graduate Fellow Carson Pittman. The concept of “slow embodiment” offers a unique perspective on our daily experiences, inviting us to examine how we inhabit our bodies and interact with the world around …

Slow Digest: A Lukewarm Defense of Slow History

This week’s edition of Slow Digest was written by C21 Graduate Fellow Russell Star-Lack. We usually think about history as a series of events. These events, such as births, deaths, war, famine, or revolution, can affect the lives of people in a …

Slow Digest: Music

This week’s edition of Slow Digest was written by C21 Graduate Fellow Russell Star-Lack. This week, Slow Digest examines the concept of “slow” in a more literal sense than most applications of slow knowing. The operative theme for the sources below is …

Slow Digest: Journalism

This week’s edition of Slow Digest was written by C21 Graduate Fellow Yuchen Zhao, with contributions by C21 Managing Director Katie Waddell. This week, Slow Digest explores pace of media production and consumption in the age of instant information. Slow …

Slow Digest: Matter, Object, Tree

6.5 Minutes With…Yevgeniya Kaganovich In a new podcast episode of 6.5 Minutes With…, our director, Jennifer Johung, sits down with artist and UWM professor Yevgeniya Kaganovich as she discusses her collaborative research and art project, Slow Growing in the Time of Trees, …

Slow Digest: Scholarship

This week, Slow Digest offers three articles by scholars, or groups of scholars, who explore or reflect on the rewards of slow(ish), interdisciplinary, exploratory, and highly collaborative scholarly practices. Patricia Hill Collins, “LOOKING BACK, MOVING AHEAD: Scholarship in Service to …