Slow Digest
Slow Digest was our weekly digital publication that celebrated and supplemented slow knowing, C21’s 2024-2025 theme. Some editions of the Slow Digest featured essays, insights, and annotations from C21 staff and stakeholders. Others consisted of a collection of recommendations for further reading, curated around a particular slow topic.
- Slow Digest: TelevisionThis week’s edition of Slow Digest was written by C21 Graduate Fellow Jamee N. Pritchard. Planes, Trains, and Automobiles I came across slow TV during the fall semester of 2023 while in the midst of studying for my preliminary exams. While the soothing sound of smooth brown noise routinely quiets my mind, I fell in love with …
- Slow Digest: A Lukewarm Defense of Slow HistoryThis 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 given society, perhaps right up to the present. But what if we’re wrong? The idea …
- Slow Digest: Time, Place, Worldview6.5 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, particularly among the Anishinaabe. He contrasts this with the linear time concept in Western cultures, …
