{"id":13298,"date":"2025-08-25T15:55:04","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T20:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/c21\/?page_id=13298"},"modified":"2026-05-07T10:35:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T15:35:23","slug":"slow-care","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/c21\/events\/slow\/slow-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Slow Care"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/c21\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/359\/2025\/08\/Slow-Care-2-Circles-Blue-Center.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13340\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/c21\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/359\/2025\/08\/SLOW-Care-logo-800px600px.jpeg\" alt=\"Logo for &quot;Slow Care&quot; with the words &quot;slow care.&quot; The word &quot;slow&quot; is circled with a &quot;W&quot; that emits a soft glow.\" class=\"wp-image-13408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/c21\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/359\/2025\/08\/SLOW-Care-logo-800px600px.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/c21\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/359\/2025\/08\/SLOW-Care-logo-800px600px-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/c21\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/359\/2025\/08\/SLOW-Care-logo-800px600px-768x576.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-about-c21-s-2025-26-theme\">About C21&#8217;s 2025-26 Theme<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Social distance. Compassion fatigue. Enshittification. Goblin mode.&nbsp;<\/em>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Such neologisms are totems of post-pandemic culture, signifying the tandem threats of apathy, antipathy, and growing precarity. If the 2010s were the decade of \u201cmove fast and break things,\u201d the 2020s are arguably the decade of surviving the wreck. Amidst these pressing concerns, this year, the Center for 21<sup>st<\/sup> Century Studies aims to activate <strong>\u201cSlow Care\u201d\u2014a practice that places deliberate attention on the beings, things, and sites that together foster long-term visions of collective life <\/strong>across generations and communities of humans and non-humans, as well as ever-evolving technologies and ecologies.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As C21 enters year two of <a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/c21\/events\/slow\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">SLOW<\/a>, our 3-year thematic arc wherein we explore and enact slower-paced embodied modes of kinship and situation, we ask: How might the short-term efficiency models that dominate our personal and political landscapes feed ideologies of zero-sum competition and unchecked disruption? Do the humanities offer an antidote to the anti-social turn? Can communities succeed where institutions have failed? As we continue to test the boundaries of human innovation, is our tech a tool or a trap, and why does it matter? 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