Slow Technology Reader—A Tool for Shaping Divergent Futures

Slow Technology Reader gathers contributions from diverse disciplinary fields and knowledge traditions to consider technology through a ‘Slow’ lens. By turns artistic, speculative, and academic the contents here probe alternative potentials for the digital entities proliferating in our midst, by invoking variable pacings and temporalities of engagement; reflecting through tools and techniques that have endured the test of time; and looking to non-Western and more-than-human sources to inspire technological development.

This new volume in the Slow Reader series gestures toward a fuller spectrum of what technology is and can be, moving beyond the limited perspectives and legacy structures that dominate technological development today. It includes the rich insights and intelligences of feminist, queer, Indigenous, activist, and ecological practices—offering them as vibrant data points for shaping more just and generative futures. At a time when the digital reaches into nearly every facet of planetary existence, this book aims to disrupt and recalibrate how we think about and relate/live with technology, illuminating more expansive pathways forward.

Contributions: Paula Albuquerque, Kader Attia, Aïsta Bah, Scott Benesiinaabandan, Pac.me B.ru, Cláudio Bueno, Derrais Carter, Raven Chacon, Joana Chicau, Guy Cools, Laura Coombs, Siobhán K. Cronin, Will Daddario, Edwidge Danticat, Thierno Dia, Mamadou Taslim Diallo, Henriette Essami-Khaullot, Silvia Federici, Mariana Fernández Mora, Ella Finer, Jem Finer, Mashinka Firunts Hakopian, Dakin Hart, Faïza Hirach, Candice Hopkins, Christine Hvidt, Carol R. Kallend, Theun Karelse, Danel Khojayeva, Suzanne Kite, Fran Kourouma, Jaron Lanier, Jason Edward Lewis, Pia Lindman, Gļeb(s) Maiboroda, Pierre Marchand, Michael Marder, Nanako Nakajima, Florence Okoye, Marina Orlova, Jogi Panghaal, Moisés Patrício, Rory Pilgrim, Elisabeth (elieli) Raymond, Milady Renoir, Oscar Santillán, Laurel Schwulst, Mindy Seu, Camila Sposati, Christel Stalpaert, Corey Stover, Melita Stover Janis, Carolyn F. Strauss, Foluke Taylor, Alberto Isifin Tchama, Ovidiu Ţichindeleanu, Rolando Vázquez Melken, Evelyn Wan, Halidou Wuandaougo, Arkadi Zaides, Joanne Zerdy, Martín Zícari

Support: Creative Industries Fund NL, Cultuurfonds