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Reversing the Cult of Speed in Higher Education The Slow Movement in the Arts and Humanities

Edited By Jonathan Chambers, Stephannie Gearhart Copyright 2019
    276 Pages
    by Routledge

    276 Pages 25 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    A collection of essays written by arts and humanities scholars across disciplines, this book argues that higher education has been compromised by its uncritical acceptance of our culture’s standards of productivity, busyness, and speed. Inspired by the Slow Movement, contributors explain how and why university culture has come to value productivity over contemplation and rapidity over slowness. Chapter authors argue that the arts and humanities offer a cogent critique of fast culture in higher education, and reframe the discussion of the value of their fields by emphasizing the dialectic between speed and slowness.

    Introduction: Contextualizing Speed and Slowness in Higher Education



    Stephannie S. Gearhart and Jonathan Chambers





              I. Fast Consequences









    1. Imagining the Slow University




      2. Stephannie S. Gearhart







    2. Queerness Over Time: Slowness, Speed, and the Chronopolitics of Scholarship




      3. Margarita Rayzberg and Blake Smith







    3. Out-of-Phase: Studio Art, Time, and Professionalization in the Academy — A Conversation…




      4. Charles Kanwischer and Katerina Rüedi Ray







    4. 24/7 Capitalism and Academic Theatre Production




      5. Jonathan Chambers







    5. Subversive Singularity: Beyond Meaning and Knowledge




      6. Gordon C. F. Bearn





      II. Slow Resistance: Academic Production







    6. Tactical Slowness: Fomenting a Culture of Mental Health in the Academy




      7. Scott Magelssen and Shelby Lunderman







    7. Waste Time: Excess Potential in Academic Production




      8. C. Greig Crysler and Shiloh Krupar







    8. Neoliberalism, Recursivity, Theatre




      9. Patricia Ybarra







    9. Read Another Book: Repeat When Necessary




      10. Rebecca Hill





      III. Slow Resistance: Pedagogical Approaches







    10. Less is More: Slow Reading in the Undergraduate Classroom




      11. Wendy Arons







    11. Consuming Time or Making Time? Slow History and General Education




      12. Jane Simonsen







    12. Teaching Music Slowly




      13. Fred Everett Maus







    13. Mindfulness as Slow Education in the First-Year Composition Classroom




      14. Kyle Garton-Gundling







    14. Not So Fast: The Virtues of Slow Rhetoric




               Barry M. Kroll





    Conclusion



    Stephannie S. Gearhart and Jonathan Chambers

    Biography

    Stephannie Gearhart is Associate Professor of English at Bowling Green State University, USA.





    Jonathan Chambers is Professor of Theater and Film at Bowling Green State University, USA.

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