Slow Technology Reader: A Tool for Shaping Divergent Futures

Edited by Carolyn F. Strauss

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.

480 pages, 21 x 16 cm, softcover, Valiz (Amsterdam).