“Slow life thinks about connections between how people are denied access to movement and/or are displaced (mobility); how disability and maiiming are spatially produced, distributed, and contained (debility); and how people experience time in relation to spatial geographies (temporality). Whether it be the time of spectacular violence that turns out to be no afterlife at all, the interwovenness of temporality, debility, and mobility are absorbed into the violence of the everyday. Slow life, I argue, is therefore a reckoning with the capitalist captures of uncertainty. And as a corollary argument, slow life refers to the collectivization of slow time that upends the distinctions between those with mobility disabilities and those able-boded whose movements are circumscribed.” (Puar 124)
Puar, Jasbir K. “Critical Disability Studies and the Question of Palestine: Toward Decolonizing Disability.” Crip Genealogies, by Therí Alyce Pickens, edited by Mel Y. Chen et al., Duke University Press, 2023, pp. 117–34. DOI.org (Crossref), https://doi.org/10.1215/9781478023852-005.
“Yes, in this book we are going to advance like the tortoise in the fable; and like the tortoise, or at least so I hope, we shall end up passing the hare, which has decided, in its great wisdom, that political ecology is an outmoded question, dead and buried, incapable of producing thought, unable to provide a new foundation for morality, epistemology, and democracy—the same hare that has claimed to be “reconciling man and nature” in a couple of great leaps. In order to force ourselves to slow down, we will have to deal simultaneously with the sciences, with natures, and with politics, in the plural.” Latour, Bruno. Politics of Nature: How to Bring the Sciences into Democracy. Harvard University Press, 2004.
“We think that making reading visible, making reading together visible, helps to keep the making visible too. It helps us to see what is made through a vision and a feel for where and how it was made together. We can slow down in what we see, hear, feel, touch in this making. We can both recall and foretell the slow reading that makes possible the continuation of this making.” Harney, Stefano and Thompson, Tonika Sealey. “Ground Provisions.” Afterall Journal 45. 26 mar 2018.
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