slowing down as a punk act of rebellion
We live in a mega-scale corporate capitalist economy, and in such a setting technology is never used to save time.
Brett Scott • Tech Doesn’t Make Our Lives Easier. It Makes Them Faster
The nature of urban places simultaneously enchants us, educates us, and points us to the ever-presence of a wilderness beyond what we will ever see or experience. With attentiveness we discover that the places humans inhabit are far more biologically diverse than we imagined. With all the earth we share the presence of moon, clouds, weather, rooted
... See moreLyanda Lynn Haupt • Rooted: Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature, and Spirit
We can begin to experience nature as a doorway to the sacred, a way to find stillness, silence, and timeless mystery.
Mark Coleman • Awake in the Wild
In the past, our timekeeping systems were synchronized with the systems of the earth. The rhythms and seasons of nature help us orient and make sense of when we are. Digital media has warped our subjective sense of time and thrown us into a state of atemporal confusion. Aside from surface-level features like “dark mode,” digital temporality is... See more
Aaron Z. Lewis • The garden of forking memes: how digital media distorts our sense of time
“Why aren’t we thinking about these values from slow fashion or slow food and applying them to our digital lives?”
thecreativeindependent.com • On Slowing Down
We still need to live in some sort of recognition that humans can't hive themselves off into cities and pretend that nature happens outside the city, and inside the city is some fantastically controlled biome over which humans have dominion. That's not the way that the planet or ecology works.
