Slow Culture vs.

New Capitalism
Dr Will Kurlinkus
Why Study
Communities of
Memory: Jobs
 How is slow
culture related
to memory?
§ Is slow culture inherently nostalgic?
§ Is nostalgia inherently slow/meditative?
§ Is slow culture inherently slow and meditative?
§ Is fast culture inherently bad?
What is
craft?
 § Choose a location—a coffee shop, the quad, your Facebook feed—and
think of an example of speedsickness that happens there. Are people
texting on their phones as they jaywalk? Not leaving work for lunch?
Uncritically gobbling news and misinformation alike?

Resisting § Now create a nostalgic solution that seek entschleunigung, slow culture.

Speedsickness
Here’s a shopper at the local farmer’s market, there’s a man using
sashiko stitch to repair his clothes, and over there is a teenager
handwriting a postcard to a friend. Create a design or custom that
resists the speedsickness you described in part 1.
 § Flattened hierarchies: More power and responsibility to
the everyday laborer.

What is the new § Expert novices: constant obsolescence of careers. The

loss of skilled craft labor. New skills is changing and
capitalism? adapting.

§ Colonization of home by the work lifeworld.