“It is a cultural revolution against the notion that faster is always better. The Slow philosophy is not about doing everything at a snail’s pace. It’s about seeking to do everything at the right speed. Savoring the hours and minutes rather than just counting them. Doing everything as well as possible, instead of as fast as possible. It’s about quality over quantity in everything from work to food to parenting.”
-Carl Honore, In Praise of Slow
History
It began with Carlo Petrini’s protest against the opening of a McDonald’s restaurant in Piazza di Spagna, Rome, in 1986 that sparked the creation of the slow food movement
Slow Science
slow science
movement that advocates for a more thoughtful, methodical, and curiosity-driven approach to scientific research. It opposes the pressure to produce quick and marketable results, and instead supports the value of exploration, collaboration, and public engagement. Slow science also criticizes the current model of research funding, which is seen as biased and limiting. Slow science aims to restore the autonomy, creativity, and relevance of science in society
Part of the larger slow movement
see also publish or perish
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Slow Thought
Slow thought calls for a slow philosophy to ease thinking into a more playful and porous dialogue about what it means to live Vincent Di Nicola’s Slow Thought Manifesto says there are 7 pillars of slow thought:
- Slow thought is marked by peripatetic Socratic walks, the face-to-face encounter of Emmanuel Levinas, and Mikhail Bakhtin’s dialogic conversations
- Slow thought creates its own time and place
- Slow thought has no other object than itself
- Slow thought is porous
- Slow thought is playful
- Slow thought is a counter-method, rather than a method, for thinking as it relaxes, releases and liberates thought from its constraints and the trauma of tradition
- Slow thought is deliberate
anti-capitalism anti-consumerism
downshifting