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Slow Digest: Memory, Imagination, and the Speculative Archive

This week’s edition of Slow Digest is written by C21 Graduate Fellow Jamee N. Pritchard. Monique, a 16-year-old Black girl, sits in her classroom, headphones on and book in hand. She tries to block out the noise of the classmates around her …

Slow Digest: Community

This week’s edition of Slow Digest is written by C21 Graduate Fellow Yuchen Zhao. Slow care, as C21 frames it in previous Slow Digest posts, asks us to place deliberate attention on the beings, things, and sites that sustain shared life over …

Slow Digest: Attention Activism

This week’s edition of Slow Digest is written by C21 Graduate Fellow Jamee N. Pritchard. As an elder Millennial, I had the privilege of straddling both an analog and digital world. I remember using card catalogs and pay phones and recording mixed …

Slow Digest: In the Wake of Slow Care

This week’s edition of Slow Digest is written by C21 Graduate Fellow Jamee N. Pritchard. It is a reflection and introduction to this year’s theme of Slow Care. At 3:56pm on September 27, 2024, my mother took her last breath. In the …

Slow Digest: Humanities III

This week’s edition of Slow Digest was written by C21 Graduate Fellow Jamee N. Pritchard. It is the third essay in a three-part series discussing the essential nature of the humanities. Don’t miss Parts 1 and 2 of this series: “Reshaping the …

Slow Digest: The Humanities II

This week’s edition of Slow Digest was written by C21 Graduate Fellow Jamee N. Pritchard. It is the second essay in a three-part series discussing the essential nature of the humanities. Don’t miss Part 1 of this series, “Reshaping the Humanities Through …

Slow Digest: The Humanities I

This week’s edition of Slow Digest was written by C21 Graduate Fellow Jamee N. Pritchard. It is the first essay in a three-part series discussing the essential nature of the humanities. Part 1: Reshaping the Humanities Through Executive Orders In his first …

Slow Digest: If a Light Year Were a Grain if Rice

In this episode of C21’s “6.5 Minutes with C21,” Jean Creighton, director of the Manfred Olson Planetarium, explores the concept of slow knowing by emphasizing the importance of making complex astronomical knowledge relatable by stripping down details, connecting concepts to …

Slow Digest: The Strother School of Radical Attention

This week’s edition of Slow Digest was written by C21 Graduate Fellow Russell Star-Lack with contributions from C21 Managing Director Katie Waddell. You spend too much time on your phone. We all do, so don’t take it personally. This is by design. …

Slow Digest: Introducing Kyle Whyte

This week’s edition of Slow Digest was written by C21 Graduate Fellow Russell Star-Lack. In the titanic world history, The Dawn of Everything, archaeologist David Wengrow and the late anthropologist David Graeber trace the development of human culture and critique the idea …