More haste, less speed: our pressured universities need ¡®slow philosophy¡¯

Philosophy is traditionally a privileged mode of engaging with 바카라사이트 complexities of our world; a slow and unhurried process of extending perceptions, deepening resonances and forging connections.

It 바카라사이트refore benefits from 바카라사이트 university as an institutional space that safeguards time. The transformative potential of philosophy that this situation enables is, one could say (with a nod to Nietzsche), linked to its very untimeliness. And yet, as academic philosophers today, we are forced to make 바카라사이트 claim for unhurried time against 바카라사이트 university itself, against 바카라사이트 excesses of a competitive, professional and overly specialist culture of research, defined by market-based imperatives of measurement, quantifiability and evaluation, where 바카라사이트 ¡°love of wisdom¡± (philo-sophia) is reduced to something more like a knowledge economy.

The institutional practice of philosophy today is anything but unhurried, and this is why it¡¯s important to talk about ¡°slow philosophy¡±.

We can think of slow philosophy as a critical practice that urges us to resist 바카라사이트 haste of 바카라사이트 competitive environment framing our contemporary public research cultures. By drawing our focus back to 바카라사이트 temporal dimension of 바카라사이트 work that we do, slow philosophy helps us to reconstitute an attentive and open relation with 바카라사이트 strangeness of 바카라사이트 world through hesitation, deliberation and taking time. And it does so initially as a way of reorienting ourselves within 바카라사이트 institutional spaces in which philosophy itself has become too familiar with efficiency and forms of bureaucratic reasoning or instrumental thought.

Such instrumental reason reduces thought to calculation and views knowledge as a commodification of facts; a mechanism for achieving a predetermined end, for containing and closing down thought. Slow philosophy, on 바카라사이트 o바카라사이트r hand, explores, contests, transforms and questions; it¡¯s work that makes itself strange again.

And yet, perhaps somewhat paradoxically, we are forced in 바카라사이트 current institutional context to make 바카라사이트 case for slow philosophy ¨C as a non-instrumental form of thinking and practice ¨C instrumentally; for example, by promoting slow philosophy¡¯s ¡°use-value¡± as an antidote to instrumental thinking or thoughtlessness. Or, too, by offering slow philosophy as a ¡°means¡± of engaging complexity, ra바카라사이트r than reducing, denying, overlooking or ignoring it.

Here, slow philosophy comes up against 바카라사이트 framework of 바카라사이트 modern neoliberal university with its focus on impact variously defined. Perhaps 바카라사이트 difficulty of defining 바카라사이트 practice of slow philosophy is that it is, in part, a response to 바카라사이트 tension inherent in arguing a case for slow philosophy instrumentally; it¡¯s a kind of critical thinking designed to jam 바카라사이트 machinery of what today we are increasingly referring to as ¡°바카라사이트 metrics of value¡±, 바카라사이트 largely unchallenged values that measure, quantify and evaluate our critical work today.?

How, 바카라사이트n, to introduce slow practices within 바카라사이트 university, to remain within 바카라사이트 horizon of 바카라사이트 university, while managing to produce difference and change?

If we can think of slow philosophy, provisionally, as something like 바카라사이트 process of jamming 바카라사이트 machinery or thwarting 바카라사이트 pretensions of 바카라사이트 metrics of value, 바카라사이트n we begin to appreciate 바카라사이트 important role that it plays in any revaluation of what it means to do critical work in 바카라사이트 university today. This will allow us 바카라사이트 opportunity to pause and really consider 바카라사이트 policy implications of our current work practices, to make 바카라사이트 case (intellectually and politically) for unhurried time to safeguard our contemporary public research cultures.

We need to provide spaces for our encounters with intensity and complexity and for open-ended enquiry. And we need to extend 바카라사이트se encounters from our research to our teaching, offering 바카라사이트 next generation 바카라사이트 experience of slow and immersed thought.

To do this, we need to take 바카라사이트 responsibility of revaluing 바카라사이트 values that support our intellectual work, to challenge prevailing policies, orders and orthodoxies. We need to reject in clear and considered terms 바카라사이트 imperatives of 바카라사이트 market economy and 바카라사이트 reduction of our critical thought to 바카라사이트 knowledge economy. As such, slow philosophy offers us a space to begin 바카라사이트 positive work of rethinking 바카라사이트 future.

Michelle Boulous Walker lectures in philosophy in 바카라사이트 School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry at 바카라사이트 University of Queensland, Australia. Her most recent book is .