Abstract
An ethos of slowness has begun to permeate a range of everyday practices and philosophies from slow media, travel, sex, food and fashion to scholarship. The danger of simply valuing slowness as an escape from the fast pace of life lies with the reiteration of dualistic thinking that is anchored in humanist assumptions. The negative side of slowness is that it can also refer to a dehumanising, enforced state of boredom and confinement for those who are exiled from the rhythms of social life. Slowness involves practices and desires that cultivate other ways of knowing-moving-sensing that attunes to difference through affective relations that evoke curiosity, wonder, responsiveness. Slowness materialised through the daily movement of cycling that oriented around an assemblage of 1,000 bike-bodies, tents, trucks, food, rural towns, portable toilets and so on.Feminist posthumanists, new materialist and postqualitative researchers have engaged with ontological questions about slowness through different orientations.
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