{"product_id":"on-slowness-toward-an-aesthetic-of-the-contemporary","title":"On Slowness: Toward an Aesthetic of the Contemporary","description":"Author: Lutz Koepnick\u003cbr\u003eCategory: Nonfiction\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Columbia University Press\u003cbr\u003ePublication date: October 7, 2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSpeed is an obvious facet of contemporary society, whereas slowness has often been dismissed as conservative and antimodern. Challenging a long tradition of thought, Lutz Koepnick instead proposes we understand slowness as a strategy of the contemporary—a decidedly modern practice that gazes firmly at and into the present's velocity.\nAs he engages with late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century art, photography, video, film, and literature, Koepnick explores slowness as a critical medium to intensify our temporal and spatial experiences. Slowness helps us register the multiple layers of time, history, and motion that constitute our present. It offers a timely (and untimely) mode of aesthetic perception and representation that emphasizes the openness of the future and undermines any conception of the present as a mere replay of the past. Discussing the photography and art of Janet Cardiff, Olafur Eliasson, Hiroshi Sugimoto, and Michael Wesely; the films of Peter Weir and Tom Tykwer; the video installations of Douglas Gordon, Willie Doherty, and Bill Viola; and the fiction of Don DeLillo, Koepnick shows how slowness can carve out spaces within processes of acceleration that allow us to reflect on alternate temporalities and durations.","brand":"Redrainforest","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32433725767735,"sku":"9780231538251","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0258\/4664\/4791\/products\/on-slowness-1.jpg?v=1608190793","url":"https:\/\/redrainforest.myshopify.com\/products\/on-slowness-toward-an-aesthetic-of-the-contemporary","provider":"Redrainforest","version":"1.0","type":"link"}