In April I was invited to participate in an AHRC Network Workshop called Pause for Thought: Media Literacy in an Age of Incessant Change, coordinated by Dr Thomas Sutherland (University of Lincoln) and Dr Scott Wark (University of Warwick). The aim of Pause for Thought is to create an interdisciplinary network of scholars, artists, writers, media practitioners, and creative professionals who are invested in the future of media literacy and who might both benefit from and contribute to the formulation of modes of analysis, creative practices, and teaching strategies appropriate for our rapidly shifting media landscape. Should we look upon the unavoidable inability of our practice to keep up with technological change as some kind of failure? Should we leave the question of how we live with technology to those who impose it upon us? Or can we view our experience and our practices as points of departure for a more constructive critique of the high-speed society?
Responses from the workshop have been gathered as a project website here
My own response comprises an abridged version of my introduction to the conference Doing Deceleration (that I co-organised with Henk Slager 4th July 2017, Nottingham Contemporary), and can be read here