Abstract: From philosophy's rhythms to textured and elastic time in sound and image alike, this special issue gathers five distinct approaches to deceleration across different media (music, photography, film, theoretical writing) that have in common an orientation toward what it would mean to dwell in the openness and immeasurability of time, against its regimented tempos. Underlying this orientation is a shared concern with deceleration as a mode of relationality that resists the insistent—even murderous—metrics of the present. Deceleration, as the essays collected here theorize it, harbors a desire for time uncontrolled, which is to say, ungovernable time—time beyond the metronomic strictures of capitalist rhythm, bureaucratized waiting, incarceration, or annihilating atomic time.
Keller et al. (Wed,) studied this question.