Speed and Hyper-technology / Re-approaching Slowness in Knowledge

The growth of technologies introduced into contemporary societies an acceleration in lifestyles: on a technical level (media, transport, communication, production), a socio-relational level (institutions, family, work), and emotional and physical levels (visual interactions, fitness). This accelerated time produces more easier-to-establish relationships, but these are also more fragile and ephemeral since they are entrusted to languages that offer fast reciprocations in which the dialogue is impoverished and trivialized. If mobility – physical and metaphorical – is the figure of contemporaneity, then it must also be the path to follow in the search for a countertendency that approaches understanding at a slower pace. The challenge is to use the very addiction to technologies as space-time for knowledge education and critical reflection on the different cultural expressions and claims that are intertwined in the contemporary social fabric in order to recalibrate digital and visual communication and focus on more human interactions.