Slow Citation Project
The Slow Citation Project is a series of invitations. We invite people to honour ideas as living and sovereign agentic forces.
The Slow Citation Project is embedded in the academic research landscape. The members of Axiology Clinic would like to acknowledge and thank the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada for its generous support of the project "Gathering space: Invitations to doing and being together".
(letterpress details, 2023)
Project Overview
This collaborative project is a materials-based intervention in academic publishing practice.
In Slow Citation, we are holding citations with intention in handcraft in order to honour ideas in a way that is not popularly accessible in academic environments that emphasize velocity, and draw from existing academic, as well as fine and popular cultural literatures extractively. With each letter, individually drawn and composed in letterpress printmaking practices, citations are manually printed. In this project, we want to slow down our ways with other people's words, and honour the ways in which citations do their work on us.
This way of being with citations is one way we being with the larger theoretical and methodological offerings of Shawn Wilson and Cindy Gaudet and inviting those works do its work on us.