Slow Narrative and Nonhuman Materialities investigates how the
experience of slowness in contemporary narrative practices can
create a vision of interconnectedness between human communities and
the nonhuman world. Here, slowness is not a matter of measurable
time but a transformative experience for audiences of contemporary
narratives engaging with the ecological crisis. While climate
change is a scientific abstraction, the imagination of slowness
turns it into a deeply embodied and affective experience. Marco
Caracciolo explores the value of slowness in dialogue with a wide
range of narratives in various media, from prose fiction to comic
books to video games. He argues that we need patience and an eye
for complex patterns in order to recognize the multiple threads
that link human communities and the slow-moving processes of
climate and geological history. Decelerating attention offers
important insight into human societies' relations with the nonhuman
materialities of Earth's physical landscapes, ecosystems, and
atmosphere. Caracciolo centers the experiential effects of
narrative and offers a range of theoretically grounded readings
that complement the formal language of narrative theory. These
close readings demonstrate that slowness is not a matter of
measurable time but a "thickening" of attention that reveals the
deeply multithreaded nature of reality. The importance of this
realization cannot be overstated: through an investment in the here
and now of experience, slow narrative can help us manage the
uncertainty of living in an era marked by dramatically shifting
climate patterns.
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