Slow Media Manifesto

Zachary Katz

The pitch of life has reached such a frenzy that it seems impossible to react with anything more than astonishment. 

Whereas once thoughts were formed over a lifetime in contact with family, friends, community, and the earth, now thoughts form, disseminate, multiply, and vanish with the speed of attention. 

Ignorance is cured through experience, isolation through empathy, the sense of being lost through connection. 

The slow media movement is an attempt to create connection through human presence, by the creation of objects by hand, and by the dissemination of objects by hand.

Physical space is limited, finite, arduous, and lasting. Objects in our space connect us to the persons who made them, and the places they were made. Connect us to each other and to ourselves. 

Each object formed by human hands is intrinsically unique and serves as a vector for story, as a means of maintaining human presence across time and space. 

We urge you to create unique objects of lasting permanence, to distribute unique objects of lasting permanence, and to share unique objects of lasting permanence. 

This is the slow media manifesto.

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The manifesto as a literary art form is often forgotten, but we here at Mutable have had the audacious notion of collecting these remarkable objects for our Manifesto of the Month series.

This month’s manifesto was expressly written for Mutable. More is to come. We are just beginning to explore the possibilities and potentialities presented by Mr. Z Katz