En­rico Mac­ciò

Temporalities and Rhythms 

In late-modern and capitalist-advanced societies, everything appears to be accelerated and fast paced. Grand challenges and wicked problems – such as climate, economic, and political crises – similarly require fast actions. Whilst speed has been celebrated throughout the past century and it is considered a virtue to be cultivated, in the past decades new interest emerged in regard to a slower approach to life, as, for example, is the case of the Slow Food Movement.   

 In my research I am interested in the relevance of temporalities and rhythms in the configuration of organizations and organizing. Trough the study of craft organizations and entrepreneurs, I am exploring how a different rhythm – and particularly slowness – raise ethic, aesthetic, political, sociotechnical, and epistemological implications, where slowness is enacted as a mode of being in, relate to, and engage with the world and organizing, privileging processes over quick outcomes.