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In an age of perpetual acceleration, this book asks what it means to slow down intensively, not as nostalgia or inertia, but as a strategy of creation and survival. Moving from the myth of Deleuze’s “accelerationism” to a new reading of his ethics and politics, it explores how slowness can recompose bodies, thoughts, and collectives. With chapters on Kafka’s “idiots,” the cow as a figure of planetary resistance, and the catatonic as the last refuge of refusal, Deleuze and Slowness offers a strikingly contemporary Deleuze, one who resists the present by slowing it down. * Alex Taek-Gwang Lee, Professor of Cultural Studies in the School of Communication, Kyung Hee University, South Korea * In a digital era defined by acceleration, blistering pace, and relentless speed, a book on slowness is profoundly untimely. By addressing exhaustion and overexertion, this work offers a symptomatology, delivering a shock to thought and making a vital contribution to Deleuze scholarship. It provides a necessary rupture in the unthinkingness of our contemporary moment * Joff P. N. Bradley, Professor of English and Philosophy, Teikyo University, Japan *

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Krzysztof Skonieczny is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of “Artes Liberales,” University of Warsaw, Poland, where he is a member of the Techno-Humanities Lab. He is the author of Immanence and the Animal: A Conceptual Inquiry (2020) and co-editor (with Szymon Wróbel) of Living and Thinking in the Post-Digital World: Theories, Experiences, Explorations (2021) and Regimes of Capital in the Post-Digital Age (2023).

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