Anneke Smelik is Professor of Visual Culture at the Radbound University Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Her books include Thinking through Fashion: A Key Guide to Theorists (2015) and Performing Memory in Art and Popular Culture (2013). In this lecture, she argues that wearable technology does not merely involve technological innovation, but also needs changes towards a more sustainable system of production and consumption. Wearable technology can never fulfill its promise in a pressurized system of fast fashion within a speedy 24/7 culture (Crary 2013). Ultimately, this lecture therefore argues for a 'small philosophy of slowness'.
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