Tag: community
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4 Slow community: thinking together
The idea of thinking together is not much in vogue at present. Thinking, if it’s done well, happens over time, and of time we don’t seem to have much to spare. The value of thinking rests on the experience that not everything is obvious and simply has to be stated, as one’s settled view; that…
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3 Slow community: the ethics of care
In one way or another, I want to propose, a community worthy of the name is made of care. It’s possible to call a collection of people a community because they live in the same place, or because they interact with each other in some particular ways. We don’t seem to hesitate to use the…
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2 Slow community: Face to face
I have some good men friends, greatly valued. I have coffee with them most mornings in the local cafe. I often think of the group of African-American men of much the same older age in south Chicago whom Mitchell Duneier wrote about, in 1992, with much affection and sympathy, in his Slim’s Table; they seem…