The contemporary university privileges speed, precarity, competition, and performativity; it operates through modes of accelerationism, work intensification and productivity; and it is oriented to producing academic subjectivities rooted in self-commodification. Much of this is antithetical to feminist ethics and working practices which focus on care, relationality and working together. The article explores these tensions as a basis for moving forward with the question: What does a new material feminist approach offer as an ethical practice to work against these damaging conditions? In response, it draws on the work of Barad (2007) and Haraway (2016) to propose an embodied material feminist ethics of response-ability as an alternative approach to educational research, teaching and mentoring. Further, relating Stengers (2018) insights on the generativity of slow to Deleuze's (2004) concept of ‘singularities’ the article proposes slow singularities for collective mattering as a conceptual and practical means – as a material-discursive feminist praxis – to contest the un-liveable life of the neoliberal accelerated academy. In doing so, it makes the case for feminist work as an un/dutiful response-ability of nurturing decelerated forms of being which might help reimagine the aims and purpose of the university.

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集体问题的缓慢奇点：加速学院中的新材料女权主义实践

当代大学重视速度、不稳定、竞争和表演性；它通过加速主义、工作集约化和生产力模式运作；它以产生植根于自我商品化的学术主体为导向。这在很大程度上与注重关怀、关系和合作的女权主义伦理和工作实践背道而驰。这篇文章探讨了这些紧张局势，作为推进以下问题的基础：新的物质女权主义方法作为一种道德实践提供了什么来对抗这些破坏性条件？作为回应，它借鉴了 Barad (2007) 和 Haraway (2016) 的工作，提出了一种体现反应能力的物质女权主义伦理，作为教育研究、教学和指导的替代方法。更多，将 Stengers (2018) 对慢生成性的见解与德勒兹 (2004) 的“奇点”概念相关联，文章提出了慢奇点作为集体物质的概念和实践手段——作为一种物质话语的女权主义实践——来对抗不适宜居住的事物新自由主义加速学院的生活。在这样做时，它使女权主义工作成为一种不负责任的反应能力，可以培养减速的存在形式，这可能有助于重新构想大学的目标和宗旨。