Slow Time and Craft in Platform Capitalism : From Affirmation to Re-Temporalisation

Bajič, Blaž (author)

The article interrogates the thematisation and mobilisation of “slow time” in contemporary craft scholarship. It argues that slowness often displaces the critique of capitalism as a temporal regime. Focusing on platformised craft, it shows how promises of autonomy and “time sovereignty” are converted into new forms of temporal discipline.

• Language: English
• Keywords: craft, slow time, platform capitalism, platformisation, temporal discipline, critique of capitalism, ethnology, anthropology, arts and crafts, time (philosophy), capitalism
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FF - Faculty of Arts
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Publication date: 01.07.2026
• Year: 2026
• Number of pages: 15 str.
• Numbering: Letn. 4, št. 2
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-185073
• UDC: 39:745/749:330.342.14
• ISSN on article: 2820-6088
• DOI: 10.4312/svetovi.4.2.16-30
• COBISS.SI-ID: 285636867
• Publication date in RUL: 22.07.2026

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Svetovi
• Publisher: Založba Univerze v Ljubljani
• ISSN: 2820-6088
• COBISS.SI-ID: 148550403

Licences

• License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
• Description: A Creative Commons license that bans commercial use and requires the user to release any modified works under this license.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Title: Počasni čas in rokodelstvo v platformnem kapitalizmu : od afirmacije k retemporalizacij

Abstract

Članek obravnava tematizacijo in mobilizacijo »počasnega časa« v sodobnih raziskavah rokodelstva. Pokaže, kako afirmacija počasnosti pogosto nadomesti kritiko kapitalizma kot časovnega režima. Na primeru platformiziranega rokodelstva analizira, kako obljube avtonomije in »časovne suverenosti« prehajajo v nove oblike časovne discipline.

• Keywords: rokodelstvo, počasni čas, platformni kapitalizem, platformizacija, časovna disciplina, kritika kapitalizma, etnologija, antropologija, umetna obrt, čas (filozofija), kapitalizem

Projects

• Funder: ARIS - Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency
• Project number: P6-0187-2022
• Name: Etnološke raziskave kulturnih znanj, praks in oblik socialnosti