How temporal countercultures can ignite an ethos of patience--one that resists the techno-solutionism of the "longtermism" movement. To longstorm is to riff across horizons of time, creatively drawing together philosophies, histories, technologies, art, ancestral lineages, geophysical knowledge, even myths of spirits or lives after death--until the imagination is swept into a storm of new perspectives. In
Longstorming, Vincent Ialenti explores how weaving together visions of future worlds can transform how we think, perceive, and live in the here and now. Through atmospheric nature writing and vivid ethnographic storytelling, the book invites readers to slow down, inhabit stillness, and cultivate wide-angle temporal imagination in an Age of Haste defined by digital overstimulation, information overload, and planetary crisis.
The book's case studies reveal philosophical reflection, anthropological curiosity, and ecological wonder as counterforces to the Age of Haste's distractionism: a 10,000-year monumental clock, an arboreal timepiece calibrated to bristlecone pines alive for millennia, an Indigenous knowledge keeper contemplating mortality and deep time in an imagined visit to Finland's nuclear repository in 2121, and more.
Longstorming invites readers not to control the future but to imagine it otherwise--plural, coauthored, and unfinished--and, in doing so, to reimagine themselves.
時間反文化如何點燃一種耐心的精神——抵抗「長期主義」運動的科技解決主義。
所謂 longstorming（長時風暴思考），是跨越不同時間視野進行自由聯想，以創意將哲學、歷史、科技、藝術、祖先傳承、地球物理學知識，甚至關於靈魂或死後生命的神話交織在一起——直到想像力被捲入一場充滿嶄新觀點的風暴之中。在《Longstorming》中，Vincent Ialenti 探索如何將對未來世界的各種想像編織在一起，從而改變我們思考、感知並活在當下的方式。本書透過富有氛圍感的自然書寫與生動鮮明的民族誌敘事，邀請讀者放慢腳步、安住於寂靜之中，並在這個由數位過度刺激、資訊超載與全球性危機所定義的「急躁時代」裡，培養廣角度的時間想像力。
本書的案例研究揭示了哲學省思、人類學式的好奇心與生態學的驚奇，如何成為抵抗「急躁時代」分心文化的力量：一座計時跨度達一萬年的宏偉時鐘；一座以存活數千年的刺果松為校準基準的樹木時鐘；一位原住民族知識守護者，在想像中於 2121 年造訪芬蘭的核廢料地下儲存設施，並思索死亡與深邃時間；以及更多案例。《Longstorming》邀請讀者不要試圖掌控未來，而是以另一種方式想像未來——讓它呈現多元面貌，由眾人共同創作，並且始終未完成——並在這個過程中重新想像自己。
Vincent Ialenti is a cultural anthropologist, former US Department of Energy official, and Senior Research Fellow at Tampere University. He is the author of Deep Time Reckoning. His research has been supported by the US National Science Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, and the Berggruen Institute, and his writing has been featured by the BBC, NPR, Scientific American, Forbes, Physics Today, Psyche, and Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
Vincent Ialenti 是一位文化人類學家、前美國能源部官員，也是 Tampere University 的資深研究員。他著有《Deep Time Reckoning》。他的研究曾獲得美國國家科學基金會（US National Science Foundation）、Mellon Foundation、MacArthur Foundation 及 Berggruen Institute 的支持；他的文章則曾刊登於 BBC、NPR、Scientific American、Forbes、Physics Today、Psyche，以及《Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists》。
