m3a,1 (allegory of traditional scholarship)

As far as our own impression of fast or slow reading of the Arcades Project in the scholarly context, m3a,1 offers an allegory in that as we slow our reading down we step more and more outside of the general work ethic encoded into contemporary scholarly activity. This work ethic can be compared to the "stringent work ethic and moral doctrine of Calvinism" and as placed in a "time frozen in contemplation," whereas a slower reading that opens more into the multiple levels of experience contained in the Arcades Project becomes a version of a negative idleness, an access to the "vita contemplativa" but to that extent difficult to account for within the dominant modalities of knowledge production.