This piece is a mobilisation of, and response to, Puar's timely rejuvenation of the idea of debility. I explore some limits of Puar's (2009, 2012) take on debility, arguing for an ecology of sensation as a methodology for thinking and feeling through what I call a political economy of 'slow life'. Thinking through slow lives, those lived in crip time (Küppers, 2014, pp. 51-52), is a way of valuing how 'disabled' bodies and subjectivities experience and reproduce the world. Implicit in this suggestion is the belief that disabled bodies and embodied subjectivities experience and reproduce the world in ways that show up limits in popular sensory and spatial geographies and economies. The idea of a political economy of slow life is my response to Puar's (2012) and Berlant's (2007, 2011) respective suggestions that the biopolitical control of disabled, debilitated, obese and queer populations is effected through a governmental assumption (and production) of a slow death. I also write in response to the important question posed by Goodley et al. (2014, p. 982), who ask, 'what alternatives does disability offer to the slow death of neoliberalism and false politics of austerity?'. In short, I propose a slow temporal ecology of sensory aesthetics that is posited by cultures of intellectual disability as a materialist critique of slow death.