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Repairing Infrastructures

The Maintenance of Materiality and Power

Part of Infrastructures

Author Christopher R. Henke, Benjamin Sims
$31.99 US
The MIT Press
On sale Oct 13, 2020 | 9780262360685
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An investigation of the causes and consequences of the strange, ambivalent, and increasingly central role of infrastructure repair in modern life.

Infrastructures--communication, food, transportation, energy, and information--are all around us, and their enduring function and influence depend on the constant work of repair. In this book, Christopher Henke and Benjamin Sims explore the causes and consequences of the strange, ambivalent, and increasingly central role of infrastructure repair in modern life. Henke and Sims offer examples, from local to global, to investigate not only the role of repair in maintaining infrastructures themselves but also the social and political orders that are created and sustained through them.
Acknowledgements
Chapter One. Introduction: A Toolkit for Understanding Infrastructure and Repair
Chapter Two. Cold Offices and Hot Airplanes: Local Negotiations Over Repair
Chapter Three. Bridging Scales: The Local Negotiation of Systemic Repair
Chapter Four. From Versailles to Armageddon: Building and Maintaining the Infrastructural State
Chapter Five. Confronting the Anthropocene: Reflexive Repair in an Age of Global Infrastructures
Notes
Bibliography
Index
"[R]eaders looking for an engaging contribution to the emerging field of repair studies will love this small volume. Henke and Sims introduce many of the current perspectives on repair, maintainers, and the important role they play in society. Furthermore, with their notions of 'repair as maintenance,' 'repair as transformation,' and 'reflexive repair,' they add an interesting new set of concepts to the discussion."—Technology and Culture

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An investigation of the causes and consequences of the strange, ambivalent, and increasingly central role of infrastructure repair in modern life.

Infrastructures--communication, food, transportation, energy, and information--are all around us, and their enduring function and influence depend on the constant work of repair. In this book, Christopher Henke and Benjamin Sims explore the causes and consequences of the strange, ambivalent, and increasingly central role of infrastructure repair in modern life. Henke and Sims offer examples, from local to global, to investigate not only the role of repair in maintaining infrastructures themselves but also the social and political orders that are created and sustained through them.

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Acknowledgements
Chapter One. Introduction: A Toolkit for Understanding Infrastructure and Repair
Chapter Two. Cold Offices and Hot Airplanes: Local Negotiations Over Repair
Chapter Three. Bridging Scales: The Local Negotiation of Systemic Repair
Chapter Four. From Versailles to Armageddon: Building and Maintaining the Infrastructural State
Chapter Five. Confronting the Anthropocene: Reflexive Repair in an Age of Global Infrastructures
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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"[R]eaders looking for an engaging contribution to the emerging field of repair studies will love this small volume. Henke and Sims introduce many of the current perspectives on repair, maintainers, and the important role they play in society. Furthermore, with their notions of 'repair as maintenance,' 'repair as transformation,' and 'reflexive repair,' they add an interesting new set of concepts to the discussion."—Technology and Culture

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