Dear all,
Hope this email finds everyone well. We’d like to announce the next session
of the Maintenance and Philosophy of Technology SIG this coming Thursday.
In this session we’re very excited to welcome Lara Houston, who’ll be
giving a talk which draws connections between her earlier work in
maintenance and repair studies to current geopolitical and environmental
concerns. If you'd like a link for the talk, please email me at
mark@markthomasyoung.net
Best,
Mark
Planetary Computing and Repair
Lara Houston (Anglia Ruskin University)
Thursday 9th May 2024 (1800-1915 UTC+1)
Abstract: In this talk, I’ll revisit some of my previous work in the
sociology of repair, using that to trace a broadening of the repair and
maintenance studies field from the situated practices of repair towards
experiments with wider conceptions of repair and reparation. I develop some
thoughts here about the scales that repair produces, from my own initial
interest in repair as a facet of (unevenly) globalised technoogies, to my
current concern with planetary problems of environmental degradation. I’m
interested in understanding how repair takes shape in these newer
evocations of planetary thought and practice.
(In order to avoid confusion regarding the timing of the talks - the
following table clarifies when the talks begin in different locations)
Amsterdam 7:00pm
London 6:00pm
Toronto (New York) 1:00pm
San Francisco 10:00am
Remaining Schedule for 2024
June 13th 2024 Reka Gal (University of Toronto)
“SpaceX’s Starbase, or Breaking Things on the Rio Grande and Beyond”
August 8th 2024 Mark Thomas Young (University of Bergen)
“How the Golden Gate Bridge got its Nets: Maintenance and the Politics of
Artifacts"
September 12th 2024 Yuriko Saito (Rhode Island School of Design)
“The Aesthetics of Care: Practice in Everyday Life”
Mark Thomas Young
Associate Professor
University of Bergen
https://univie.academia.edu/MarkThomasYoung
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