Dear All,
We’re pleased to announce the next installment of the SPT maintenance and
philosophy special interest group. In this session, we’re excited to
welcome Andrea Gammon (TU Delft) who’ll be sharing her research exploring
the place maintenance holds within contemporary environmental ethics and
environmental philosophy. In her talk, Andrea will delve deeper into the
reasons behind the neglect of the topic of maintenance within these fields,
examining in particular how implicit ways of conceptualising technology and
its relation to nature has discouraged scholarship from drawing connections
between the practices by which we keep technologies going over time and the
management of natural resources and environments. Andrea’s talk marks the
final session of the 2024 schedule for our group – if you’d like to
receive
a link for the talk, please email me at mark@markthomasyoung.net
Best,
Mark
“Environmental Philosophy and the Absence of Maintenance"
Andrea Gammon (Technical University of Delft)
Thursday 12th December 2024 1800-1915 UTC+1
Abstract: This article considers the general absence of the theme of
maintenance in environmental ethics and philosophy. Despite an
environmental orientation at least partially motivating much of the growing
literature on repair and maintenance, there is a lack of work that brings
environmental topics, sites, applications, or infrastructures under direct
consideration. I interrogate why the notion of maintenance is missing from
environmental ethics and philosophy, eventually arguing that the way
technologies have been conceptualized in the environmental ethics and
philosophy literature precludes the possibilities of maintenance in two
ways. I suggest that maintenance is a promising and apt lens for thinking
through human environmental relationships, which are ongoing,
co-constructive, and laborious.
(In order to avoid confusion regarding the timing of the talks - the
following table clarifies when the talks begin in different locations)
New York: 12:00
San Francisco: 09:00
London: 17:00
Amsterdam: 18:00
Mark Thomas Young
Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Oslo
https://uio.academia.edu/MarkThomasYoung
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