Introduction : insiders' manual to breakdown / Francisco Martínez -- Head, heart, hand : on contradiction, contingency and repair / Caitlin DeSilvey -- Underwater, still life : multi-species engagements with the art abject of a wasted American warship / Joshua O. Reno -- Beyond the sparkle zones / Kathleen Stewart -- 'Till death do us part' : the making of home through holding onto objects / Tomás Errázuriz -- 'The lady is not here' : repairing Tita Meme as a telecare user / Tomás Sánchez Criado -- In the house of un-things : decay and deferral in a vacated Bulgarian home / Martin Demant Frederiksen -- Undisciplined surfaces / Mateusz Laszczkowski -- A ride on the elevator : infrastructures of brokenness and repair in Georgia / Tamta Khalvashi -- Don't fix the puddle : a puddle archive as ethnographic account of sidewalk assemblages / Mirja Busch and Ignacio Farías -- What is in a hole? : voids out of place and politics below the state in Georgia / Francisco Martínez -- Maintaining whose road? / Agnieszka Joniak-Lüthi -- Dirtscapes : contest over value, garbage and belonging in Istanbul / Aylin Yildirim Tschoepe -- Repairing Russia / Michał Murawski -- Village vintage in southern Norway : revitalisation and vernacular entrepreneurship in culture heritage tourism / Sarah Holst Kjaer -- A story of time keepers / Jérôme Denis and David Pontille -- Keeping them 'Swiss' : the transfer and appropriation of techniques for luxury watch repair in Hong Kong / Hervé Munz -- Lost battles of de-bobbling / Magdalena Crăciun -- Small mutinies in the comfortable slot : the new environmentalism as repair / Eeva Berglund -- Why stories about broken down snowmobiles can teach you a lot about life in the Arctic tundra / Aimar Ventsel -- The imperative of repair : fixing bikes, for free / Simon Batterbury and Tim Dant -- Repair and responsibility : the art of Doris Salcedo / Siobhan Kattago -- Social repair and (re)creation : broken relationships and a path forward for Austrian Holocaust survivors / Katja Seidel -- Living switches / Wladimir Sgibnev -- Brokenness and normality in design culture / Adam Drazin -- And then you see yourself disappear / Jason Pine -- Epilogue : this mess we're in, or part of / Patrick Laviolette.
Summary:
"What does it mean to claim that something is broken? What is the connection between tinkering and innovation? And how much tolerance for failure do our societies have? Exploring some of the ways in which repair practices and perceptions of brokenness vary culturally, Repair, Brokenness, Breakthrough argues that repair is an attempt to extend the life of things as well as an answer to failures, gaps, wrongdoings and leftovers. The set of contributions illustrates the strong affective power hidden in situations of disrepair and repair; broken objects often bring strong emotions into play, but also energising reactions of creative action"-- Provided by publisher.
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