Maintenance and Philosophy of Technology: Keeping Things Going

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Keeping Things Going: Maintenance and Philosophy of Technology
	1.1 Maintenance and Repair Studies
		1.1.1 Maintenance Beyond Materiality
		1.1.2 The Invisibility of Maintenance
		1.1.3 Vulnerability, Fragility and Breakdown
		1.1.4 Maintenance and Repair as Transformative
	1.2 Maintenance and Philosophy of Technology: Preliminary Issues
		1.2.1 The Meaning(s) of Maintenance
		1.2.2 Surveying the Landscape of Maintenance and Philosophy of Technology
	1.3 Structure of the Volume
	Notes
	Bibliography
Part I: Metaphysics and Epistemology of Maintenance
	Chapter 2: Maintenance and the Humanness of Infrastructure
		I
		II
		III
		IV
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 3: Technology in Process: Maintenance and the Metaphysics of Artefacts
		3.1 The Problematic Status of Change in Western Metaphysics
		3.2 Maintenance and Modification
		3.3 From Biology to Technology: Towards a Process Philosophy of Artefacts
		3.4 Conclusion
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 4: There, I Fixed It! On the Status and Meaning of Repair
		4.1 Introduction
		4.2 About Repair
		4.3 Defining Repair
		4.4 Repair and Context
		4.5 Repair Knowledge
		4.6 The Phenomenology of Informal Repair
		4.7 Conclusion
		Funding Information
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 5: A Standpoint Epistemology of Repair?
		5.1 Introduction
		5.2 Repair
		5.3 Knowledge Subordination
		5.4 First Steps Towards a Theoretically Inspired Standpoint Epistemology of Repair
		5.5 Standpoint Epistemologies: Main Tenets
		5.6 A Standpoint Epistemology of Repair?
		5.7 Repair as Critique
		5.8 Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 6: Sustainability as Planetary Maintenance
		6.1 Introduction
		6.2 Maintenance as Technics, Technics as Maintenance
		6.3 Sustainability as Maintenance
			6.3.1 Hylomorphism and Verticality
			6.3.2 Sustainability and Horizontality
		6.4 Technical Maintenance of Actuality or Potentiality?
			6.4.1 Simondon versus Hylomorphism
			6.4.2 Metastability or Elusive Homeostasis
		6.5 Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 7: Towards a Realist Metaphysics of Software Maintenance
		7.1 Introduction
		7.2 The Ontological Dualities of Computational Entities
		7.3 Katz’s Realist Ontology of Composite Objects
		7.4 Types, Tokens and Software
		7.5 Software Maintenance
		7.6 Conclusion
		Acknowledgements
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 8: Maintaining Perpetual Actuality in the Digital Age?: Simondon’s Conception of Maintenance and the Networked Era
		8.1 The Temporality and Evolution of Technical Objects
		8.2 Simondon’s Philosophy of Maintenance: Maintenance, Education and (Hi)story-Telling
		8.3 Maintenance in the Networked Era?
		Notes
		Bibliography
Part II: Ethics, Politics and Aesthetics of Maintenance
	Chapter 9: Maintenance of Value and the Value of Maintenance
		9.1 Introduction
		9.2 Maintenance: Beyond Design, Hardware and Conservation
			9.2.1 Maintenance: Beyond Design
			9.2.2 Maintenance: Beyond Hardware
			9.2.3 Maintenance: Beyond Conservation
		9.3 Maintaining Technology, Maintaining Value: The Case of Socio-technical Systems
		9.4 Technology through Time: Maintenance and Value Domains
		9.5 Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 10: An Eco-Ethics for the End of the Anthropocene: Finding Ethical and Sustainable Paths through Consumerism, Disposability and Planned Obsolescence
		10.1 A Storm Is Blowing in From Paradise
		10.2 Swimming in the Global Waste Stream
			10.2.1 Technological ‘Progress’
			10.2.2 (Fast) Fashion
			10.2.3 Things Fall Apart
			10.2.4 ‘Disposable’ Packaging and Single-Use Plastic
			10.2.5 There Is No Unscrambling Some Eggs
			10.2.6 Recycling – The Big Lie
			10.2.7 Growth and Degrowth
			10.2.8 The End of the Anthropocene
		10.3 Bricolage Aesthetics: Maintenance, Repair and Salvage
			10.3.1 Salvage Eco-ethics
			10.3.2 An Autobiographical Intermezzo
			10.3.3 Shoes and Socks
		10.4 Doing the Eco-ethics of Salvage
			10.4.1 Life in the Workshop – Repair, Bricolage and Improvisation
			10.4.2 Taxonomy, Organisation and Sorting in the Shop
			10.4.3 Pathological Maintenance
			10.4.4 The Obsessive Bricoleur
			10.4.5 Hoarding, Collecting, Exhibiting and Purging
		10.5 Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 11: Aesthetic Values in the Maintenance of Urban Technologies
		11.1 Introduction
		11.2 Traces of the Past, Traces of the Future
		11.3 Aesthetics of Care in Maintenance Practices
		11.4 Deliberation of Aesthetic Values
		11.5 Conclusions
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 12: Negotiating Visions of Waste: On the Ethics of Maintaining Waste Infrastructures
		12.1 Introduction: Waste, Ethics and Maintenance
		12.2 Maintenance and Infrastructure
		12.3 Reflexive Repair and Dynamic Maintenance
		12.4 A Dynamic Concept of Waste
		12.5 Modern Waste Management: An Institutional Perspective
		12.6 Modern Imaginary of Waste
		12.7 Value Change
		12.8 Some Politics of Waste Infrastructures in the EU
		12.9 Waste Affirmation and Municipal Solid Waste Management
		12.10 Conclusion
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 13: Repairing AI
		13.1 Introduction
		13.2 Sustainable AI
		13.3 Maintenance, Repair and Sustainable AI
			13.3.1 AI for Sustainability as Acts of Repair
			13.3.2 Repairing AI
		13.4 Conclusion
		Notes
		References
Index