[Themaintainers] Talk: Christopher Henke "Repair, Maintenance and Infrastructure Studies" (Maintenance & Philosophy of Technology SIG) Thursday 10th august (1800-1915 UTC +1)

[mark young]

Dear all,


Hope this email finds everyone well. We’d like to announce the next session
of the Maintenance and Philosophy of Technology SIG on Thursday 10th August
(1800-1915 UTC+1). In this session, we’re very excited to welcome
Christopher Henke who’ll be talking about the emergence of maintenance and
repair studies in relation to studies of infrastructure from his latest
book. If you'd like to receive a link for the talk, please send me an email
at mark at markthomasyoung.net


Best,

Mark


*Repair, Maintenance and Infrastructure Studies: The Promise (and perils?)
of an Emerging Field*

Christopher Henke (Colgate University)

Thursday 10th August (1800-1915 UTC+1)

In this talk I discuss the often hidden but pervasive and enduring
influence of infrastructures for shaping the social and material reality of
modern life. Infrastructures such as power lines, roads, and food systems
support our everyday activities, but they are also important sources of
economic and symbolic capital for the power elite. These properties and
consequences of infrastructures make them both hard to change (due to the
investments and resources embedded in them) and, at the same time,
essential sites for transformation (due to the climate crisis and pervasive
inequalities built into infrastructural systems). I illustrate my argument
with examples from my recent book, Repairing Infrastructures: The
Maintenance of Materiality and Power (co-authored with Benjamin Sims; MIT
Press 2020).

(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
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