[Themaintainers] Themaintainers Digest, Vol 3, Issue 4
Elise
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Fri May 22 09:15:46 EDT 2015
I'm interested, even if I can't read the whole text.
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> 1. Re: book, Maintainers reading group? (Evan Hepler-Smith)
> 2. Re: book, Maintainers reading group? (Lee Vinsel)
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> Date: Fri, 22 May 2015 08:00:15 -0400
> From: Evan Hepler-Smith <ehepler at princeton.edu>
> To: themaintainers at lists.stevens.edu
> Subject: Re: [Themaintainers] book, Maintainers reading group?
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> Dear all,
>
> I'd be interested as well!
>
> Evan
>
> On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 3:32 PM, Kate McDonald <kmcdonald at history.ucsb.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I'd be interested. I'll be traveling until mid July, but after that I'm
>> around and looking to read exciting books about infrastructure!
>>
>> Best,
>> Kate
>>
>> On May 21, 2015, at 7:38 AM, Bradley Fidler wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I would be up for this if there are articles in the mix -- something to
>> which I can more reasonably commit during an over-committed summer :)
>>
>> Brad
>>
>>> On Thursday, May 21, 2015, Lee Vinsel <lee.vinsel at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Angie,
>>>
>>> I think this is a great idea, and I have always wanted to try out a
>>> virtual seminar/reading group. Is anyone else on the list interested? If
>>> not, I'm fine with it being just us two.
>>>
>>> Lee
>>>
>>> On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 10:02 AM, Boyce, Angie Marlene <
>>> aboyce at hsph.harvard.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I just saw the announcement for a new book that looks relevant for the
>>>> folks on this list (info below), and that got me thinking that it might be
>>>> fun to have a Maintainers virtual summer reading group. Is anyone else
>>>> interested in that? (I?m not committed to this book in particular.)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/7705.html?utm_source=SilverpopMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=05.20.2015%20(1
>>>> )
>>>>
>>>> Any highway commuter who has wasted hours stuck in traffic can see the
>>>> cracks in the United States' transportation system, as can any airline
>>>> passenger who has been stranded overnight in an airport. Yet while many
>>>> agree that the need for infrastructure change is urgent, where is the sense
>>>> of urgency to make these changes happen?
>>>>
>>>> That's one of the questions Harvard Business School Professor of
>>>> Business Administration Rosabeth Moss Kanter
>>>> <http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/profile.aspx?facId=6486> asks in her
>>>> book published today, Move: Putting America's Infrastructure Back in
>>>> the Lead. <http://books.wwnorton.com/books/Move/>
>>>>
>>>> "Given so many situations and factors that should arouse enormous
>>>> concern, why is it so hard to secure public support for long-term
>>>> infrastructure investments and get Congress to vote for them?" Kanter
>>>> writes. "I think it's a structural issue. Silos, narrow interests, and
>>>> fragmentation mute outrage. Perhaps we're stuck not only with aging
>>>> infrastructure but also with obsolete ways of talking about it."
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Assistant Professor
>>> Program on Science and Technology Studies
>>> College of Arts and Letters
>>> Stevens Institute of Technology
>>> Hoboken, NJ 07030
>>> leevinsel.com
>>> Twitter: @STS_News
>>
>>
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>> ********************************
>> Kate McDonald
>>
>> Assistant Professor
>> Department of History (HSSB 4001)
>> University of California, Santa Barbara
>> Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9410
>>
>> Tel: (805) 893-4505 (main office)
>> Fax: (805) 893-7671 (main office)
>> E-mail: kmcdonald at history.ucsb.edu
>>
>>
>>
>>
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> Evan Hepler-Smith
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> Princeton University
> 129 Dickinson Hall
> Princeton, NJ 08544
> ehepler at princeton.edu
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> Date: Fri, 22 May 2015 08:23:34 -0400
> From: Lee Vinsel <lee.vinsel at gmail.com>
> To: "themaintainers at lists.stevens.edu"
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> Subject: Re: [Themaintainers] book, Maintainers reading group?
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> All,
>
> I don't see why we couldn't meet virtually a few times. Perhaps the first
> time we could focus on a few conceptual articles (Graham and Thrift's "Out
> of Order: Understanding Repair and Maintenance" and Christopher Henke's
> "The Mechanics of Workplace Order: Toward a Sociology of Repair"?). Then
> Brad and others who can't commit to reading a book could join. Next, we
> could read that book to go a bit deeper into a contemporary argument
> about/for infrastructure.
>
> L
>
> On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 8:00 AM, Evan Hepler-Smith <ehepler at princeton.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I'd be interested as well!
>>
>> Evan
>>
>> On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 3:32 PM, Kate McDonald <kmcdonald at history.ucsb.edu
>>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> I'd be interested. I'll be traveling until mid July, but after that I'm
>>> around and looking to read exciting books about infrastructure!
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Kate
>>>
>>> On May 21, 2015, at 7:38 AM, Bradley Fidler wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I would be up for this if there are articles in the mix -- something to
>>> which I can more reasonably commit during an over-committed summer :)
>>>
>>> Brad
>>>
>>>> On Thursday, May 21, 2015, Lee Vinsel <lee.vinsel at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi Angie,
>>>>
>>>> I think this is a great idea, and I have always wanted to try out a
>>>> virtual seminar/reading group. Is anyone else on the list interested? If
>>>> not, I'm fine with it being just us two.
>>>>
>>>> Lee
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 10:02 AM, Boyce, Angie Marlene <
>>>> aboyce at hsph.harvard.edu> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I just saw the announcement for a new book that looks relevant for
>>>>> the folks on this list (info below), and that got me thinking that it might
>>>>> be fun to have a Maintainers virtual summer reading group. Is anyone else
>>>>> interested in that? (I?m not committed to this book in particular.)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/7705.html?utm_source=SilverpopMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=05.20.2015%20(1
>>>>> )
>>>>>
>>>>> Any highway commuter who has wasted hours stuck in traffic can see
>>>>> the cracks in the United States' transportation system, as can any airline
>>>>> passenger who has been stranded overnight in an airport. Yet while many
>>>>> agree that the need for infrastructure change is urgent, where is the sense
>>>>> of urgency to make these changes happen?
>>>>>
>>>>> That's one of the questions Harvard Business School Professor of
>>>>> Business Administration Rosabeth Moss Kanter
>>>>> <http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/profile.aspx?facId=6486> asks in her
>>>>> book published today, Move: Putting America's Infrastructure Back in
>>>>> the Lead. <http://books.wwnorton.com/books/Move/>
>>>>>
>>>>> "Given so many situations and factors that should arouse enormous
>>>>> concern, why is it so hard to secure public support for long-term
>>>>> infrastructure investments and get Congress to vote for them?" Kanter
>>>>> writes. "I think it's a structural issue. Silos, narrow interests, and
>>>>> fragmentation mute outrage. Perhaps we're stuck not only with aging
>>>>> infrastructure but also with obsolete ways of talking about it."
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Assistant Professor
>>>> Program on Science and Technology Studies
>>>> College of Arts and Letters
>>>> Stevens Institute of Technology
>>>> Hoboken, NJ 07030
>>>> leevinsel.com
>>>> Twitter: @STS_News
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Sent from my mobile device; brfidler.com
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>>>
>>> ********************************
>>> Kate McDonald
>>>
>>> Assistant Professor
>>> Department of History (HSSB 4001)
>>> University of California, Santa Barbara
>>> Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9410
>>>
>>> Tel: (805) 893-4505 (main office)
>>> Fax: (805) 893-7671 (main office)
>>> E-mail: kmcdonald at history.ucsb.edu
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
>> --
>> Evan Hepler-Smith
>> Doctoral Candidate, History of Science
>> Princeton University
>> 129 Dickinson Hall
>> Princeton, NJ 08544
>> ehepler at princeton.edu
>> 339.203.1096
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> Stevens Institute of Technology
> Hoboken, NJ 07030
> leevinsel.com
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