[Themaintainers] New book announcement — Fragilities: Essays on the Politics, Ethics, and Aesthetics of Maintenance and Repair

[Jérôme DENIS]

Dear all,

Fernando Domínguez Rubio, David Pontille and myself are delighted to announce the publication of our edited volume:

Fragilities: Essays on the Politics, Ethics, and Aesthetics of Maintenance and Repair by the MIT press.

Contributors: Annemarie Mol, Myriam Winance, Lucy Suchman, Marisol de la Cadena+Santiago Martínez Medina, Max Liboiron, María Puig de la Bellacasa, Tomás Sánchez Criado+Vicent Duclos, Thomas Cousins, Geof Bowker, Chandra Mukerji, Cymene Howe, Steve Jackson, Jérôme Denis, David Pontille, and Fernando Domínguez Rubio


The book is available in an OPEN-ACCESS version that you can access in this link:
https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edited-volume/5957/FragilitiesEssays-on-the-Politics-Ethics-and

If you want the (paid) physical copy, you can use the below code for discounts on orders placed through PenguinRandomHouse.com.
READMIT20 (this code offers 20% off at any time after publication)

All the best,


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BLURB

At a time when it may be easy to fall into a defeatist melancholia, if not outright pessimism, fragility offers an opportunity for a different kind of world-making. In Fragilities, Fernando Domínguez Rubio, Jérôme Denis, and David Pontille argue that we need to pay attention to the moments when the bodies, things, and worlds we inhabit begin to crack and reveal their fragility; it is in these instabilities that we can gain precious access to alternative ways of being. The essays in this collection explore how the work of care, maintenance, and repair compose with, rather than struggle against, fragilities.

Fragility forces us to reckon with the precariousness and contingency of life and to use this reckoning as a starting point to build and nurture life-affirming politics and ethics. The book explores fragility in four categories—bodies, environments, labor, and politics—and proposes to consider in each situation what/who is rendered visible, what/who is made absent, what is considered normal, and what is deemed strong and stable versus what is deemed fragile. The volume includes a strong line-up of leading and emerging scholars from a wide array of disciplines, including anthropology, social studies of science, disabilities studies, and sociology.


Jérôme DENIS
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new books in 2025
J. Denis & D. Pontille The care of things<https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=the-care-of-things-ethics-and-politics-of-maintenance--9781509562381> (Polity Books)
F. Domínguez Rubio, J. Denis, & D. Pontille (eds) Fragitilies<https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262550758/fragilities/> (MIT Press)


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