Abstract
Design and maintenance, as categories, are related through their presumed contrasting temporalities. What do we learn about these purifications as they play out over the course of a technological object’s lifetime? Drawing on fieldwork examining the operations of a longstanding spacecraft, Cohn exposes definitions of repair and design through their temporal and affective alignment.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Journal | continent. |
| Volume | R3PAIR |
| Issue number | 6.1 |
| Pages (from-to) | 4-12 |
| ISSN | 2159-9920 |
| Publication status | Published - 2017 |
Keywords
- repair
- maintenance
- design practice
- lifetimes
- anthropology
- STS