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The Disappearing Art of Maintenance
We, too, do not have the luxury of ignorance. Our systems serve us well for the most part. But they will need to be revamped for and by the next generation — the generation of the young people at the rehearsal dinner — to accommodate our rising population, technological progress, increasing affluence, and climate change.
The great European cathedral... See more
The great European cathedral... See more
Charles C. Mann • We Live Like Royalty and Don’t Know It
Historian Scott Gabriel Knowles proposes that we think of the “deferred maintenance” of public infrastructures as slow-motion disasters, which sustain the oppression of marginalized and underserved populations. 23 Summers, meanwhile, emphasizes the “debt burden on the next generation,” since the cost of fixing the world compounds over time.
Places Journal • Maintenance and Care
we inhabit a culture that privileges novelty and growth over the cyclical and the regenerative. Our very idea of productivity is premised on the idea of producing something new, whereas we do not tend to see maintenance and care as productive in the same way.
Jenny Odell • How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
When systems that were designed for resilience are optimized instead for efficiency, they break.
Kyla Scanlon • The Most Valuable Commodity in the World is Friction
To fill in the gaps in this literature, to draw connections among different disciplines, is an act of repair or, simply, of taking care — connecting threads, mending holes, amplifying quiet voices.