Full Description
What does it mean to claim that something is broken? What is the connection between tinkering and innovation? And how much tolerance for failure do our societies have? Exploring some of the ways in which repair practices and perceptions of brokenness vary culturally, Repair, Brokenness, Breakthrough argues that repair is an attempt to extend the life of things as well as an answer to failures, gaps, wrongdoings and leftovers. The set of contributions illustrates the strong affective power hidden in situations of disrepair and repair; broken objects often bring strong emotions into play, but also energising reactions of creative action.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Introduction: Insiders' Manual to Breakdown
Francisco Martinez
Head, Hand, Heart: On Contradiction, Contingency and Repair
Caitlin DeSilvey
Chapter 1. Underwater, Still Life: Multi-species Engagements with the Art Abject of a Wasted American Warship
Joshua O. Reno
Beyond the Sparkle Zones
Kathleen Stewart
Chapter 2. "Till Death Do Us Part": The Making of Home Through Holding onto Objects
Tomas Errazuriz
"The Lady is Not There": Repairing Tita Meme as a Telecare User
Tomas Sanchez Criado
Chapter 3. In the House of Un-Things: Decay and Deferral in a Vacated Bulgarian Home
Martin Demant Frederiksen
Undisciplined Surfaces
Mateusz Laszczkowski
Chapter 4. A Ride on the Elevator. Infrastructures of Brokenness and Repair in Georgia
Tamta Khalvashi
Don't Fix the Puddle: A Puddle Archive as Ethnographic Account of Sidewalk Assemblages
Mirja Busch and Ignacio Farias
Chapter 5. What is in a Hole? Failure's Work in Georgia
Francisco Martinez
Maintaining Whose Road?
Agnieszka Joniak-Luthi
Chapter 6. Dirtscapes: Contest over Value, Garbage and Belonging in Istanbul
Aylin Yildirim Tschoepe
Repairing Russia
Michal Murawski
Chapter 7. Village Vintage in Southern Norway: Revitalisation and Vernacular Entrepreneurship in Culture Heritage Tourism
Sarah Holst Kjaer
A Story of Time Keepers
Jerome Denis and David Pontille
Chapter 8. Keeping Them "Swiss". The Transfer and Appropriation of Techniques for Luxury Watch Repair in Hong-Kong
Herve Munz
Lost Battles of De-bobbling
Magdalena Craciun
Chapter 9. Small Mutinies in the Comfortable Slot: The New Environmentalism as Repair
Eeva Berglund
Why Stories About the Broken Down Snowmobiles Can Teach You A Lot About the Life in the Arctic Tundra
Aimar Ventsel
Chapter 10. The Imperative of Repair: Fixing Bikes - For Free
Simon Batterbury and Tim Dant
Repair and Responsibility: The Art of Doris Salcedo
Siobhan Kattago
Chapter 11. Repair and (Re)creation: Broken Relationships and a Path Forward for Austrian Holocaust Survivors
Katja Seidel
Living Switches
Wladimir Sgibnev
Chapter 12. Questions of Brokenness in a World of Movement
Adam Drazin
And Then You See Yourself Disappear (in Iceland)
Jason Pine
Epilogue: This Mess We're In, Or Part Of
Patrick Laviolette
Index
