Fragilities
Essays on the Politics, Ethics, and Aesthetics of Maintenance and Repair
$169.51
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
27 May 2025
Summary
An original essay collection that explores the generative dimensions of fragility, which can help reveal new life-affirming politics and ethics.
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 Dominguez Rubio, Jer me Denis, and David Pontille argue that we need to pay attention to the moments when the bodies, things, and worlds we inhab…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262550758 |
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| ISBN-10: | 026255075X |
| Author: | Fernando Dominguez Rubio, Jerome Denis |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 27 May 2025 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 152mm x 229mm |
| Series: | Infrastructures |
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Authors
Jer me Denis is Professor at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) in the Center for the Sociology of Innovation, Mines Paris-PSL. With David Pontille, he is the author of The Care of Things: Ethics and Politics of Maintenance.
David Pontille is Senior Researcher at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), in the Center for the Sociology of Innovation, Mines Paris-PSL. With Jer me Denis, he is the author of The Care of Things: Ethics and Politics of Maintenance.
Fernando Dominguez Rubio is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication, University of California, San Diego. His most recent book is Still Life: Ecologies of the Modern Imagination at the Art Museum.
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