Fragilities
essays on the politics, ethics, and aesthetics of maintenance and repair
$161.96
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
26 May 2025
Summary
Fragilities: Embracing the Cracks in a Broken World
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, Jérôme Denis, and David Pontille argue that we need to pay attenti…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262550758 |
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| ISBN-10: | 026255075X |
| Series: | Infrastructures |
| Author: | Fernando Dominguez Rubio, Jerome Denis |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 26 May 2025 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
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About The Author
Fernando Dominguez Rubio
Jerome 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 Jerome 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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