| Description |
1 online resource (346 p.) |
| Series |
Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy Series |
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Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy Series
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1: Keeping Things Going: Maintenance and Philosophy of Technology -- 1.1 Maintenance and Repair Studies -- 1.1.1 Maintenance Beyond Materiality -- 1.1.2 The Invisibility of Maintenance -- 1.1.3 Vulnerability, Fragility and Breakdown -- 1.1.4 Maintenance and Repair as Transformative -- 1.2 Maintenance and Philosophy of Technology: Preliminary Issues -- 1.2.1 The Meaning(s) of Maintenance |
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1.2.2 Surveying the Landscape of Maintenance and Philosophy of Technology -- 1.3 Structure of the Volume -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part I: Metaphysics and Epistemology of Maintenance -- Chapter 2: Maintenance and the Humanness of Infrastructure -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3: Technology in Process: Maintenance and the Metaphysics of Artefacts -- 3.1 The Problematic Status of Change in Western Metaphysics -- 3.2 Maintenance and Modification -- 3.3 From Biology to Technology: Towards a Process Philosophy of Artefacts -- 3.4 Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography |
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Chapter 4: There, I Fixed It! On the Status and Meaning of Repair -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 About Repair -- 4.3 Defining Repair -- 4.4 Repair and Context -- 4.5 Repair Knowledge -- 4.6 The Phenomenology of Informal Repair -- 4.7 Conclusion -- Funding Information -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5: A Standpoint Epistemology of Repair? -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Repair -- 5.3 Knowledge Subordination -- 5.4 First Steps Towards a Theoretically Inspired Standpoint Epistemology of Repair -- 5.5 Standpoint Epistemologies: Main Tenets -- 5.6 A Standpoint Epistemology of Repair? |
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5.7 Repair as Critique -- 5.8 Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 6: Sustainability as Planetary Maintenance -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Maintenance as Technics, Technics as Maintenance -- 6.3 Sustainability as Maintenance -- 6.3.1 Hylomorphism and Verticality -- 6.3.2 Sustainability and Horizontality -- 6.4 Technical Maintenance of Actuality or Potentiality? -- 6.4.1 Simondon versus Hylomorphism -- 6.4.2 Metastability or Elusive Homeostasis -- 6.5 Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 7: Towards a Realist Metaphysics of Software Maintenance -- 7.1 Introduction |
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7.2 The Ontological Dualities of Computational Entities -- 7.3 Katz's Realist Ontology of Composite Objects -- 7.4 Types, Tokens and Software -- 7.5 Software Maintenance -- 7.6 Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 8: Maintaining Perpetual Actuality in the Digital Age?: Simondon's Conception of Maintenance and the Networked Era -- 8.1 The Temporality and Evolution of Technical Objects -- 8.2 Simondon's Philosophy of Maintenance: Maintenance, Education and (Hi)story-Telling -- 8.3 Maintenance in the Networked Era? -- Notes -- Bibliography |
| Summary |
The chapters in this volume explore how attending to maintenance and repair can challenge and complement existing ways of thinking about technology focused on use and design, and introduce new philosophical perspectives on the relationship between technology, time and human practice |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Part II: Ethics, Politics and Aesthetics of Maintenance |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Coeckelbergh, Mark
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| ISBN |
9781040024966 |
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1040024963 |
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