Read more
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.
List of contents
1. Keeping Things Going: Maintenance and Philosophy of Technology Mark Thomas Young and Mark Coeckelbergh Part 1: Metaphysics and Epistemology of Maintenance 2. Maintenance and the Humanness of Infrastructure Steven Vogel 3. Technology in Process: Maintenance and the Metaphysics of Artefacts Mark Thomas Young 4. There, I Fixed It! On the Status and Meaning of Repair Tiago Mesquita Carvalho 5. A Standpoint Epistemology of Repair? Cristina Bernabéu and Jesús Vega-Encabo 6. Sustainability as Planetary Maintenance Jochem Zwier 7. Towards a Realist Metaphysics of Software Maintenance Keith Begley 8. Maintaining Perpetual Actuality in the Digital Age? Simondon’s Conception of Maintenance and the Networked Era Johannes F.M. Schick Part 2: Ethics, Politics and Aesthetics of Maintenance 9. Maintenance of Value and the Value of Maintenance Steffen Steinert 10. An Eco-Ethics for the End of the Anthropocene: Finding Ethical and Sustainable Paths through Consumerism, Disposability and Planned Obsolescence Simon Penny 11. Aesthetic Values in the Maintenance of Urban Technologies Sanna Lehtinen 12. Negotiating Visions of Waste: On the Ethics of Maintaining Waste Infrastructures Joost Alleblas and Benjamin Hofbauer 13. Repairing AI Taylor Stone and Aimee van Wynsberghe
About the author
Mark Thomas Young is a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow in the Philosophy Department at the University of Vienna. His research covers two fields: the Philosophy of Technology, where he focuses on practices of maintenance and the use of automating technologies, and the History and Philosophy of Science, where he explores instruments, craft practices and tacit knowledge in the early modern period.
Mark Coeckelbergh is a full Professor of Philosophy of Media and Technology at the University of Vienna and ERA Chair at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague. He was President of the Society for Philosophy and Technology and is the author of numerous publications including Environmental Skill, AI Ethics, Self-Improvement and The Political Philosophy of AI.
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.
