Fragilities
Essays on the Politics, Ethics and Aesthetics of Maintenance and Repair
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Fragilities brings together scholars to rethink fragility as a productive lens for analyzing maintenance, repair, and care practices.
Edited by Denis, Pontille, and Fernando Domínguez Rubio, the volume combines empirical studies and theoretical reflections to show how fragility shapes attention, material relations, and political obligations.
The book features disciplinary variety and conversational pieces that test fragility across case studies, including urban infrastructure, art, and mundane maintenance.
It foregrounds minute practices, the tensions between stability and becoming, and how maintenance exposes often-invisible labor and power relations.
The collection also adopts experimental editorial forms—pairing chapters with conversations—to deepen interdisciplinary engagement.
Edited by Denis, Pontille, and Fernando Domínguez Rubio, the volume combines empirical studies and theoretical reflections to show how fragility shapes attention, material relations, and political obligations.
The book features disciplinary variety and conversational pieces that test fragility across case studies, including urban infrastructure, art, and mundane maintenance.
It foregrounds minute practices, the tensions between stability and becoming, and how maintenance exposes often-invisible labor and power relations.
The collection also adopts experimental editorial forms—pairing chapters with conversations—to deepen interdisciplinary engagement.
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248 - Maintenance & Repair (feat. Jérôme Denis & David Pontille)
