Capitalism Unwrapped
In a compelling paper that appeared in 2007, Slavoj Zizek recounted the following anecdote, funny and disconcerting at the same time: Italian leftist journalist Marco Cicala had confessed him that Read More »
Ease Of Repair As A Design Ideal: A Reflection On How Open Source Models Can Support Longer Lasting
Last spring, a series of online newspaper and magazine articles highlighted the story of the American farmers, who were hacking their tractors using Ukrainian software bought online (Naughton, 2017). Read More »
Spelman Cups: Attitudes To The Past
Technically there are five of you, but actually only four. Really you are three and one other. None of you are really broken, but all are damaged, bar one. Small, glazed, white, glossy. Three old, Read More »
Music, Desire And Affective Community Organizing For Repair: Note For The Piece ‘Le Désir Est Un
This note is part of an assemblage of which the main part is musical. If, as Nietzsche (2003: 6) puts it, music doesnt need any extra-musical material to acquire meaning, this text aims nevertheless Read More »
Repeating Brokenness: Repair As Non-reproductive Occupation, Improvisation And Speculation
Repair is commonly associated with improvement, with making better, with fixing. But what happens when it is impossible, and even undesirable, to fix what is broken? Or when we are not only incapable Read More »
