Fwd: [liSTS] New book announcement — Fragilities: Essays on the Politics, Ethics, and Aesthetics of Maintenance and Repair
Loïc Riom
De : David PONTILLE <david.p...@mines-paristech.fr>
Date: mer. 7 mai 2025 à 10:10
Subject: [liSTS] New book announcement — Fragilities: Essays on the Politics, Ethics, and Aesthetics of Maintenance and Repair
To: li...@groupes.renater.fr <li...@groupes.renater.fr>
Dear all,
Jérôme Denis, Fernando Domínguez Rubio, and myself are delighted to announce the publication of our edited volume:
Fragilities: Essays on the Politics, Ethics, and Aesthetics of Maintenance and Repair by the MIT press.
Contributors: Annemarie Mol, Myriam Winance, Lucy Suchman, Marisol de la Cadena+Santiago Martínez Medina, Max Liboiron, María Puig de la Bellacasa, Tomás Sánchez Criado+Vicent Duclos, Thomas Cousins, Geof Bowker, Chandra
Mukerji, Cymene Howe, Steve Jackson, Jérôme Denis, David Pontille, and Fernando Domínguez Rubio
The book is available in an OPEN-ACCESS version that you can access in this link:
https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edited-volume/5957/FragilitiesEssays-on-the-Politics-Ethics-and
If you want the (paid) physical copy, you can use the below code for discounts on orders placed through PenguinRandomHouse.com.
READMIT20 (this code offers 20% off at any time after publication)
All the best,
David Pontille
BLURB
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 Domínguez Rubio, Jérôme Denis, and David Pontille argue that we need to pay attention to the moments when the bodies, things, and worlds we inhabit begin to crack and reveal their fragility; it is in these instabilities that we can gain precious access to alternative ways of being. The essays in this collection explore how the work of care, maintenance, and repair compose with, rather than struggle against, fragilities.
Fragility forces us to reckon with the precariousness and contingency of life and to use this reckoning as a starting point to build and nurture life-affirming politics and ethics. The book explores fragility in four categories—bodies, environments, labor, and politics—and proposes to consider in each situation what/who is rendered visible, what/who is made absent, what is considered normal, and what is deemed strong and stable versus what is deemed fragile. The volume includes a strong line-up of leading and emerging scholars from a wide array of disciplines, including anthropology, social studies of science, disabilities studies, and sociology.
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David Pontille
Senior researcher at CNRS
Center for the Sociology of Innovation
i3 CNRS (UMR 9217) – Mines Paris PSL
60 boulevard Saint Michel, 75006 Paris
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