An investigation of the causes and consequences of the strange, ambivalent, and
increasingly central role of infrastructure repair in modern life. Infrastructures …

This article looks to propose a new way to understand the repair of failing large
sociotechnical systems. Leaving aside romantic valuations, repair always involves a certain …

2 Power, Information Technology, and International Relations Theory brought about a new
realization of the destructive impact of human technological capabilities. Hans Morgenthau …

This paper discusses the empirical case of an aging and obsolescent infrastructure
supporting a space science mission that is currently approaching a known end. Such a case …

In both mainstream policy-making and academic literature on technologies and innovations,
new technologies seem to be both more desirable and more interest ing phenomena than …

Cet article interroge l'attention à la fragilité qui est à l'œuvre dans deux situations de
maintenance urbaine: l'effacement des graffitis et la gestion des réseaux d'eau. Il montre …

In science and technology studies, an important amount of research work has described the
place of technology in modern societies by focusing on a particular form of failure …

Technological determinism as a theory of social change has been thoroughly tarnished in
social theory, science and technology studies, and the discipline of International Relations. If …

Full article: Frail modernities: Latin American infrastructures between repair and ruination
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Drawing upon a range of ethnographic case studies, Christopher R. Henke locates repair at
the heart of infrastructures local and global, a practice for maintaining social and material …