Attending to maintenance and repair reveals temporalities obscured under the singular and teleological histories that dominate understanding of the relationship between media, technology and time.
Paper long abstract:
This talk explores temporalities of maintenance and repair as developed across a range of empirical sites and projects. It contrasts these with the singular and teleological accounts that dominate academic and popular understandings of the relationship between media, technology, and time, and shares results from a series of ethnographic and interactive installation projects designed to reflect and provoke different temporal possibilities already present at the intersection of technology and social life.