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View article: Migrating with objects: material abandonment, continuity, and hope in the context of migratory precarity in Chile
Migrating with objects: material abandonment, continuity, and hope in the context of migratory precarity in Chile Open
Transnational movements involve not only migrating individuals but also the objects that travel with them across borders. The process of migration is thus composed of heterogeneous semiotic-material elements, both human and non-human, shap…
View article: Anticipatory Repair: Reframing Breakage through a Futures Agenda. Interview with Minna Ruckenstein and Sarah Pink
Anticipatory Repair: Reframing Breakage through a Futures Agenda. Interview with Minna Ruckenstein and Sarah Pink Open
In this interview, we wanted to explore the notion of repair beyond the usual materialities and temporalities of the present. Therefore, we proposed a conversation between Minna Ruckenstein and Sarah Pink, in order to rethink repair in the…
View article: Generative Repair and Graceful Decay: Interview with Caitlin DeSilvey
Generative Repair and Graceful Decay: Interview with Caitlin DeSilvey Open
Professor Caitlin DeSilvey works as a cultural geographer and lecturer at the University of Exeter. Her work explores the ways in which built environments change through aging, including processes of repair, decay, and wasting. She collabo…
View article: Circles and Mistakes: Interview with Tim Ingold
Circles and Mistakes: Interview with Tim Ingold Open
Tim Ingold is a British anthropologist, Social Anthropology Professor at the University of Aberdeen, Fellow of the British Academy, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He has explored the relationship between anthropology, archi…
View article: Postcards from Abroad
Postcards from Abroad Open
In this section called ‘postcards from abroad’ we propose to diversify and open up the understandings and practices of repair itself, engaging material repair in conversation with other types of repair, coming from fields of creation and k…
View article: Book review of Visual Participatory Arts Based Research in The City: Ontology, Aesthetics and Ethics
Book review of Visual Participatory Arts Based Research in The City: Ontology, Aesthetics and Ethics Open
This review of the book Visual Participatory Arts Based Research In The City: Ontology, Aesthetics and Ethics, edited by Laura Trafí-Prats and Aurelio Castro-Varela, brings together contributions that continue and are part of the tradition…
View article: Do-it-yourself biology and electronic waste hacking: A politics of demonstration in precarious times
Do-it-yourself biology and electronic waste hacking: A politics of demonstration in precarious times Open
In recent years, there has been an explosion of do it yourself, maker and hacker spaces in Europe. Through makers and do-it-yourself initiatives, ‘hacking’ is moving into the everyday life of citizens. This article explores the collective …
View article: Vulnerability Tests. Matters of “Care for Matter” in E-waste Practices
Vulnerability Tests. Matters of “Care for Matter” in E-waste Practices Open
In this paper we will think ethnographically about how material vulnerability is dealt with and conceived of in the practice of informal menders. We explore different practices to “care for matter”, mobilized in dealing with obsolete compu…