Technological environments we inhabit require repair and maintenance to function. Yet people on whom such repairs rely—along with their knowledge and labor—often remain unseen and undervalued, becoming visible only during infrastructural breakdown or disasters. The invisibility of repair facilitates grand proclamations of technological solutionism, distracting from the requirements for living equitably in a fragmented, fragile world. Does our understanding of the history of technology change when we center repair and maintenance?
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