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The Poetics and Political Economy of Repair

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This chapter explores the poetics and political economy of technology repair, reviewing fieldwork from amateur fixer communities in North America and Europe to livelihood repair communities in the global South. It argues for the need to combine poetics and political economy in our understanding of emerging media forms.

Keywords: big data ; communication ; development ; environment ; ethnography ; infrastructure ; law ; maintenance ; materiality ; media ; policy ; repair ; science and technology studies ; theory

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The Poetics and Political Economy of Repair
Intellect , 244 (2021); https://doi.org/10.1386/9781789383263_019
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