243. Maintenance 

Maintenance is often ignored, minimized, or portrayed as being inferior to creative/productive work, but it's really the most fundamental activity of life itself, & it can teach us a lot about the world.
Links for the Curious -
Graham, Stephen, and Nigel Thrift. “Out of Order: Understanding Repair and Maintenance.” Theory, Culture & Society 24, no. 3 (May 2007): 1-25. doi.org/10.117....
HOW IT WORKS | Wine Glasses, Grand Piano, Water Tap, Soy Sauce | Episode 1 | Free Documentary, 2014. • ► HOW IT WORKS | Wine ... .
“American Time Use Survey - 2022 Results,” n.d.
Berger, Markus, and Kate Irvin. Repair: Sustainable Design Futures. 1st ed. London: Routledge, 2022. doi.org/10.432....
Denis, Jérôme, and David Pontille. “Beyond Breakdown: Exploring Regimes of Maintenance,” n.d.
Mitchell, William J., and Anthony M. Townsend. “Cyborg Agonistes: Disaster and Reconstruction in the Digital Electronic Era.” In The Resilient City, by William J. Mitchell and Anthony M. Townsend. Oxford University Press, 2005. doi.org/10.109....
Mohun, Simon. “Productive and Unproductive Labour in the Labour Theory of Value,” n.d.
Prattes, Riikka. “‘I Don’t Clean up after Myself’: Epistemic Ignorance, Responsibility and the Politics of the Outsourcing of Domestic Cleaning.” Feminist Theory 21, no. 1 (January 1, 2020): 25-45. doi.org/10.117....
Stairway to Heaven, 2010. • Stairway to Heaven .
Star, Susan Leigh. “The Ethnography of Infrastructure.” American Behavioral Scientist 43, no. 3 (November 1999): 377-91. doi.org/10.117....
xkcd: Dependency - xkcd.com/2347/
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How Mierle Laderman Ukeles Turned Maintenance Work into Art - hyperallergic....
What is work? Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relatively to other such matter; second, telling other people to do so. The first one is unpleasant and ill paid; the second is pleasant and highly paid.
-Bertrand Russell