Maintenance: Of Everything, Part One

Stewart Brand

Technology

The first volume of a planned multi-volume work arguing for an expanded understanding of maintenance as the grand process of keeping things going rather than merely tiresome preventative chores. Drawing on examples from motorcycle and auto maintenance, precision manufacturing, manuals, military sustainment, and corrosion, Brand frames the upkeep of objects, monuments, and the planet as a meaningful and even radical act. Published by Stripe Press.