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Repairs are a special moment in the "biography of an object" (Appadurai, Kopytoff). Although it was taken off the market circuit when it was bought, the object returns to the field of exchanges after being repaired, following an accident, wear and tear, or due to shortages or political commitments to sustainable consumption. This circulation generates knowledge and know-how, it involves professions and sociability (often gendered), it enhances the organization of a production system, largely supported by subcontracting networks and decentralized workshops, including in the contemporary period. Even in electronic processes, supposedly preventing any appropriation, are nestled complex embodied know-how, cultural cements of established professional circles (Callén). Recent creations of repair sites for electronic equipment attest the strength of this model but also the emergence of a new consumerist logic. Renewed studies since a generation on the restoration of technical objects in muse

Technical cultures of repair, from prehistory to the present day Call for Papers Date September 30, 2018 Location France Subject Fields Anthropology , Archaeology , Art, Art History & Visual Studies , History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Technical cultures of repair, from prehistory to the present day International meeting Paris, June 17-18, 2019 Repairs are a special moment in the "biography of an object" (Appadurai, Kopytoff). Although it was taken off the market circuit when it was bought, the object returns to the field of exchanges after being repaired, following an accident, wear

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