Communication Maintenance in Longue Duree (Hardcover)

Communication Studies?Long for?Maintenance Cultures: A Theoretical Introduction to the Book??Part 1: Temporalities??1. The Clock of the Long Now in?Longue Duree: Maintaining a Communication “Cool Tool” Through Millennia? 2. Endless Frontiers of Maintenance: The?Longue Duree?of Communication Infrastructure in the United States? 3. Sense Perception and the Maintenance of Pneumatic Mail Tubes in the?Longue Duree: Feeling the Air, Preventing and Fixing Failures? 4. The “Technical Time” of the Luxembourgish Telephone System Reflections on the Transformative Power of Maintenance??Part 2: Theorizing??5. Interruptions, Divestments and Reactivations of Maintenance in the Alpine Middle Ages: A Long-Term View? 6. Maps as Maintenance. Designing and Controlling the Kingdom of Sardinia and the State of Milan’s Boundaries and Rivers in the 18th Century? 7. Communicative Redundancy as a Maintenance Resource. The Dose Makes the Poison? 8. We Are All Maintainers: Everyday Practices of Media Maintenance in the Domestication of Technologies??Part 3: Infrastructuring??9. A Low Place in High Country: Maintaining Infrastructural Clearance Along the Backbone of the World? 10. Large-Scale Infrastructure System in Lisbon: Politics of Repair and Maintenance in the European Periphery in the 20th Century? 11. Maintenance of a Monopoly: The Digitalization of the Telephone Network as an Attempt to Preserve the Telecommunications Monopoly for the?Longue Duree