Material Ordering and the Care of Things
Material Ordering and the Care of Things
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DOI：
10.1177/0162243914553129
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发表时间：
2015-05-01
影响因子：
3.1
通讯作者：
Pontille, David
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作者：
Denis, Jerome;Pontille, David
本文借鉴对巴黎地铁寻路系统安装和维护的人种学研究，试图讨论和具体说明先前的主张，这些主张强调稳定性和不变性是材料订购过程的关键方面。尽管在设计师的作品（如指南或图形手册）中，地铁标志已经标准化，并投入了一致性以稳定乘客的环境，但它们在维护人员手中却显得脆弱且易变形。这两种情境的叙述既不对立也不自相矛盾：它们制定了不同版本的地铁标志，其稳定是通过承认它们的脆弱性来实现的。遵循 Annemarie Mol 和 Maria Puig de la Bellacasa 的说法，处理物质脆弱性的实践是我们提出的“照顾事物”的核心。突出这种对事物的关心是一种方法，可以揭示材料订购中很大程度上被忽视的维度，并更新通常解决可维护性问题的方式。
Drawing on an ethnographic study of the installation and maintenance of Paris subway wayfinding system, this article attempts to discuss and specify previous claims that highlight stability and immutability as crucial aspects of material ordering processes. Though in designers' productions (such as guidelines or graphic manuals), subway signs have been standardized and their consistency has been invested in to stabilize riders' environment, they appear as fragile and transforming entities in the hands of maintenance workers. These two situated accounts are neither opposite nor paradoxical: they enact different versions of subway signs, the stabilization of which goes through the acknowledgment of their vulnerability. Practices that deal with material fragility are at the center of what we propose, following Annemarie Mol and Maria Puig de la Bellacasa, to term a care of things. Foregrounding such a care of things is a way to surface a largely overlooked dimension of material ordering and to renew how maintainability issues are generally tackled.