Maintenance of Everything: Part One
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A celebration of the things that endure. In Maintenance: Of Everything, Part One, Stewart Brand turns his attention to an often-overlooked truth: creating something is only the beginning. The real work lies in caring for it. Drawing from architecture, infrastructure, technology, ecology, and everyday life, Brand explores the quiet discipline of maintenance—the people, systems, and philosophies that keep our world functioning long after the excitement of invention has faded. Thoughtful, wide-ranging, and deeply optimistic, this first volume challenges our culture's obsession with the new, arguing instead for stewardship, longevity, and continual improvement. A fascinating read for designers, makers, tinkerers, and anyone who believes that preserving something can be just as creative as building it.
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Maintenance of Everything: Part One
Author
Stewart Brand
Publisher
Stripe Press
Format
Hardcover
Pages
308
Size
9.25 x 6.25 x 2 Inches
ISBN
978-1953953490
About the author
Stewart Brand
Stewart Brand is the cofounder and president of The Long Now Foundation and cofounder of Global Business Network, the Hackers Conference, and the WELL. He created and edited the National Book Award-winning Whole Earth Catalog from 1968 to 1998. His books includeThe Media Lab (1987), How Buildings Learn (1994), The Clock of the Long Now (1999), and Whole Earth Discipline (2009). He was the subject of the documentary We Are As Gods (2020). He graduated from Stanford with a degree in biology and served as an infantry officer in the US Army.
