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  1. Sep 2022
    1. aesthetic charms

      this is an undervalued part I think - of maintenance and of creating objects that are maintainable - their beauty

    2. I can’t help but wonder what they might tell us if we asked them what was possible without simultaneously denying them the resources they need to do their job.

      Why haven't we asked this?

    3. imagine a modern ritual that would be equal to the task of perpetually renewing steel bridges, concrete highways and cement buildings

      I think I can imagine this, as I cross the columbia to Astoria, OR. Passing workers who seem to be working at some point or another. Is this not maintenance? Or not a ritual? Unsaid assumption from this is that the rituality of the incan rope bridge repair is the key to the solution

    4. Perhaps maintenance, rather than sustainability, is the more useful framework for a green transition, because it can account for how human infrastructure is now deeply entangled with the environment

      Thesis statement of the article

  2. Dec 2021
    1. “proof of stake” where the design literally becomes “he who has the gold makes the rules”.