May 2, 2024
This too, is a mech suit.
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This too, is a mech suit.
In 1828, the young German architect Heinrich Hübsch wrote an essay asking a question that gave rise ...
Repair is not simply an aesthetic. Its politics anchor repair in the praxis of doing and responding to the world, thereby charting a different temporal course – one that demands being pursued on its own terms. Recent scholarship in repair studies has celebrated the interventions that acts of maintenance make in a world beset by planned obsolescence and short‑term cultures of use and disposal. Taking time to foreground the ongoing work of cleaners, maintainers and repair workers, this literature carves out a space from which to consider the labour of planetary care that repair performs: cleaning the air, the beach, the forest; rewilding the land. While we have much to learn from this discourse, caution must be paid to the ways in which the cultures of extractive capitalism lay siege to otherwise well‑intentioned acts of repair. Wresting care away from neoliberalised accounts of ‘self‑care’ is a fraught and complex task. We cannot allow repair, after its naturalisation as feminised care work or the unskilled work of manual labour, to be stylised, romanticised and commodified. The proliferation of home improvement television programmes, linking the amateur renovator’s dream directly to increasing the ‘resale value’ of houses while ignoring the unliveable reality of disrepair, point to a very real vulnerability in the concept of repair. Repair is always a question of what it means to break, who is breaking, and who is broken. In her recent book, The Ruse of Repair (2021), Patricia Stuelke warns against repair being ‘implicated in short‑circuiting rather than successfully realising attempts to break with the world as it is in order to create equality’. In other words, repair cannot simply appeal to learning to live with breakdown. New questions of disrepair must be asked: breakdown for whom and by whom? What system of knowledge distinguished that as broken and this as repair? Like Britain’s 19th‑century Luddites, who broke machinery in the name of repairing class relations, a form of repair that breaks the carbon logics that are breaking the planet must be realised. In what style, then, do we repair? By learning, first, how to break better.
"Afterglow," a private jet retrofit Concept,
Courtesy of JPA Design
lord knows what she's about to do with that thing
Helen Henny Retrofit Redesigns
These are gonna look so much better once I cut them out and put them in my sketchbook, but overall I'm happy with how they turned out. I always felt like these Henriettas left something to be desired, so I hope you all like my interpretations of the characters :)
Pictures of The Rockafire-Explosion in Adventure Landing, Jacksonville Beach FL
They look so cool! (Also Mitzi with black hair??!)
Something isn't right here... I don't think that's Looney Bird...
Rolfe and... naked Earl
More pictures!!!
The U.S. has gotten on the heat pump bandwagon, with the efficient heating and cooling technology outselling gas furnaces three years in a r
The U.S. has jumped on the heat pump bandwagon: In 2024, heat pumps outsold gas furnaces for the third year in a row — by 27 percent.
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In the winter, heat pumps extract heat from the outside air (even when it’s below zero), run it through a compressor, and then pump it indoors. During the balmy days of summer, a heat pump reverses this technology, essentially turning the heater into an air conditioner.
