Communication Maintenance in Longue Durée

Communication Studies Long for Maintenance Cultures: A Theoretical Introduction to the Book Part 1: Temporalities 1. The Clock of the Long Now in Longue Durée: Maintaining a Communication “Cool Tool” Through Millennia 2. Endless Frontiers of Maintenance: The Longue Durée of Communication Infrastructure in the United States 3. Sense Perception and the Maintenance of Pneumatic Mail Tubes in the Longue Durée: 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 Durée