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Personal Reflection on Care and Repair

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Before this week, I was not very familiar with the extreme amount of work that went into taking care of material objects at the beginning of the industrial era. In particular, I found the reading by Susan Strasser to be quite interesting. I especially liked her detailed explanations of the specific processes of caring for […]

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The High Cost of Convenience: Waste, Repair, and Responsibility

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Looking at the amount of waste in the contemporary world, it’s striking how disposable everything has become—food, clothing, electronics and many more. In fact, nowadays, it has become very easy to just throw something you don’t want anymore. Waste seems to be the product of a convenience- and profit-based culture where planned obsolescence is the

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