Plough Quarterly No. 38 - Repair
Williams, Rowan / Fujimura, Makoto / Saldaña, Stephanie / Nicholson, Adam / Thomas, Hannah Rose / Abgaryan, Narine / Sergeant, Leah Libresco / Wirzba, Norman / Crosby, Benjamin / Armstrong, Kurt / Britts, Philip / Mommsen, Peter
Our writers celebrate the work of repair – of objects, relationships, communities, and landscapes – and reckon with its limits.
Consumers campaign for a “right to repair” in protest of products’ wasteful “planned obsolescence.” Repair cafés spring up, in which old-timers teach greenhorns to mend clothes and appliances. But much more than our possession stand in need of repair. For some, the Jewish phrase tikkun olam – to repair the world – may...