Books and essays behind this site, including the sources of the quotations on Support Maintainers.
Maintenance and repair
- Brand, Stewart. How Buildings Learn: What Happens after They’re Built. Viking, 1994.
- Brand, Stewart. “The Maintenance Race.” Works in Progress, July 21, 2022. https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-maintenance-race/.
- Brand, Stewart. Maintenance: Of Everything, Part One. Stripe Press, 2026.
- Edgerton, David. The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History since 1900. Oxford University Press, 2007.
- Jackson, Steven J. “Rethinking Repair.” In Media Technologies: Essays on Communication, Materiality, and Society, edited by Tarleton Gillespie, Pablo J. Boczkowski, and Kirsten A. Foot. MIT Press, 2014.
- Mattern, Shannon. “Maintenance and Care.” Places Journal, November 2018. https://placesjournal.org/article/maintenance-and-care/.
- Russell, Andrew, and Lee Vinsel. “Hail the Maintainers.” Aeon, April 7, 2016. https://aeon.co/essays/innovation-is-overvalued-maintenance-often-matters-more.
- Ukeles, Mierle Laderman. “Manifesto for Maintenance Art 1969! Proposal for an Exhibition ‘CARE’.” 1969. https://web.archive.org/web/20261001022455/https://queensmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Ukeles-Manifesto-for-Maintenance-Art-1969.pdf.
- Vinsel, Lee, and Andrew L. Russell. The Innovation Delusion: How Our Obsession with the New Has Disrupted the Work That Matters Most. Currency, 2020.
Open source
- Eghbal, Nadia. Roads and Bridges: The Unseen Labor Behind Our Digital Infrastructure. Ford Foundation, 2016. https://www.fordfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/roads-and-bridges-the-unseen-labor-behind-our-digital-infrastructure.pdf.
- Eghbal, Nadia. Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software. Stripe Press, 2020.
- Munroe, Randall. “Dependency.” xkcd. August 17, 2020. https://xkcd.com/2347/.
Care, shadow work and the gift
- Federici, Silvia. “Wages Against Housework.” Power of Women Collective and Falling Wall Press, 1975. https://libcom.org/article/wages-against-housework-silvia-federici.
- Fisher, Berenice, and Joan Tronto. “Toward a Feminist Theory of Caring.” In Circles of Care: Work and Identity in Women’s Lives, edited by Emily K. Abel and Margaret K. Nelson. State University of New York Press, 1990.
- Fraser, Nancy. “Contradictions of Capital and Care.” New Left Review no. 100 (2016): 99–117. https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii100/articles/nancy-fraser-contradictions-of-capital-and-care.
- Hochschild, Arlie. The Second Shift: Working Parents and the Revolution at Home. Viking, 1989.
- Hoskyns, Catherine, and Shirin M. Rai. “Recasting the Global Political Economy: Counting Women’s Unpaid Work.” New Political Economy 12, no. 3 (2007).
- Hyde, Lewis. The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property. Random House, 1983.
- Illich, Ivan. Shadow Work. Marion Boyars, 1981.
- Kimmerer, Robin Wall. “The Serviceberry: An Economy of Abundance.” Emergence Magazine, 2022. https://emergencemagazine.org/essay/the-serviceberry/.
- Mauss, Marcel. The Gift: Forms and Functions of Exchange in Archaic Societies. Translated by Ian Cunnison. W. W. Norton, 1967.
- Tronto, Joan C. Moral Boundaries: A Political Argument for an Ethic of Care. Routledge, 1993.
My writing on maintenance
- Knauss, Dan. “Lessons in Maintenance: Maintenance Styles That Can Lead You to Victory, Liberate, or Kill You.” Post Status. September 19, 2022. https://poststatus.com/lessons-in-maintenance/.
- Knauss, Dan. “Maintenance Art.” 24 Days in December. December 19, 2022. https://24daysindecember.net/2022/12/19/maintenance-art/.
- Knauss, Dan. “PHP 8.2: What Does It Mean for WordPress, Plugins, and Developers?.” iThemes Blog. 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230926194332/https://ithemes.com/blog/php-8-2/.