The Capture of Maintenance

Why is maintenance invisible and innovation celebrated, when maintenance is what keeps us alive?

“Why does nobody notice what I do until I stop doing it?”

innovation, improvement, upgrade, efficiency

You might be experiencing The Capture of Maintenance if: Does the work that keeps things running get less recognition than the work that launches new things? Is maintenance only discussed when it fails? Would the system collapse without the maintenance that goes unacknowledged? Is 'innovation' being used to justify neglecting what already exists?

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All mechanisms

False Elasticity
Actuarial Medicine
Sanctiphagy
Procedural Erosion
Administrative Homelessness
Manufacturing Inevitability
Seemingly Neutral Systems
Temporal Capture
Wound Worship
Hyperreal Labor
Charismatic Systems
The Heisenberg Subaltern
Load-Bearing Design
The Capture of Maintenance
Lucid Disorientation
The Subtext Economy Has Collapsed