Maintenance of Everything: Part One
暫譯: 一切的維護：第一部分
Brand, Stewart
- 出版商: Stripe Press
- 出版日期: 2026-01-20
- 售價: $1,530
- 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $1,453
- 語言: 英文
- 頁數: 308
- 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
- ISBN: 1953953492
- ISBN-13: 9781953953490
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商品描述
The first in-depth exploration of maintenance--and a powerful argument for its civilizational importance--from the author of How Buildings Learn and creator of the Whole Earth Catalog.
Maintenance is what keeps everything going. It's what keeps life going. Yet it's also easy to shirk or defer--until the thing breaks, the system falters, and everything stops. The apparent paradox is profound: Maintenance is absolutely necessary and maintenance is optional.
The first in a multi-volume work, Maintenance: Of Everything, Part One offers a comprehensive overview of the civilizational importance of maintenance. The book begins with a dramatic contest of maintenance styles under life-critical conditions: the Golden Globe around-the-world solo sailboat race of 1968. It goes on to explore the insights that can be gleaned from vehicle maintenance, from the zeal of motorcycle maintainers to the maintenance philosophies that fought for dominance of the auto industry to the state of electric vehicle manufacturing today, with absorbing detours into the evolution of precision in manufacturing, the enduring importance of manuals, sustainment in the military, and the never-ending battle against corrosion.
Maintenance: Of Everything is a wide-ranging and provocative call to expand what we mean by "maintenance"--not just the tiresome preventative tasks but the whole grand process of keeping a thing going. It invites us to understand not only the profound impact maintenance has on our daily lives but also why taking responsibility for maintaining something--whether a motorcycle, a monument, or our very planet--can be a radical act. "No one else but Stewart Brand is talking about the art and science of maintenance and how to do it well. This will be an instant classic."
--Matt Ridley, author of The Rational Optimist
"A deliciously good book." --Kevin Kelly, founding executive editor of Wired
Maintenance is what keeps everything going. It's what keeps life going. Yet it's also easy to shirk or defer--until the thing breaks, the system falters, and everything stops. The apparent paradox is profound: Maintenance is absolutely necessary and maintenance is optional.
The first in a multi-volume work, Maintenance: Of Everything, Part One offers a comprehensive overview of the civilizational importance of maintenance. The book begins with a dramatic contest of maintenance styles under life-critical conditions: the Golden Globe around-the-world solo sailboat race of 1968. It goes on to explore the insights that can be gleaned from vehicle maintenance, from the zeal of motorcycle maintainers to the maintenance philosophies that fought for dominance of the auto industry to the state of electric vehicle manufacturing today, with absorbing detours into the evolution of precision in manufacturing, the enduring importance of manuals, sustainment in the military, and the never-ending battle against corrosion.
Maintenance: Of Everything is a wide-ranging and provocative call to expand what we mean by "maintenance"--not just the tiresome preventative tasks but the whole grand process of keeping a thing going. It invites us to understand not only the profound impact maintenance has on our daily lives but also why taking responsibility for maintaining something--whether a motorcycle, a monument, or our very planet--can be a radical act. "No one else but Stewart Brand is talking about the art and science of maintenance and how to do it well. This will be an instant classic."
--Matt Ridley, author of The Rational Optimist
"A deliciously good book." --Kevin Kelly, founding executive editor of Wired
商品描述(中文翻譯)
這是對維護的首次深入探索——以及對其文明重要性的有力論證——來自《建築如何學習》（How Buildings Learn）的作者和《全地球目錄》（Whole Earth Catalog）的創作者。
維護是讓一切運行的關鍵。它是讓生活持續的要素。然而，這也是一件容易被推遲或忽視的事情——直到事物壞掉，系統失靈，一切都停止運作。這個表面上的矛盾是深刻的：維護是絕對必要的，而維護又是可選的。
作為一部多卷本作品的第一部，《維護：一切的維護，第一部分》（Maintenance: Of Everything, Part One）提供了維護在文明中重要性的全面概述。這本書以1968年金球獎環球單人帆船賽的劇烈維護風格競賽開始，探討在生命關鍵條件下的維護挑戰。接著，它深入探討了從車輛維護中可以獲得的見解，從摩托車維護者的熱情到爭奪汽車產業主導地位的維護哲學，再到當今電動車製造的現狀，並吸引人地探討了製造精度的演變、手冊的持久重要性、軍事中的持續維護，以及與腐蝕作鬥爭的永無止境的挑戰。
維護：一切的維護 是一個廣泛而具挑戰性的呼籲，旨在擴展我們對「維護」的定義——不僅僅是繁瑣的預防性任務，而是保持事物運行的整個宏大過程。它邀請我們理解維護對我們日常生活的深遠影響，以及為何承擔維護某物的責任——無論是摩托車、一座紀念碑，還是我們的星球——都可以是一種激進的行為。 「除了斯圖爾特·布蘭德（Stewart Brand）之外，沒有人在談論維護的藝術和科學以及如何做好這件事。這將成為經典之作。」
--馬特·瑞德利（Matt Ridley），《理性樂觀主義者》（The Rational Optimist）的作者
「一本令人愉悅的好書。」 --凱文·凱利（Kevin Kelly），《Wired》的創始執行編輯
作者簡介
Stewart Brand is the cofounder and president of The Long Now Foundation and cofounder of Global Business Network, the Hackers Conference, and the WELL. He created and edited the National Book Award-winning Whole Earth Catalog from 1968 to 1998. His books include The Media Lab (1987), How Buildings Learn (1994), The Clock of the Long Now (1999), and Whole Earth Discipline (2009). He was the subject of the documentary We Are As Gods (2020). He graduated from Stanford with a degree in biology and served as an infantry officer in the US Army.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
斯圖亞特·布蘭德是長期未來基金會的共同創辦人及總裁，也是全球商業網路、駭客會議和WELL的共同創辦人。他於1968年至1998年間創建並編輯了獲得全國圖書獎的整個地球目錄。他的著作包括媒體實驗室（1987年）、建築如何學習（1994年）、長期未來的時鐘（1999年）和整個地球紀律（2009年）。他是紀錄片我們如同神明（2020年）的主題。他畢業於史丹佛大學，獲得生物學學位，並在美國陸軍擔任步兵軍官。
