Connecting:

“The hammer only becomes visible as an object when something goes wrong. It breaks. It slips. It is missing. At that moment it becomes present-at-hand. You step back and look at it.

The object appears through breakdown.”

https://harishsnotebook.wordpress.com/2026/02/20/when-does-a-system-exist-the-myth-of-the-given-system/

When Does a System Exist? The Myth of the Given System:

In today’s post, I want to look at a question that seems almost too simple to ask: when does a system exist? For this I will be drawing on ideas from Wilfrid Sellars, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Hei…

Harish's Notebook - My notes... Lean, Cybernetics, Quality & Data Science.

to Susan Leigh Star, as one does…

"[Infrastructure] “Becomes visible upon breakdown. The normally invisible quality of working infrastructure becomes visible when it breaks: the server is down, the bridge washes out, there is a power blackout.”

— Susan Leigh Star, The Ethnography of Infrastructure

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