Evocative Objects: Things We Think With

ISBN 10: 0262516772 / ISBN 13: 9780262516778

Published by The MIT Press, 2011

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Evocative Objects: Things We Think With
• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0262516772
• ISBN 13: 9780262516778
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: acceptable

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Synopsis

Autobiographical essays, framed by two interpretive essays by the editor, describe the power of an object to evoke emotion and provoke thought: reflections on a cello, a laptop computer, a 1964 Ford Falcon, an apple, a mummy in a museum, and other "things-to-think-with."

About the Author

Sherry Turkle is Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at MIT and Founder and Director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self. A psychoanalytically trained sociologist and psychologist, she is the author of The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit (Twentieth Anniversary Edition, MIT Press), Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet, and Psychoanalytic Politics: Jacques Lacan and Freud's French Revolution. She is the editor of Evocative Objects: Things We Think With, Falling for Science: Objects in Mind, and The Inner History of Devices, all three published by the MIT Press.