Evocative Objects: Things We Think With - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0262516772 ISBN 13: 9780262516778

Casa editrice: MIT Press, 2011

Riassunto

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."

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L'autore:

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.

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Su questa edizione

• Editore: MIT Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0262516772
• ISBN 13: 9780262516778
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 396
• Redattore: Turkle Sherry