Over the past twenty years, the technologies of simulation and visualization have changed our ways of looking at the world. In "Simulation and Its Discontents", Sherry Turkle examines the now dominant medium of our working lives and finds that simulation has become its own sensibility. We hear it in Turkle's description of architecture students ...
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." For Sherry Turkle, "We think with the objects we love; we love the objects we ...
For more than two decades, in such landmark studies as "The Second Self" and "Life on the Screen", Sherry Turkle has challenged our collective imagination with her insights about how technology enters our private worlds. In "The Inner History of Devices", she describes her process, an approach that reveals how what we make is woven into our ways ...
Freud prophesied in 1914 that the final decisive battle' for psychoanalysis would take place where the greatest resistance [had] been displayed.' Wary of America's too easy acceptance, he suspected a dilution and distortion of his most vital and therefore most unacceptable doctrines. Among Western countries, France may well be the one that ...
Millions of people worldwide now interact via computers, often assuming personalities of their own creation, but what are the psychological effects of such game playing? This book examines the wonders and dangers of virtual interaction and the profound impact it has on our lives. The author argues that what is emerging is a new sense of identity, ...
Passion for objects and love for science: scientists and students reflect on how objects fired their scientific imaginations."This is a book about science, technology, and love," writes Sherry Turkle. In it, we learn how a love for science can start with a love for an object - a microscope, a modem, a mud pie, a pair of dice, a fishing rod. ...
A new edition of the classic primer in the psychology of computation, with a new introduction, a new epilogue, and extensive notes added to the original text.
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