false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177196558m/686496.jpg 686496 1 For Sherry Turkle, "We think with the objects we love; we love the objects we think with." In <i>Evocative Objects,</i> Turkle collects writings by scientists, humanists, artists, and designers that trace the power of everyday things. These essays reveal objects as emotional and intellectual companions that anchor memory, sustain relationships, and provoke new ideas.<br> <br> This volume's special contribution is its focus on everyday riches: the simplest of objects--an apple, a datebook, a laptop computer--are shown to bring philosophy down to earth. The poet contends, "No ideas but in things." The notion of evocative objects goes further: objects carry both ideas and passions. In our relations to things, thought and feeling are inseparable.<br> <br> Whether it's a student's beloved 1964 Ford Falcon (left behind for a station wagon and motherhood), or a cello that inspires a meditation on fatherhood, the intimate objects in this collection are used to reflect on larger themes--the role of objects in design and play, discipline and desire, history and exchange, mourning and memory, transition and passage, meditation and new vision.<br> <br> In the interest of enriching these connections, Turkle pairs each autobiographical essay with a text from philosophy, history, literature, or theory, creating juxtapositions at once playful and profound. So we have Howard Gardner's keyboards and Lev Vygotsky's hobbyhorses; William Mitchell's Melbourne train and Roland Barthes' pleasures of text; Joseph Cevetello's glucometer and Donna Haraway's cyborgs. Each essay is framed by images that are themselves evocative. Essays by Turkle begin and end the collection, inviting us to look more closely at the everyday objects of our lives, the familiar objects that drive our routines, hold our affections, and open out our world in unexpected ways.<br/> <br/> <b>Essays by:</b><br/> Julian Beinart, Matthew Belmonte, Joseph Cevetello, Robert P. Crease, Olivia Dasté, Glorianna Davenport, Judith Donath, Michael M. J. Fischer, Howard Gardner, Tracy Gleason, Nathan Greenslit, Stefan Helmreich, Michelle Hlubinka, Henry Jenkins, Caroline A. Jones, Evelyn Fox Keller, Tod Machover, Susannah Mandel, David Mann, Castle McLaughlin, Eden Medina, Jeffrey Mifflin, William J. Mitchell, David Mitten, Annalee Newitz, Trevor Pinch, Susan Pollak, Mitchel Resnick, Nancy Rosenblum, Susan Spilecki, Carol Strohecker, Susan Rubin Suleiman, Sherry Turkle, and Gail Wight. 672857 31 8 2007 Evocative Objects: Things We Think With total:42|5:13|4:16|3:10|2:3|1:0| 42 165 122 9 5 1 false false Sun Sep 14 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 19 21:30:57 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 21 14:20:29 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 04 05:38:59 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 16 17:33:26 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Aug 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed May 14 10:29:03 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 18 11:50:03 -0700 2009
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]]> 3 0 false false Mon Aug 18 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 18 11:52:19 -0700 2007 Mon Sep 01 20:01:16 -0700 2008 Life on the Screen was a central text for my unfinished master's thesis about gendered communication in an online community. It's been more than a decade since I moved on to other interests and I was curious to read about what Dr. Turkle is looking into these days. A lovely collectio...more...]]> 2 0 false false Sun Oct 04 14:29:34 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 13 19:59:51 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 04 14:29:34 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Aug 22 21:35:08 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 22 21:38:10 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Jan 24 06:22:42 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 24 06:23:29 -0800 2008 5 0 false false Fri May 02 12:09:00 -0700 2008 Fri May 02 12:12:26 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Thu Nov 12 15:24:20 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 12 15:24:20 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Mon Nov 02 21:27:37 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 02 21:27:46 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Wed Sep 30 10:28:43 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 30 10:28:43 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Sep 29 18:20:35 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 29 18:20:35 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Mon Sep 14 04:41:55 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 14 04:41:55 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Aug 26 10:15:55 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 26 10:16:03 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Aug 19 10:05:28 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 19 10:05:28 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Aug 19 03:07:01 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 19 03:07:01 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Aug 18 12:10:51 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 18 12:10:51 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sun Jul 26 22:10:21 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 26 22:10:21 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sun May 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 15 15:45:37 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 15 15:48:13 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=686496