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Evocative Objects: Things We Think With
by Turkle, Sherry (editor)
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine in Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0262201682
- ISBN 13
- 9780262201681
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About This Item
The MIT Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2007. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0262201682 . Stiff unmarked book in crisp dust jacket. About new; 8.1 X 5.7 X 1.2 inches; 400 pages; For Sherry Turkle, "We think with the objects we love; we love the objects we think with." In Evocative Objects, 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. These days, scholars show new interest in the importance of the concrete. 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. 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. 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. .
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- Bookseller
- B-Line Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 56674
- Title
- Evocative Objects: Things We Think With
- Author
- Turkle, Sherry (editor)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0262201682
- ISBN 13
- 9780262201681
- Publisher
- The MIT Press
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge, Ma
- Date Published
- 2007
- Keywords
- 0262201682
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