Evocative objects : things we think with /
Contributor(s): Turkle, Sherry.
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2007Description: ix, 385 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780262201681 (hardcover : alk. paper); 9780262201681:; 0262201682 (hardcover : alk. paper).Subject(s): Transitional objects (Psychology)DDC classification: 155.91Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [344]-363) and index.
My cello / Tod Machover -- Knots / Carol Strohecker -- Archive / Susan Yee -- Stars / Mitchel Resnick -- Keyboards / Howard Gardner -- Ballet slippers / Eden Medina -- Elite glucometer / Joseph Cevetello -- Yellow raincoat / Matthew Belmonte -- Datebook / Michelle Hlubinka -- My laptop / Annalee Newitz -- Blue cheer / Gail Wight -- Radio / Julian Beinart -- Bracelet / Irene Castle McLaughlin -- Axe head / David Mitten -- Dit Da Jow : bruise wine / Susan Spilecki -- Vacuum cleaner / Nathan Greenslit -- Melbourne train / William J. Mitchell -- 1964 Ford Falcon / Judith Donath -- Synthesizer / Trevor Pinch -- Murray : the stuffed bunny / Tracy Gleason -- World Book / David Mann -- Silver pin / Susan Rubin Suleiman -- Death-defying superheroes / Henry Jenkins -- SX-70 instant camera / Stefan Helmreich -- Salvaged photographs / Glorianna Davenport -- Rolling pin / Susan Pollak -- Painting in the attic / Caroline A. Jones -- Suitcase / Olivia Dasté -- Chinese scholars' rocks / Nancy Rosenblum -- Apples / Susannah Mandel -- Mummy / Jeffrey Mifflin -- Geoid / Michael M J. Fischer -- Foucault's pendulum / Robert P. Crease -- Slime mold / Evelyn Fox Keller -- What makes an object evocative? / Sherry Turkle.
Sherry Turkle collects writings by scientists, humanists, artists, and designers that trace the power of everyday things. These essays reveal objects as emotioal and intellectual companions that anchor memory, sustain relationships, and provoke new ideas.