Evocative objects: things we think with

✍ Scribed by Turkle, Sherry

• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Edition: 1st MIT paperback ed
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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...

✦ Subjects

AUFSATZSAMMLUNGEN (DOKUMENTENTYP);COLLECTIONS D'ARTICLES ET D'ESSAIS (TYPE DE DOCUMENT);COLLECTIONS OF ESSAYS (TYPE OF DOCUMENT);DING AN SICH (ERKENNTNISTHEORIE);EMOTIONAL PERCEPTION + EMOTIONAL BEHAVIOUR (PSYCHOLOGY);EMOTIONALE WAHRNEHMUNG + EMOTIONALES VERHALTEN (PSYCHOLOGIE);OBJET COMME TEL (ÉPISTÉMOLOGIE);PERCEPTION ÉMOTIONELLE + COMPORTEMENT ÉMOTIONNEL (PSYCHOLOGIE);THING IN ITSELF (EPISTEMOLOGY);Transitional objects;PERCEPTION ÉMOTIONELLE + COMPORTEMENT ÉMOTIONNEL (PSYCHOLOGIE);OBJET COM