{"product_id":"evocative-objects-things-we-think-with-9780262516778","title":"Evocative Objects: Things We Think With","description":"\u003cb\u003eAutobiographical 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.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor Sherry Turkle, \"We think with the objects we love; we love the objects we think with.\" In \u003ci\u003eEvocative Objects\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhether 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSherry Turkle is Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at MIT and Founder and Director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self. A psychoanalytically trained sociologist and psychologist, she is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit\u003c\/i\u003e (Twentieth Anniversary Edition, MIT Press), \u003ci\u003eLife on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePsychoanalytic Politics: Jacques Lacan and Freud's French Revolution.\u003c\/i\u003e She is the editor of \u003ci\u003eEvocative Objects: Things We Think With, Falling for Science: Objects in Mind, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Inner History of Devices, \u003c\/i\u003e all three published by the MIT Press. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMitchel Resnick, an expert in educational technologies, is Professor of Learning Research at the MIT Media Lab.His research group develops the Scratch programming software and online community, the world's largest coding platform for kids. He has worked closely with the LEGO company on educational ideas and products, such as the LEGO Mindstorms robotics kits, and he cofounded the Computer Clubhouse project, an international network of after-school learning centers for youth from low-income communities. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHoward Gardner is John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Research Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Best known as the originator of the Theory of Multiple Intelligences, he is the author of thirty books, including \u003ci\u003eFrames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eTruth, Beauty, and Goodness Reframed\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eThe App Generation\u003c\/i\u003e (with Katie Davis). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEden Medina is Associate Professor of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University Bloomington and the author of \u003ci\u003eCybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende's Chile\u003c\/i\u003e. She received the IEEE Life Member's Prize in Electrical History in 2007 for her work on Chile's experiments with cybernetics and socialism. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWilliam J. Mitchell was the Alexander W. Dreyfoos, Jr., Professor of Architecture and Media Arts and Sciences and directed the Smart Cities research group at MIT's Media Lab. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJudith Donath is a Faculty Fellow at Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet and Society and a Visiting Scholar at MIT's Program in Science, Technology, and Society. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTrevor Pinch is Goldwin Smith Professor of Science and Technology Studies at Cornell University and coeditor of \u003ci\u003eThe Social Construction of Technological Systems: New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology \u003c\/i\u003e(anniversary edition, MIT Press). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHenry Jenkins is Provost's Professor of Communication, Journalism and Cinematic Arts at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California. He is the coeditor of \u003ci\u003eFrom Barbie to Mortal Kombat: Gender and Computer Games\u003c\/i\u003e (MIT Press, 1998). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eStefan Helmreich is Elting E. Morison Professor of Anthropology at MIT. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eAlien Ocean, Sounding the Limits of Life, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSilicon Second Nature\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCaroline A. Jones is Professor of Art History in the History, Theory, Criticism section of the Department of Architecture at MIT. She is the editor of \u003ci\u003eSensorium: Embodied Experience, Technology, and Contemporary Art\u003c\/i\u003e (MIT Press). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSherry Turkle is Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at MIT and Founder and Director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self. A psychoanalytically trained sociologist and psychologist, she is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit\u003c\/i\u003e (Twentieth Anniversary Edition, MIT Press), \u003ci\u003eLife on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePsychoanalytic Politics: Jacques Lacan and Freud's French Revolution.\u003c\/i\u003e She is the editor of \u003ci\u003eEvocative Objects: Things We Think With, Falling for Science: Objects in Mind, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Inner History of Devices, \u003c\/i\u003e all three published by the MIT Press.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50410024370450,"sku":"9780262516778","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_6b240f0c-eb6c-45ab-bfb7-47976757c1e3.jpg?v=1729299339","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/evocative-objects-things-we-think-with-9780262516778","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}