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| Genre/Form: | Aufsatzsammlung |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Sherry Turkle |
| ISBN: | 9780262201681 0262201682 |
| OCLC Number: | 71146430 |
| Description: | ix, 385 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. |
| Contents: | 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. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Sherry Turkle. |
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Abstract:
Autobiographical 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."
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"Evocative Objects is a collection of great richness and complexity. Reading these essays transforms one's sense of the most commonplace objects, and prompts us to explore the palimpsest of the past within us." --Jill Ker Conway, President Emerita, Smith College, author of The Road from Coorain "Original, absorbing, and beautifully written, this collection of essays will forever change the way you look at the objects in your life." --Helen Epstein, author of Children of the Holocaust and Where She Came From: A Daughter's Search for her Mother's History Read more...
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