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Title Evocative objects : things we think with / edited by Sherry Turkle
Published Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 385 pages) : illustrations
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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 344-363) and index
Notes English
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Subject Transitional objects (Psychology)
Attachment behavior.
Object Attachment
PSYCHOLOGY -- Mental Health.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Social Aspects.
Transitional objects (Psychology)
Attachment behavior
Transitional objects (Psychology)
Objekt Informatik
Objekt Philosophie
Alltagsgegenstand
Theorie
Objets usuels.
Objets transitionnels.
Attachement.
Genre/Form Aufsatzsammlung.
Form Electronic book
Author Turkle, Sherry, editor
ISBN 9780262285223
0262285223
9781435616530
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9786612098604
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9781282098602
0262201682
9780262201681
0262291649
9780262291644