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Evocative objects : things we think with / edited by Sherry Turkle.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Transitional objects (Psychology).
- Attachment behavior.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 385 p. : ill.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.".
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Things That Matter
- Objects of Design and Play
- My Cello
- Knots
- The Archive
- Stars
- Keyboards
- Objects of Discipline and Desire
- Ballet Slippers
- The Elite Glucometer
- The Yellow Raincoat
- The Datebook
- My Laptop
- Blue Cheer
- Objects of History and Exchange
- The Radio
- The Bracelet
- The Axe Head
- Dit Da Jow: Bruise Wine
- The Vacuum Cleaner
- Objects of Transition and Passage
- The Melbourne Train
- 1964 Ford Falcon
- The Synthesizer
- Murray: The Stuffed Bunny
- The World Book
- The Silver Pin
- Objects of Mourning and Memory
- Death-Defying Superheroes
- The SX-70 Instant Camera
- Salvaged Photographs
- The Rolling Pin
- The Painting in the Attic
- The Suitcase
- Objects of Meditation and New Vision
- Chinese Scholars' Rocks
- Apples
- The Mummy
- The Geoid
- Foucault's Pendulum
- Slime Mold
- What Makes an Object Evocative?
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Epigraph Sources
- Illustration Credits
- Index.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [344]-363) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-262-29164-9
- 1-282-09860-8
- 9786612098604
- 0-262-28522-3
- 1-4356-1653-7
- 9780262516778
- 9780262201681
- OCLC:
- 939263699
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