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 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
Sherry Turkle is Abby Rockefeller Mauze 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 The
Second Self- Computers and the Human Spirit (Twentieth Anniversary
Edition, MIT Press), Life on the Screen- Identity in the Age of the
Internet, and Psychoanalytic Politics- Jacques Lacan and Freud's
French Revolution. She is the editor of Evocative Objects- Things
We Think With, Falling for Science- Objects in Mind, and The Inner
History of Devices, all three published by the MIT Press.
Mitchel 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.
Howard 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 Frames
of Mind- The Theory of Multiple Intelligences; Truth, Beauty, and
Goodness Reframed; and The App Generation (with Katie Davis).
Eden Medina is Associate Professor of Informatics and Computing at
Indiana University Bloomington and the author of Cybernetic
Revolutionaries- Technology and Politics in Allende's Chile. She
received the IEEE Life Member's Prize in Electrical History in 2007
for her work on Chile's experiments with cybernetics and
socialism.
William 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.
Judith 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.
Trevor Pinch is Goldwin Smith Professor of Science and Technology
Studies at Cornell University and coeditor of The Social
Construction of Technological Systems- New Directions in the
Sociology and History of Technology (anniversary edition, MIT
Press).
Henry 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 From
Barbie to Mortal Kombat- Gender and Computer Games (MIT Press,
1998).
Stefan Helmreich is Elting E. Morison Professor of Anthropology at
MIT. He is the author of Alien Ocean, Sounding the Limits of Life,
and Silicon Second Nature.
Caroline 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 Sensorium- Embodied Experience, Technology,
and Contemporary Art (MIT Press).
Sherry Turkle is Abby Rockefeller Mauze 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 The
Second Self- Computers and the Human Spirit (Twentieth Anniversary
Edition, MIT Press), Life on the Screen- Identity in the Age of the
Internet, and Psychoanalytic Politics- Jacques Lacan and Freud's
French Revolution. She is the editor of Evocative Objects- Things
We Think With, Falling for Science- Objects in Mind, and The Inner
History of Devices, all three published by the MIT Press.
A wonderfully evocative (there really is no other word for it)
series of meditations on meaningful objects.
*The Guardian*
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