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Titolo: | Evocative objects : things we think with / / edited by Sherry Turkle |
Pubblicazione: | Cambridge, MA, : MIT Press, c2007 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | ix, 385 p. : ill |
Disciplina: | 155.9/1 |
Soggetto topico: | Transitional objects (Psychology) |
Attachment behavior | |
Altri autori: | TurkleSherry |
Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [344]-363) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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.". |
Titolo autorizzato: | Evocative objects |
ISBN: | 0-262-29164-9 |
1-282-09860-8 | |
9786612098604 | |
0-262-28522-3 | |
1-4356-1653-7 | |
9780262516778 | |
9780262201681 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910818866703321 |
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