Sherry Turkle Knihy

Argues that today's digital culture is undermining relationships, creativity, and productivity, and pushes for the return of face-to-face interaction among people

"MIT psychologist and bestselling author of Reclaiming Conversation and Alone Together , Sherry Turkle's intimate memoir of love and work In this vivid and poignant narrative, Sherry Turkle ties together her coming-of-age story and her groundbreaking research on technology, empathy, and ethics. Growing up in post-war Brooklyn in a house filled with mysteries, Turkle searched for clues. She mastered the codes that governed her secretive mother's world. She learned never to ask about her absent scientist father. And never to use his name, her name. Empathy was her strategy for survival. Turkle's intellect and curiosity propelled her to the thresholds of defining cultural moments that became life-lessons: she practiced friendship at Harvard/Radcliffe at the cusp of co-education during the antiwar movement, mourned the loss of her mother in Paris as students returned from the 1968 barricades, and faced the extent of her ambition while fighting for her place in the academy as a woman at MIT. There, Turkle found turbulent love and chronicled the wonders of the new computer culture, even as she warned of its threat to our most essential human connections. The Empathy Diaries captures all this in rich detail--and offers a masterclass in finding meaning through life's work."-- Provided by publisher

For over two decades, Sherry Turkle has explored how technology shapes our private lives in landmark studies. In her latest work, she reveals her process of understanding how our creations influence our self-perception, combining the perspectives of memoirist, clinician, and ethnographer to craft an inner history of devices. The narrative covers a range of objects, from cell phones and video poker to prosthetic eyes and dialysis machines. Turkle advocates for an "intimate ethnography" that questions conventional beliefs. One personal computer owner expresses a profound connection, stating, "This computer means everything to me. It's where I put my hope." This prompts Turkle to shift her inquiry from how computers are used to what makes them so deeply meaningful. The work invites readers to listen for deeper insights, presenting stories of an American student reconciling her identities through a cell phone used in Japan, a patient using email to navigate her relationship with her therapist, and a compulsive gambler who prefers the unpredictability of video poker. Through these narratives, we uncover untold stories and recognize that conventional wisdom often falls short in capturing the complexities of our interactions with technology.

"MIT psychologist and bestselling author of Reclaiming Conversation and Alone Together , Sherry Turkle's intimate memoir of love and work In this vivid and poignant narrative, Sherry Turkle ties together her coming-of-age story and her groundbreaking research on technology, empathy, and ethics. Growing up in post-war Brooklyn in a house filled with mysteries, Turkle searched for clues. She mastered the codes that governed her secretive mother's world. She learned never to ask about her absent scientist father. And never to use his name, her name. Empathy was her strategy for survival. Turkle's intellect and curiosity propelled her to the thresholds of defining cultural moments that became life-lessons: she practiced friendship at Harvard/Radcliffe at the cusp of co-education during the antiwar movement, mourned the loss of her mother in Paris as students returned from the 1968 barricades, and faced the extent of her ambition while fighting for her place in the academy as a woman at MIT. There, Turkle found turbulent love and chronicled the wonders of the new computer culture, even as she warned of its threat to our most essential human connections. The Empathy Diaries captures all this in rich detail--and offers a masterclass in finding meaning through life's work."-- Provided by publisher

Preeminent author and researcher Sherry Turkle has studied digital culture for over thirty years. While she has long been an enthusiast for its possibilities, she now investigates a troubling consequence: our tendency to avoid conversation in various aspects of life—work, home, politics, and love—opting instead for texts and emails that allow us to disengage. This shift has led to silent dinner tables where children compete with phones for parental attention and friends struggle to maintain conversations when few are looking up from their screens. At work, we retreat to our devices, despite the fact that informal conversations enhance productivity and commitment. Online, we often share only agreeable opinions, avoiding the real conflicts of public discourse. The need for conversation begins with self-reflection, which is endangered in an always-connected world where loneliness is seen as a problem technology should solve. This reliance on others for self-worth diminishes our empathy and relationships. The consequences of avoiding conversation are evident: it undermines democracy and business success, while fostering empathy, friendship, love, and learning in our personal lives. However, there is hope; Turkle's five years of research reveal that we can reclaim conversation, the most humanizing act we engage in, to address modern challenges. We possess everything we need to start—each other.

Technology has become the architect of our intimacies. Online, we fall prey to the illusion of companionship, gathering thousands of Twitter and Facebook friends, and confusing tweets and wall posts with authentic communication. But this relentless connection leads to a new solitude.

Argues that social-networking sites, companion robots and other technology are fueling disturbing levels of isolation and are causing humans to mistake digital communication for actual human connection. By the author of Simulations and Its Discontents.

In 1914 Freud foretold the 'final decisive battle' for psychoanalysis would take place 'where the greatest resistance [had] been displayed.' Wary of America's too easy acceptance, he suspected a dilution & distortion of his most vital--thus unacceptable--doctrines. Among Western nations, France maybe resisted Freud longest. Yet in the late '60s, France was seized by an 'infatuation with Freudianism.' By the end of the decade, it had more than a movement: it had a widespread, deeply rooted psychoanalytic culture. At this development's core was Jacques Lacan's reconstruction of Freudian theory, a reinvention of psychoanalysis resonating with French culture in the aftermath of the 1968 uprisings. While psychoanalysis has become increasingly identified with an essentially conservative US medical establishment, the French rediscovery of Freud, enacting his prophesy, became associated with the most radical elements of philosophical & political life. The story of Lacan, & why his work so profoundly influenced the French psyche, is told clearly & unerringly by Sherry Turkle in this work. Acclaimed as 'an absolutely indispensable contribution to the psychoanalytic history,' this 2nd edition has two important additions. A preface explicates Lacan's impact by presenting a theory of the conditions for the dissemination & acceptance of philosophical positions by a culture. The final chapter, Dynasty 1991, portrays the last years of Lacan's life, the power struggles resulting in the break-up of his school & events unfolding in years following his 1981 death. The book's heart is a 1st-hand account of the psychoanalytic culture that developed--a politicized, Gallicized & poeticized Freudianism, deeply marked by Lacan. The clearest English introduction to Lacan's teaching, the work explores how cultures appropriate theories of mind. It's an intimate sociology of how ideas come to connect with individuals. Providing an inner history of the sciences of the mind, the book is valuable for all interested in psychoanalysis, history, social theory, communications, film theory & literary criticism.

Viviamo in un mondo che sempre piú sacrifica i piaceri e i benefici della conversazione sull'altare delle tecnologie digitali. Parliamo con un amico, ma nel frattempo diamo piú di un'occhiata allo smartphone, e spesso i nostri figli si lagnano se non hanno tra le mani un dispositivo elettronico. Viviamo costantemente in un altrove digitale. Ma per capire chi siamo, per comprendere appieno il mondo che ci circonda, per crescere, per amare ed essere amati, dobbiamo saper conversare. La perdita della capacità di parlare < > con gli altri - con empatia, imparando nel contempo a sopportare solitudine e inquietudini - rischia di ridurre le nostre capacità di riflessione e concentrazione, portandoci, nei casi estremi, a stati di dissociazione psichica e cognitiva. In questo libro, frutto di anni di interviste e di indagini sul campo, Sherry Turkle, < >, sottolinea le insidie e gli effetti delle appendici tecnologiche che ci circondano nella società e nella nostra vita quotidiana, per far sí che ognuno ridiventi padrone di se stesso, senza farsene acriticamente dominare