Psychoanalytic Politics: Jacques Lacan and Freud's French Revolution

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Sherry Turkle

Psychology & Counseling

HarperCollins Publishers, Ltd

The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit

Computers & Technology

Computer Science

Consider Facebook-it's human contact, only easier to engage with and easier to avoid. Developing technology promises closeness. Sometimes it delivers, but much of our modern life leaves us less connected with people and more connected to simulations of them. In Alone Together, MIT technology and society professor Sherry Turkle explores the power of our new tools and toys to dramatically alter our social lives. It's a nuanced exploration of what we are looking for-and sacrificing-in a world of electronic companions and social networking tools, and an argument that, despite the hand-waving of today's self-described prophets of the future, it will be the next generation who will chart the path between isolation and connectivity.

Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

Basic Books

Review "A shrewd and witty account of the belated invasion of French intellectual life by psychoanalysis and of the way in which French culture and politics have in turn remade it in their image—modish and radical." —Stanley Hoffman, Harvard University"This is an illuminating and entertaining book on the sociology of psychoanalysis in France over the past decade.... Turkle dates the beginning of Freud's 'French Revolution' with the student upheavals of 1968. Since then under the leadership of the 'French Freud,' Jacques Lacan, psychoanalysis has invaded every aspect of French culture, thought, and politics and in turn has itself been recast in the characteristic French image—a dramatic fusion of science and poetry. A major achievement of the book is the lucid exposition which Turkle provides of Jacques Lacan's linguistically based psychoanalytic theory." —Modern Psychoanalysis"In researching Psychoanalytic Politics, Miss Turkle talked at length with Mr. Lacan, who dominates the French scene even more than Freud did Vienna, as well as with 150 other French psychoanalysts. She shows an almost haute bourgeois tact in keeping a straight face while discussing some of the more outré aspects of the French infatuation with Freud—or with their Freud, as Mr. Lucan is sometimes known." —Anatole Broyard, The New York Times"Turkle...focuses on the brilliant, enigmatic, and, for many, impenetrable Jacques Lacan.... [She] provides an explanation of the meteoric rise of the French interest—both academic and popular—in psychoanalysis, together with an analysis of Lacan's most important ideas: on the 'trinity' of the symbolic, the imaginary, and the real; on the ego as neurosis bearer; on the significance of wordplay." —Peter Gardner, Psychology Today About the Author Sherry Turkle is Abby Rockefeller Mauzé 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.

Psychoanalytic Politics: Freud's French Revolution

A groundbreaking book by one of the most important thinkers of our time shows how technology is warping our social lives and our inner ones 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 deep solitude. MIT professor Sherry Turkle argues that as technology ramps up, our emotional lives ramp down. Based on hundreds of interviews and with a new introduction taking us to the present day, Alone Together describes changing, unsettling relationships between friends, lovers, and families.

Examines the effect of the new "computer culture" on both children and adults and theorizes that computers are responsible for the new wave of mechanical determinism and a revival of mysticism and spirituality

Simon&Schuster

Insieme ma soli. Perché ci aspettiamo sempre più dalla tecnologia e sempre meno dagli altri

Einaudi

Reclaiming conversation and how to be fucking awesome 2 books collection set. Description:- Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age Preeminent author and researcher Sherry Turkle has been studying digital culture for over thirty years. Long an enthusiast for its possibilities, here she investigates a troubling consequence: at work, at home, in politics and in love, we find ways around conversation, tempted by the possibilities of a text or an email in which we don't have to look, listen or reveal ourselves.We are becoming addicted to connection over conversation, and this fact is stopping us from engaging in real debate, sharing our real opinions and reacting to our family, friends, partners and colleagues in a way that either encourages necessary conflict, or diffuses it. We are shying away from the real politics of the public square and heading for a subdued, online version of ourselves. How To Be F*cking Awesome if you've been looking for a kick up the backside to finally launch that business, start a new project you've been putting off or just become all round awesome, this book is for you. Why do some people have an awesome life, plenty of money, amazing friends and a business to love while others struggle at every step, are constantly broke and can never get out of the daily grind? What enables some people to work hard, play harder and make a difference every day, yet still have time to take care of their body, eat good food and be there for the people who matter? How do some people connect and persuade with ease, make good decisions and get sh*t done, while others make little impact, doubt themselves and get stuck in the rut of procrastination?

Reclaiming conversation and how to be fucking awesome 2 books collection set

Dan Meredith

Penguin Books/Rethink Press Limited

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Psychoanalytic Politics: Jacques Lacan and Freud's French Revolution

The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit

Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

Psychoanalytic Politics: Freud's French Revolution

Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit

Insieme ma soli. Perché ci aspettiamo sempre più dalla tecnologia e sempre meno dagli altri

Reclaiming conversation and how to be fucking awesome 2 books collection set