Sherry Turkle

¿Hemos sacrificado la conversación por la conexión?Estamos sumidos en la cultura digital y en un estado de constante conexión. Hemos desarrollado afición por las interacciones sociales virtuales dentro de los ambitos del trabajo, la familia, la amistad, la educacion y las relaciones sentimentales, sin advertir el peligro que ello comporta. Casi sin darnos cuenta, hemos abandonado la conversacion cara a cara.Sherry Turkle, la principal especialista en la interaccion entre las nuevas tecnologias y el ser humano, analiza en este libro las desastrosas consecuencias de la perdida de la conversacion que hemos experimentado en los ultimos años, que hace peligrar lo que nos define como seres humanos.En defensa de la conversacion es una cautivadora apologia del valor fundamental de las conversaciones cara a cara en todos los ambitos de nuestra vida y una llamada a recuperar el terreno perdido.Turkle no esta en contra de la tecnologia, sino a favor de la conversacion. Su antidoto es muy simple: hay que hablar mas los unos con los otros.THE GUARDIANSon los inquietantes aspectos sobre la sociedad y la tecnologia movil a los que Sherry Turkle atiende en un libro inteligente y observador.THE NEW YORK BOOK REVIEWEl argumento de Turkle proviene de su extensa investigacion y de la agudeza de su conocimiento psic...

Hemos sacrificado la conversación por la conexión? Estamos sumidos en la cultura digital y en un estado de constante conexión. Hemos desarrollado afición por las interacciones sociales virtuales dentro de los ambitos del trabajo, la familia, la amistad,

À l’heure où les appareils connectés ont totalement envahi notre quotidien et où une toute nouvelle génération d’enfants a grandi entourée de tous ces objets numériques, Sherry Turkle se questionne s

À l’heure où les appareils connectés ont totalement envahi notre quotidien et où une toute nouvelle génération d’enfants a grandi entourée de tous ces objets numériques, Sherry Turkle se questionne s

A beautiful book an instant classic of the genre. Dwight Garner, New York Times A New York Times Critics Top Book of 2021ANew York TimesBook Review Editors Choice Named a Best Nonfiction Book of 2021 by Kirkus Winner of the 2021 National Jewish Book Award in Autobiography & Memoir Winner of the New England Society Book Award in NonfictionMIT psychologist and bestselling author of Reclaiming Conversation and Alone Together, Sherry Turkles intimate memoir of love and workFor decades, Sherry Turkle has shown how we remake ourselves in the mirror of our machines. Here, she illuminates our present search for authentic connection in a time of uncharted challenges. Turkle has spent a career composing an intimate ethnography of our digital world; now, marked by insight, humility, and compassion, we have her own.In this vivid and poignant narrative, Turkle ties together her coming-of-age and her pathbreaking research on technology, empathy, and ethics. Growing up in postwar Brooklyn,Turkle searched for clues to her identity in a house filled with mysteries. She mastered the codes that governed her mothers secretive life. She learned never to ask about her absent scientist father--and never to use his name, her name. Before empathy became a way to find connection, it was her strategy for survival.Turkles intellect and curiosity brought her to worlds on the threshold of change. She learned friendship at a Harvard-Radcliffe on the cusp of coeducation during the antiwar movement, she mourned the loss of her mother in Paris as students returned from the 1968 barricades, and she followed her ambition while fighting for her place as a woman and a humanist 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 master class in finding meaning through a lifes work.

How the simulation and visualization technologies so pervasive in science, engineering, and design have changed our way of seeing the world.Over the past twenty years, the technologies of simulation and visualization have changed our ways of looking at the world. In Simulation and Its Discontents, Sherry Turkle examines the now dominant medium of our working lives and finds that simulation has become its own sensibility. We hear it in Turkles description of architecture students who no longer design with a pencil, of science and engineering students who admit that computer models seem more real than experiments in physical laboratories.Echoing architect Louis Kahns famous question, What does a brick want?, Turkle asks, What does simulation want? Simulations want, even demand, immersion, and the benefits are clear. Architects create buildings unimaginable before virtual design; scientists determine the structure of molecules by manipulating them in virtual space; physicians practice anatomy on digitized humans. But immersed in simulation, we are vulnerable. There are losses as well as gains. Older scientists describe a younger generation as drunk with code. Young scientists, engineers, and designers, full citizens of the virtual, scramble to capture their mentors tacit knowledge of buildings and bodies. From both sides of a generational divide, there is anxiety that in simulation, something important is slipping away. Turkles examination of simulation over the past twenty years is followed by four in-depth investigations of contemporary simulation culture: space exploration, oceanography, architecture, and biology.

A new edition of the classic primer in the psychology of computation, with a new introduction, a new epilogue, and extensive notes added to the original text.In The Second Self, Sherry Turkle looks at the computer not as a "tool," but as part of our social and psychological lives; she looks beyond how we use computer games and spreadsheets to explore how the computer affects our awareness of ourselves, of one another, and of our relationship with the world. "Technology," she writes, "catalyzes changes not only in what we do but in how we think." First published in 1984, The Second Self is still essential reading as a primer in the psychology of computation. This twentieth anniversary edition allows us to reconsider two decades of computer cultureto (re)experience what was and is most novel in our new media culture and to view our own contemporary relationship with technology with fresh eyes. Turkle frames this classic work with a new introduction, a new epilogue, and extensive notes added to the original text.Turkle talks to children, college students, engineers, AI scientists, hackers, and personal computer ownerspeople confronting machines that seem to think and at the same time suggest a new way for us to thinkabout human thought, emotion, memory, and understanding. Her interviews reveal that we experience computers as being on the border between inanimate and animate, as both an extension of the self and part of the external world. Their special place betwixt and between traditional categories is part of what makes them compelling and evocative. (In the introduction to this edition, Turkle quotes a PDA user as saying, "When my Palm crashed, it was like a death. I thought I had lost my mind.") Why we think of the workings of a machine in psychological termshow this happens, and what it means for all of usis the ever more timely subject of The Second Self.

In a time in which the ways we communicate and connect are constantly changing, and not always for the better, Sherry Turkle provides a much needed voice of caution and reason to help explain what the f*** is going on. Aziz Ansari, author of Modern RomanceRenowned media scholar Sherry Turkle investigates how a flight from conversation undermines our relationships, creativity, and productivityand why reclaiming face-to-face conversation can help us regain lost ground.We live in a technological universe in which we are always communicating. And yet we have sacrificed conversation for mere connection.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 dont have to look, listen, or reveal ourselves. We develop a taste for what mere connection offers. The dinner table falls silent as children compete with phones for their parents attention. Friends learn strategies to keep conversations going when only a few people are looking up from their phones. At work, we retreat to our screens although it is conversation at the water cooler that increases not only productivity but commitment to work. Online, we only want to share opinions that our followers will agree with a politics that shies away from the real conflicts and solutions of the public square. The case for conversation begins with the necessary conversations of solitude and self-reflection. They are endangered: these days, always connected, we see loneliness as a problem that technology should solve. Afraid of being alone, we rely on other people to give us a sense of ourselves, and our capacity for empathy and relationship suffers. We see the costs of the flight from conversation everywhere: conversation is the cornerstone for democracy and in business it is good for the bottom line. In the private sphere, it builds empathy, friendship, love, learning, and productivity.But there is good news: we are resilient. Conversation cures. Based on five years of research and interviews in homes, schools, and the workplace, Turkle argues that we have come to a better understanding of where our technology can and cannot take us and that the time is right to reclaim conversation. The most humanand humanizingthing that we do. The virtues of person-to-person conversation are timeless, and our most basic technology, talk, responds to our modern challenges. We have everything we need to start, we have each other. Turkles latest book, The Empathy Diaries is available now.

An updated edition of the seminal book that explores why the interest in psychoanalysis in France exploded after 1968 and what it says about culture and therapy.Among Western countries, France may well be the one that resisted Freud the longest. But, in the late 1960s, France was seized by an infatuation with Freudianism. By the end of that decade, France had more than a psychoanalytic movement: it had a widespread and deeply rooted psychoanalytic culture. At the heart of this development was Jacques Lacans reconstruction of Freudian theory, a reinvention of psychoanalysis that resonated with French culture in the aftermath of the uprisings of 1968. In Psychoanalytic Politics, the second edition of her groundbreaking work, Sherry Turkle tells the fascinating story of Lacan and why his work so profoundly influenced the French psyche. While in the United States psychoanalysis is identified with an essentially conservative medical establishment, the French rediscovery of Freud, in a dramatic enactment of Freuds prophesy, became associated with the most radical elements of French philosophical and political life. In this book, Turkle provides a firsthand account of the psychoanalytic culture that developed in Franceas a politicized, Gallicized, and poeticized Freudianism, deeply marked by the work of Jacques Lacan. The clearest introduction in English to Lacans teaching, Psychoanalytic Politics explores how cultures appropriate theories of mind and how ideas come to connect with individuals. The books final chapter provides a fascinating portrayal of the last years of Lacans lifethe intrigue and power struggles that resulted in the break-up of the Freudian School he founded and the events that unfolded in the years following his death in 1981.This edition includes a new preface by the author, reflecting on the origins of the book and its relevance for today: a time when the integration of thought and feeling, politics and self-examination is as urgent an endeavor as ever.

Cuando, hace algunos años, Sherry Turkle publicó su libro The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit, hoy en día un clásico en la materia, nadie podía imaginar aún el espectacular cambio que iba a producirse en la forma en que concebimos y utilizamos los ordenadores. Ya no damos "órdenes" a la máquina, sino que dialogamos, navegamos con ella, surcando mundos simulados y creando realidades virtuales. Y, además, el poder psicológico que posee el ordenador ya no se limita a la interacción persona-máquina, sino que se ha ampliado a un gran número de redes a través de las cuales podemos interactuar, hablar, intercambiar ideas y sentimientos e incluso asumir personalidades de nuestra propia creación. Éste no es, pues, un libro sobre ordenadores, sino sobre la gente y la reevaluación de sus identidades en la era de Internet, sobre nuestra implicación informática en nuevas formas de pensar acerca de la evolución, las relaciones, la política, el sexo y el yo. Y lo que acaba emergiendo, según Turkle, es un nuevo sentido de la identidad humana, descentrado y múltiple, que a su vez sirve para describir las últimas tendencias del diseño informático, de la inteligencia artificial y de las experiencias de la gente en ciertos entornos virtuales: el ordenador, en fin, como profeta del posmodernismo en la tierra.

¿Hemos sacrificado la conversación por la conexión? Estamos sumidos en la cultura digital y en un estado de constante conexión. Hemos desarrollado afición por las interacciones sociales virtuales dentro de los ambitos del trabajo, la familia, la amistad, la educacion y las relaciones sentimentales, sin advertir el peligro que ello comporta. Casi sin darnos cuenta, hemos abandonado la conversacion cara a cara.Sherry Turkle, la principal especialista en la interaccion entre las nuevas tecnologias y el ser humano, analiza en este libro las desastrosas consecuencias de la perdida de la conversacion que hemos experimentado en los ultimos años, que hace peligrar lo que nos define como seres humanos.En defensa de la conversacion es una cautivadora apologia del valor fundamental de las conversaciones cara a cara en todos los ambitos de nuestra vida y una llamada a recuperar el terreno perdido."Turkle no esta en contra de la tecnologia, sino a favor de la conversacion. Su antidoto es muy simple: hay que hablar mas los unos con los otros."The Guardian"Son los inquietantes aspectos sobre la sociedad y la tecnologia movil a los que Sherry Turkle atiende en un libro inteligente y observador."The New York Book Review"El argumento de Turkle proviene de su extensa investigacion y de la agudeza de su conocimiento psicologico."Jonathan Frazen, The New York Times"Un libro incisivo y brillante que explica el poder de la conversacion."Howard Gardner"Un libro persuasivo e intimo que explora las sutilezas de las relaciones humanas."The Washington Post"El libro de Turkle es ingenioso, esta bien escrito y da mucho que pensar Hablar no cuesta nada, pero la conversacion no tiene precio."Boston Globe"Recuerda que esta en juego cuando la maquina se impone a las conversaciones cara a cara, pero defiende que no es demasiado tarde para recuperarlas."Seattle Times

Life on the Screen is a book not about computers, but about people and how computers are causing us to reevaluate our identities in the age of the Internet. We are using life on the screen to engage in new ways of thinking about evolution, relationships, politics, sex, and the self. Life on the Screen traces a set of boundary negotiations, telling the story of the changing impact of the computer on our psychological lives and our evolving ideas about minds, bodies, and machines. What is emerging, Turkle says, is a new sense of identityas decentered and multiple. She describes trends in computer design, in artificial intelligence, and in peoples experiences of virtual environments that confirm a dramatic shift in our notions of self, other, machine, and world. The computer emerges as an object that brings postmodernism down to earth.

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.