The Inner History of Devices

“Sherry Turkle and the contributors use memoirs, psychoanalysis, and ethnography to illuminate our attachments, our grief, our compulsions, our use of things to explore life and death, to shape new selves. Their insights make this book important reading not only for professionals but for everybody who wonders where innovation is taking us.”–Edward Tenner, author of Our Own Devices: How Technology Remakes Humanity and Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences “What a remarkable book–like a magic toolbox out of this volume come objects with stories: cellphones, dialysis machines, defibrillators, websites, and much more. Using fieldwork, clinical work, and memory work, Sherry Turkle and her terrific contributors make the material world a place of living meanings that tell a great deal about who we are–and who we are becoming. Even more: this is a sophisticated book that is great fun to read.”–Peter Galison, Joseph Pellegrino University Professor, Harvard University – Peter Galison “What a remarkable book – as if it were a magic toolbox, out of this volume come objects with stories: cell phones, dialysis machines, defibrillators, websites, and much more. Using fieldwork, clinical work, and memory work, Sherry Turkle and her terrific contributors make the material world a place of living meanings that tell a great deal about who we are and who we are becoming. Even more: this is a sophisticated book that is great fun to read.” – Peter Galison , Joseph Pellegrino University Professor, Harvard University

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.Anita Say Chan is Assistant Research Professor of Communications in the Department of Media and Cinema Studies and the Institute of Communications Research in the College of Media at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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