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Re: [OT] reading recommendations?


From: Rusi
Subject: Re: [OT] reading recommendations?
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 19:56:35 -0800 (PST)
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On Thursday, December 18, 2014 6:18:23 AM UTC+5:30, Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
> Damien Wyart writes:
> 
> > * Eric Abrahamsen  in gnu.emacs.help:
> >> I'm looking for reading recommendations, for books about tool use.
> >> Specifically: discussions about how the human sense of self (physical,
> >> and social) is extended and altered by the presence and use of tools.
> >> You've heard the sociologist's observation that, when drivers gets
> >> rear-ended, they don't usually say "that car hit my car", but instead,
> >> "that car hit ME". That sort of thing. Readings based in neurology,
> >> philosophy, sociology -- anything would be great.
> >
> > Here are some suggestions (links to Amazon are for convenience only,
> > I am not affiliated with them):
> >
> > http://www.amazon.com/The-Second-Self-Computers-Spirit/dp/0262701111/
> > http://www.amazon.com/Life-Screen-Identity-Age-Internet/dp/0684833484/
> > http://www.amazon.com/Evocative-Objects-Things-Think-With/dp/0262516772/
> > http://www.amazon.com/Inner-History-Devices-Sherry-Turkle/dp/0262516756/
> >
> > http://www.amazon.com/Smarter-Than-You-Think-Technology/dp/0143125826/
> > http://www.amazon.com/Shallows-What-Internet-Doing-Brains/dp/0393339750/
> > http://www.amazon.com/The-Glass-Cage-Automation-Us/dp/0393240762/
> >
> > http://www.amazon.com/The-Metaphysics-Technology-David-Skrbina/dp/0415716624/
> >
> > http://cje.oxfordjournals.org/content/34/1/17.extract
> > http://www.scaruffi.com/mind/gregory.html
> > http://ubiquity.acm.org/article.cfm?id=1670827
> > http://cje.oxfordjournals.org/content/34/1/1.extract
> > http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED178395.pdf
> 
> Good lord, that will keep me going for a year! I knew this was the right
> place to come. Thanks very much to you, Óscar, and off-list responders.

Yes -- good stuff. Thanks Eric for asking the question.

Can you share the suggestions you seem to have received off-list
answers as well?


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