Sherry Turkle

Sherry Turkle is Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at MIT and the author, most recently, of Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age.

Letter

Listening to Lacan

5 January 1989

Mr Cohen (Letters, 30 March) need not fear I have made a shift towards the rabid. My purpose both in Psychoanalytic Politics and in my recent review of the early Lacan seminars is to understand what Lacan was trying to tell us, why so many people stopped to listen, and what paying attention to him can teach us. I underscore ‘trying’ because, beginning with Freud, psychoanalytic theory teaches us...

Alone Together is a work of atonement for the things Sherry Turkle missed or got wrong in her earlier work on computers and people.

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My space or yours?

Peter Campbell, 17 October 1996

In the world which is entered by way of the computer people are often not what they seem; they may hide behind their screens and offer false descriptions of themselves. The boundaries between...

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Ego’s End

John Sturrock, 22 November 1979

Sherry Turkle has written a reasonable, useful and heroically neutral book on the Lacan phenomenon: the sudden celebrity in France as maître à penser of Jacques Lacan, an elderly...

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