Sherry Turkle

An updated edition of Turkle’s seminal study of how Lacan’s reinvention of Freudian theory catalyzed a distinct French psychoanalytic culture after 1968. Turkle analyzes how ideas connect with people and politics, and adds a new preface reflecting on the book’s origins and contemporary relevance. citeturn14search0

A memoir weaving Turkle’s Brooklyn childhood, Harvard–MIT academic life, and research on technology into a narrative about secrecy, identity, and learning empathy. The book reflects on connection and solitude in the digital age and was named a New York Times Critics’ Top Book of 2021 and won major memoir awards. citeturn12search0

Based on five years of interviews in homes, schools, and workplaces, Turkle contends that a culture of constant connection undermines empathy, creativity, and productivity. She argues for intentional, face‑to‑face conversation—beginning with solitude and self‑reflection—as a remedy for the costs of device‑driven communication in family life, education, work, and civic life. citeturn11search0

Synthesizing years of fieldwork on social robots and networked life, Turkle argues that “relational” machines and always‑connected media can displace authentic human ties. Part I examines how robotic companions invite projection and attachment; Part II shows how mobile and social media tempt us toward connection at the expense of conversation, privacy, and reflection. citeturn16search2turn16search1

An ethnography of simulation cultures in architecture, science, engineering, and medicine. Turkle shows how immersive visualization and modeling reshape expertise and practice—expanding what’s possible while risking neglect of tacit knowledge and material constraints. Case studies in space exploration, oceanography, architecture, and biology highlight a generational divide over what simulations “want.” citeturn13search0

Develops the idea of the “tethered self” to describe identities stretched across ubiquitous mobile media. Turkle highlights continuous partial attention, blurred boundaries between presence and absence, and adolescence as a site of experimenting with self through online life—while urging space for solitude and reflective choice. citeturn17search5turn17search0

Essays by senior scientists, designers, and MIT students reflect on childhood encounters with objects—a microscope, toy gears, a fishing rod—that sparked scientific imagination and careers. Turkle argues for attending to concrete “things‑to‑think‑with” in science education and for recognizing affect and attachment in how technical minds develop. citeturn15search1turn15search0

Blending memoir, clinical cases, and ethnography, this volume develops Turkle’s method of “intimate ethnography” to reveal how technologies—from cell phones to medical machines—enter inner life. Contributors and Turkle track hopes, dependencies, and self‑understandings that arise as people form relationships with devices. citeturn13search1

A collection of autobiographical essays, framed by Turkle’s interpretive chapters, demonstrating how everyday objects—cellos, datebooks, laptops, cars—anchor memory, sustain relationships, provoke ideas, and entwine thought with feeling. The volume advances Turkle’s notion that we “think with the objects we love,” linking design and play to mourning, transition, and imagination. citeturn12search4

Turkle re-examines her classic study of how computers become part of our psychological and social lives. Drawing on interviews with children, students, engineers, and AI scientists, she argues that computers are experienced on the boundary between the inanimate and the animate and help shape how we think about memory, emotion, and self. The new edition adds an introduction, epilogue, and extensive notes to reflect two more decades of computer culture. citeturn10search0

A cultural and psychological exploration of how online environments—from MUDs to graphical interfaces—enable people to experiment with multiple selves and renegotiate boundaries between human and machine. Turkle shows how the computer brings postmodern ideas about decentered identity “down to earth,” tracing the Internet’s impacts on relationships, work, and self-concept. citeturn10search3turn10search2