From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Damien Wyart Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: [OT] reading recommendations? Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 13:07:52 +0100 Organization: Serveur de News Free Message-ID: <54917218$0$1972$426a74cc@news.free.fr> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1418818230 7238 80.91.229.3 (17 Dec 2014 12:10:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 12:10:30 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 17 13:10:27 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Y1DQu-0007oA-W0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Dec 2014 13:10:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49085 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y1DQu-0001DQ-Du for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Dec 2014 07:10:24 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.fsmpi.rwth-aachen.de!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!feeder1-2.proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder2-2.proxad.net!cleanfeed1-a.proxad.net!nnrp4-1.free.fr!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.130012 (Ma Gnus v0.12) Emacs/25.0.50 Original-Lines: 31 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 17 Dec 2014 13:07:52 CET Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.41.244.197 Original-X-Trace: 1418818072 news-3.free.fr 1972 213.41.244.197:36515 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@proxad.net Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:209352 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:101631 Archived-At: * 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 -- DW