From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: [OT] reading recommendations? 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X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:101650 Archived-At: Rusi writes: > 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? The only off-list suggestion that wasn't also made on-list was Marshall McLuhan. I've browsed through these things very lightly, and so far the one that looks like it might be closest to what I was after is the David Skrbina, "The Metaphysics and Technology", except holy crap it's a $100 KINDLE EBOOK. $100 is such a nice, round, "go away we don't want you to read this" number. Eric