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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000039.txt from 2005/01

From: Oboeeee@-----.com
Subj: [DR-L] Quote of the Day
Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2005 19:52:15 -0500


"Ours has been called a culture of narcissism. The label is apt but can be=20
misleading. It reads colloquially as selfishness and self-absorption. But=20
these images do not capture the anxiety behind our search for mirrors. We a=
re=20
insecure in our understanding of ourselves, and this insecurity breeds a ne=
w=20
preoccupation with the question of who we are. We search for ways to see=20
ourselves. The computer is a new mirror, the first psychological machine. B=
eyond its=20
nature as an analytical engine lies its second nature as an evocative=20
object."

-Sherry Turkle (b. 1948) U.S. sociologist and psychologist
"The Second Self," ch. 9 (1984)

*Turkle was on the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology=E2=
=80=99s=20
program in Science, Technology and Society. =20

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