Re: [OT] reading recommendations?

[Damien Wyart]

* Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> 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

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DW