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Turkles beautifully written book which recounts her personal intellectual and professional journey in order to adequately artic... Read More
As a proud feminist i was especially drawn into her struggles with the patriarchal dominance of academia in her time as a new professor
My having survived a phd program had a lot to do with the offputtinghum
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The author shows us her most unpleasant life lessons in the form of stories and sums up how they led her to rediscover the concept of treating people as ends not means
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Oh and by the way shes a brilliant sociologist too there are little gems of human insight all through the book
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We have all experienced the dehumanization and loss of empathy wrought by the omnipresence of technology and ms
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My first reaction to this book as a well educated woman of turkle’s generation was that i felt kind of stupid
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As i read i picked up something like resonant inaudible hum that put me off
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I left academia because my writing contained a similar hum
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A trying too hard everything related needing to be communicated at once being interested in things that were not hot topics
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From the father of my then girlfriend did not get the girl