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people > circle members >   Sherry Turkle   Sherry Turkle is Abby Rockefeller Mauze Professor in the Programme in Science, Technology, and Society at MIT and founder (2001) and current director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self. She has written numerous articles on psychoanalysis and culture and on the 'subjective side' of people's relationships with technology, especially computers. She is the author of Psychoanalytic Politics: Jacques Lacan and Freud's French Revolution (1978, 1981, 1992); The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit (1984, 1985, 2005), and Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet (1995, 1997). Most recently, she has edited and written introductory essays for three collections that will appear with MIT press: Evocative Objects: Things We Think With; Objects in Mind: Falling for Science, Technology, and Design; and The Inner History of Devices: New Mediations on Minds, Bodies, and Machines. Her personal research investigates her concept of 'tethering', a new form of social/psychological encounter facilitated by digital technology, as well as on 'relational artifacts', machines that are built to be companions to people. She is writing a book on these topics with the working title Intimate Machines. -- Zamyn, South Building, Somerset House, Strand, London, WC2R 1LA t.+44(0)20 7845 4681   f.+44(0)20 7845 4672   mail@zamyn.org   www.zamyn.org