Re: [OT] reading recommendations?

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Damien Wyart <damien.wyart@free.fr> writes:

> * 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

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.

Cheers,
Eric