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Sherry Turkle Presents "Cyberintimacies" - Download the UO Campus Map Graduate Student Seminar Students are invited to participate in a one-credit seminar, coordinated by Kate Mondloch, assistant professor of art history, in conjunction with Professor Turkle's visit. The seminar will meet twice. Professor Mondloch will lead the seminar on October 5, from 11-1 pm in Lawrence 141. Professor Turkle will lead the October 12 seminar from 11-2 pm in the Knight Library Browsing Room. Participants are required to register in advance: AAA 608: Koehn Colloquia CRN 16137. Space is limited to 20 students. - Download the Graduate Student Seminar Syllabus .jpg "Koehn Colloquia - Cyberintimacies") About "Cyberintimacies"Sherry Turkle, a leading scholar in the study of human psychology, is the distinguished lecturer of the 2007 Koehn Colloquium, a program of the University of Oregon School of Architecture and Allied Arts. Professor Turkle has applied her skill to the inquiry of human interaction with technologies and the changing perceptions of human-machine relationships. Recent years have seen the development of computational entities – Turkle calls them relational artifacts – some of them are software agents and some of them are robots – that present themselves as having states of mind that are affected by their interactions with human beings. These are objects designed to impress not so much through their "smarts" as through their sociability, their capacity to draw people into cyberintimacy. This presentation comments on their emerging role in our psychological, spiritual and moral lives. They are poised to be the new "uncanny" in the culture of computing - something known of old and long familiar – yet become strangely unfamiliar. As uncanny objects, they are evocative. They compel us to ask such questions as, "What kinds of relationships are appropriate to have with machines?" And more generally, "What is a relationship?"
Sherry Turkle is Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at MIT and the founder (2001) and current director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self. She is the author of Psychoanalytic Politics: Jacques Lacan and Freud's French Revolution; The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit; and Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet. Professor Turkle is currently completing a book on robots and the human spirit and editing a three-volume collection to be published by MIT Press on the relationship between things and thinking. The first volume, Evocative Objects: Things We Think With was published in June 2007. The two following volumes, Falling for Science: Objects in Mind, and The Inner History of Devices will be published in 2008. |
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