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STS.044 Technology and Self: Things and Thinking

Prereq: None
Acad Year 2025-2026: U (Spring)
Acad Year 2026-2027: Not offered
9 Units. HASS-S

Explores emotional and intellectual impact of objects. The growing literature on cognition and "things" cuts across anthropology, history, social theory, literature, sociology, and psychology and is of great relevance to science students. Examines the range of theories, from Mary Douglas in anthropology to D. W. Winnicott in psychoanalytic thinking, that underlies "thing" or "object" analysis. Students taking graduate version complete additional assignments. Limited to 15; no listeners.

S. Turkle

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Subject meets with STS.444