Simulation and Its Discontents
暫譯: 模擬及其不滿

Turkle, Sherry, Clancey, William J., Helmreich, Stefan

Simulation and Its Discontents
  • 出版商: Summit Valley Press
  • 出版日期: 2009-05-01
  • 售價: $1,430
  • 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $1,359
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 217
  • 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
  • ISBN: 0262012707
  • ISBN-13: 9780262012706

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How the simulation and visualization technologies so pervasive in science, engineering, and design have changed our way of seeing the world.

Over the past twenty years, the technologies of simulation and visualization have changed our ways of looking at the world. In Simulation and Its Discontents, Sherry Turkle examines the now dominant medium of our working lives and finds that simulation has become its own sensibility. We hear it in Turkle's description of architecture students who no longer design with a pencil, of science and engineering students who admit that computer models seem more "real" than experiments in physical laboratories.

Echoing architect Louis Kahn's famous question, "What does a brick want?", Turkle asks, "What does simulation want?" Simulations want, even demand, immersion, and the benefits are clear. Architects create buildings unimaginable before virtual design; scientists determine the structure of molecules by manipulating them in virtual space; physicians practice anatomy on digitized humans. But immersed in simulation, we are vulnerable. There are losses as well as gains. Older scientists describe a younger generation as "drunk with code." Young scientists, engineers, and designers, full citizens of the virtual, scramble to capture their mentors' tacit knowledge of buildings and bodies. From both sides of a generational divide, there is anxiety that in simulation, something important is slipping away. Turkle's examination of simulation over the past twenty years is followed by four in-depth investigations of contemporary simulation culture: space exploration, oceanography, architecture, and biology.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

模擬與視覺化技術在科學、工程和設計中無處不在，如何改變了我們看待世界的方式。

在過去的二十年中，模擬和視覺化技術改變了我們看待世界的方式。在模擬及其不滿一書中，Sherry Turkle 探討了當今主導我們工作生活的媒介，並發現模擬已經成為一種獨特的感知方式。我們在 Turkle 對建築學生的描述中聽到這一點，他們不再用鉛筆設計，科學和工程學生承認，電腦模型似乎比物理實驗室中的實驗更“真實”。

呼應建築師 Louis Kahn 的著名問題“磚頭想要什麼？”，Turkle 問道：“模擬想要什麼？”模擬渴望，甚至要求沉浸，而其好處顯而易見。建築師創造出在虛擬設計之前無法想像的建築；科學家通過在虛擬空間中操控分子來確定其結構；醫生在數位化的人體上練習解剖學。然而，沉浸在模擬中，我們變得脆弱。這其中有損失，也有獲得。年長的科學家形容年輕一代為“醉心於程式碼”。年輕的科學家、工程師和設計師，作為虛擬世界的完全公民，努力捕捉他們導師對建築和人體的隱性知識。在代際之間，雙方都感到焦慮，認為在模擬中，有些重要的東西正在流失。Turkle 對過去二十年模擬的探討之後，隨之而來的是對當代模擬文化的四個深入研究：太空探索、海洋學、建築學和生物學。

作者簡介

Sherry Turkle is Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at MIT and Founder and Director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self. A psychoanalytically trained sociologist and psychologist, she is the author of The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit (Twentieth Anniversary Edition, MIT Press), Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet, and Psychoanalytic Politics: Jacques Lacan and Freud's French Revolution. She is the editor of Evocative Objects: Things We Think With, Falling for Science: Objects in Mind, and The Inner History of Devices, all three published by the MIT Press.

William J. Clancey is Chief Scientist of Human-Centered Computing in the Intelligent Systems Division at NASA Ames Research Center, and Senior Research Scientist at the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition.

Stefan Helmreich is Elting E. Morison Professor of Anthropology at MIT. He is the author of Alien Ocean, Sounding the Limits of Life, and Silicon Second Nature.

Yanni Alexander Loukissas is Assistant Professor of Digital Media in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at Georgia Institute of Technology. He is the author of Co-Designers: Cultures of Computer Simulation in Architecture.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

Sherry Turkle 是麻省理工學院社會科學與科技研究的 Abby Rockefeller Mauzé 教授，也是麻省理工學院科技與自我倡議的創始人及主任。她是一位受過精神分析訓練的社會學家和心理學家，著有《第二自我：電腦與人類精神》（二十週年版，麻省理工學院出版社）、《螢幕上的生活：網路時代的身份》以及《精神分析政治：雅克·拉岡與弗洛伊德的法國革命》。她還編輯了《喚起物件：我們思考的事物》、《愛上科學：心中的物件》以及《裝置的內在歷史》，這三本書均由麻省理工學院出版社出版。

William J. Clancey 是美國國家航空暨太空總署艾姆斯研究中心人本計算的首席科學家，並且是佛羅里達州人類與機器認知研究所的高級研究科學家。

Stefan Helmreich 是麻省理工學院人類學的 Elting E. Morison 教授。他著有《外星海洋：探尋生命的極限》和《矽的第二自然》。

Yanni Alexander Loukissas 是喬治亞理工學院文學、媒體與傳播學院的數位媒體助理教授。他著有《共同設計者：建築中的電腦模擬文化》。

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