This week, Sherry Turkle, MIT professor and author, joins Henry & Colin to discuss her new memoir, The Empathy Diaries. Sherry and Henry talk about their shared experiences of teaching arts & humanities at MIT. Since Sherry’s work is usually interpreted as a critique of technology and Henry’s work is interpreted as a support of technology, they both start by sharing some recent optimism that Sherry has about technology, and some recent pessimism that Henry has about technology. Sherry expresses concerns about people’s apathy about the increasing intrusion of technology in our lives, and how that could potentially lead to the erosion of our rights. Sherry reflects back on the process of memoir writing and questioning her own assumptions earlier in life. She shares a story about being asked to make dinner for Steve Jobs instead of being invited to a meeting with him, and how reflecting on that was a humbling experience. Ultimately, Sherry ends with posing a question about not only how we can see empathy as a pathway into politics, but how we can expand the definition of empathy and apply that to our own lives. A full transcript of this episode will be available soon!Here are some of the references from this episode, for those who want to dig a little deeper:Sherry Turkle’s new memoir, The Empathy DiariesFalling for Science, one of the books she edited of her students’ writingHenry’s blog interview with Sherry TurkleSherry Turkle’s TED talkThe Cult of the Amateur by Andrew KeenHenry and his son on the ASMR communityHannah Arendt on TotalitarianismTrump’s statement that republicans shouldn’t vote in 2022 and 2024 electionsDepaysementFiction that shaped Sherry’s childhood:Nancy Drew - The Secret of the Old ClockJane Austen - Pride & PrejudiceMy Fair Lady stage musicalCurrent TV she’s enjoying:Succession (Influence of King Lear)DickinsonNina Eliasoph, Avoiding Politics: How Americans Produce Apathy in Everyday LifeHenry’s memoir piece about comics and mourning can be found in Turkle’s Evocative Objects book  Allissa Richardson, Bearing Witness While Black: African Americans, Smartphones, and the New Protest #JournalismHenry Jenkins’s Farewell to MITJohn Perry Barlow, “Declaration of Independence in Cyberspace”Julian Dibbell, “A Rape in Cyberspace”Atlas of the Civic ImaginationShare your thoughts via Twitter with Henry, Colin and the How Do You Like It So Far? account! You can also email us at [email protected]:“In Time” by Dylan Emmett and “Spaceship” by Lesion X.––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––In Time (Instrumental) by Dylan Emmet  https://soundcloud.com/dylanemmeSpaceship by Lesion X https://soundcloud.com/lesionxbeatsCreative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/in-time-instrumentalFree Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/lesion-x-spaceshipMusic promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/AzYoVrMLa1Q––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
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