So, went all the way to UEA today to use their library facilities, only to get there and be told I needed proof of address to enter.
Can't afford to do that again this week, so there goes the majority of my day.
Good news is I managed to aquire the book "Evocative Objects" from another student on my course (Bradley's the man!) so the day itself has not been wasted (shame my money has)
All following quotes after the lines are from said book (With the names of those who said it in brackets like this)
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"My biological father had been an absent figure since I was two. My mother had left him. We never spoke about him...gotten rid of any bits and pieces he might have left...Once I found a photograph of a man...with his face cut out of the picture...I knew never to metion the photograph, for fear that it too would disappear. It was precious to me." (Sherry Turkle)
"...choose an object and follow it's assosiations: where does it take you; what do you feel; what are you able to understand?" (Sherry Turkle)
"...a young child believes her stuffed bunny can read her mind; a diabetic is at one with his glucometer. Other objects remind us of people we have lost." (Sherry Turkle)
"When objects are lost, subjects are found." (Sherry Turkle)
"For every object they have spun a world. They show us what they looked upon and what became the things that mattered" (Sherry Turkle)
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"...I play the cello to concentrate, to meditate, to relax....It is the object that is closest to me that I don't share with others...to reconnect to the forces and feelings that drew me to music in the first place." (Tod Machover)
"Much as painters relish a blank canvas, writers a fresh page, or moviemakers a darkened screen, I suppose I will alwayshave a penchant for bits of string and the potentials they suggest." (Carol Strohecker)
"Will we be able to feel the human connection through digital servers? Will we care?" (Susan Yee)
"...Something was missing...I had lost contact with my obsession. I began to recognize the importance of having obsessions." (Mitchel Resnick)
"...my hope is to create new objects that help others find their own obsessions." (Mitchel Resnick)
"I was preoccupied with the idea of protection from an unpredictable world. Protection often came in the form of a glaringly bright, yellow raincoat that kept me dry...on my way to school...More than it's function of keeping rain out, however, it represented my fear of leting anything in - people most of all." (Matthew Belmonte)
"...the raincoat represented my mother's triumph over my own will....the coat came to represent my mother, and I loved and resented it as I loved and resented her. A fear of death...drives us to separate ourselves from our parents...a fear of life...brings us back to seek their protection" (Matthew Belmonte)
""...I slipped between the horns of this dilemma. When I was alone, there was neither the threat of attention from other people, nor the demans to submit to the decisions of my parents...I was immersed in the outside world's flood yet insulated from it...to feel the pressure of the rain...and leave me dry" (Matthew Belmonte)
"The rigid and repetitive behaviours of people with Autism begin to make sense when we consider them as the normal reaction of a human mind to a very abnormal sensory enviroment, rather than as direct symptoms of an illness. Autistic symptoms are what a person does in order to force a chaotic world to follow a predictable script. We are all trying to impose a narrative order on what may seem a fundamentally chaotic world. The difference in Autism is that there is more chaos to be controlled. In this regard, the study of autism can tell us a great deal about humanity in general and how psychological distress can be explained as a rational, if extreme, reaction to a world gone awry." (Matthew Belmonte)*
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(More quotes will be added in time, this was as much as I could snag out of it for today without overloading my brain)
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*Though this paragraph may not have been relevant to my current RR, it struck a personal chord with me that I felt was worth noting down for myself in the future
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