[Sherry Turkle: Today's liminal times]


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"[Sherry] Turkle believes that the pandemic is a 'liminal' (jb link) time, in the phrasing of the writer and anthropologist Victor Turner, a time in which we are 'betwixt and between,' a catastrophe with a built-in opportunity to reinvent. 'In these liminal periods are these possibilities for change,' she said.' I think we are living through a time, both in our social lives but also in how we deal with our technology, where we are willing to think of very different ways of behaving.'” 

 --Sherry Turkle (born June 18, 1948) is the Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Wikipedia); the above citation is from The New York Times (Feb. 26, 2021)

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