Comments for Sam Kinsley

Comment on PhD: “Practising tomorrows? Ubiquitous computing and the politics of anticipation” by Julian Bleecker

Julian Bleecker — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 19:23:18 +0000

Nicely done! I will be looking forward to reading this.

Comment on PhD: “Practising tomorrows? Ubiquitous computing and the politics of anticipation” by sam

sam — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 09:54:55 +0000

Thanks nicolas! I’ll put up a PDF of the thesis once it has been examined, I don’t want to tempt fate

Generally: I’m happy to respond to individual inquiries about the thesis via email, and can provide copies of particular articles or chapters on request.

Comment on PhD: “Practising tomorrows? Ubiquitous computing and the politics of anticipation” by nicolas

nicolas — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 08:45:53 +0000

Congrats! Good luck for this new position.
Will the dissertation be available on-line?

Comment on Hiatus = writing PhD by sam

sam — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:33:47 +0000

Thank you very much CJ!!

Comment on Hiatus = writing PhD by Cj

Cj — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:24:56 +0000

I follow your blog via RSS and I think it’s great. Good luck on that ‘bloody thesis’!

Comment on Future vision of disaster - ubicomp to the rescue?! by Elizabeth Goodman

Elizabeth Goodman — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:21:34 +0000

Hi, Sam —

Just got around to approving this trackback. Months later, I’m still irritated by the video. I think part of what irritates me is exactly that — the pristine, IKEA-style cleanliness. It’ s not just the “clean” disaster which gets to me — it’s also the antiseptic living room in the early part of the scenario. Why is it that there are no knick-knacks in the future?

Comment on Neologisms and making-sense of ‘the new’ by Neologism ~ “spectaculation” « Sam Kinsley

Neologism ~ “spectaculation” « Sam Kinsley — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 12:30:00 +0000

[...] no fan of coining neologisms, but(!) I think I have a need for a word that pithily and succinctly allows [...]

Comment on Ubiquitous Computing video circa. 1991 by Time Capsule 1991 « Pervasive Games: Theory and Design

Time Capsule 1991 « Pervasive Games: Theory and Design — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 11:29:41 +0000

[...] Sam Kinsey put up a video on YouTube on ubiquitous computing circa 1991 that explores the work done by the Xerox PARC Computer Science Labotratory (the video is put together from these clips). The quality of the video is pretty bad, but it features wonderful acting and soothing background music in addition to a historical time capsule. Old research papers rarely convay the excitement felt at the time. This one is restrained, but touching. A mood piece to accompany old papers. [...]

Comment on Getting to know your coffee - interview with ‘La Perla’ by Stephen Leighton

Stephen Leighton — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 18:05:34 +0000

Thanks for the shout out and posting the video’s. Have a great easter

Comment on ‘Better’ tomorrows… by Sam

Sam — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 13:28:30 +0000

Yep, I’ve read ‘Potential Politics and the Primacy of Preemption’ by Massumi, it’s a good paper. Its one of the main sources of my thought on plotting a broader ‘politics of anticipation’ in relation to technology development and envisioning. i think Massumi’s work on preemption and ‘operative logics’ is under-used, it’s good stuff!!