Sam Kinsley
[BSc Hons (Plymouth), MSc, PhD (Bristol)]
With an interdisciplinary background, spanning digital art, human geography and social theory, and industry experience as a web designer Dr Sam Kinsley has been involved in designing, creating and studying technologies as cultural forms. Sam's current research is principally concerned with exploring and problematising the cultures, spacings and temporality of technology. These interests span disciplinary delineation, but Sam's work broadly comes from a perspective between cultural geography and science and technology studies. So, this research broadly pursues three themes: first, geographies of technology - principally practices of innovation and embodied uses; second, spatial imagination and appeals towards a future, not least in relation to 'ubiquitous computing' and 'smart cities'; third, the changing understanding and biopolitics of the human capacity for attention, characterised partially by work concerning an 'attention economy'.
Between 2006 and 2010, Sam conducted PhD research concerning the ways in which futures are anticipated, imagined and produced within the research and development of ubiquitous computing. Key findings from this research are currently being published in international journals. In 2006 he completed the internationally recognised Masters course in 'Society and Space' (Human Geography) at the University of Bristol. He studied and worked at the Institute of Digital Art and Technology, part of the University of Plymouth in the early 2000s, followed by a spell of web development, principally with Nameless Media Group before being tempted back into academia.
Recent publications
2011 "Anticipating ubiquitous computing: Logics to forecast technological futures", Geoforum, 42 (2): pp. 231-240.
2010 "Representing 'things to come': feeling the visions of future technologies", Environment and Planning A, 42 (11): pp. 2771-2790.
Under Review
2013 (Co-Editor) "Paying Attention: Towards a Critique of the Attention Economy", Culture Machine, Special Issue.
Feed
http://www.samkinsley.com/feed/The techno-anthropological virtual
Over on our technophilia blog I recently posted this short introduction and translation of Christia More
Technicity and the Virtual
On the 19th of April I contributed to the ‘virtual space‘ event held by Passenger Films, More
A graphic record of my talk at 10 things I learnt – Design Wales
Last Friday, 9th March 2012, I gave a talk as part of the ’10 things I learnt’ event con More
The beginnings of a ‘Design Fiction’ bibliography
On Friday 10th February I will be talking about ‘design fiction’ for the Pervasive Media More
A bibliography of Stiegler’s work in English
Following Ben Robertson’s lead, and courtesy of Daniel Ross’ Twitter stream (and with his More
