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
2011 "Futurity in the making: communities of practice in the anticipation of ‘ubiquitous computing’"
Feed
http://www.samkinsley.com/feed/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
A preliminary bibliography for studies of Code/Spaces
I have begun writing down some thoughts about the co-production of space and place between the human More
Alexander Galloway on Deleuze & computers
I am indebted to @furtherfield for posting a link to the blog communication+1, which has a YouTube More
Reading Bernard Stiegler
I am slowly but surely working my way through Bernard Stiegler’s writings, and really enjoying doi More
