Practising tomorrows? : ubiquitous computing and the politics of anticipation

This thesis describes the ways in which technological futurity is a complex array of performative and proactive dispositions towards the future that are irreducible to normative and deterministic understandings of 'progress'. It takes ubiquitous computng as a significant case study because...

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Main Author: Kinsley, Sam
Published: University of Bristol 2010
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.559711