<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV>Did no one here attend Ubicomp? Animism was out in force. In the opening keynote, Bruce Sterling ranted about (that is, against) animism. Brenda Laurel, in the closing session, was all for it. Karen Martin, in the EngD program at the Bartlett, provides a write-up here:</DIV><DIV><A href="http://www.prusikloop.org/mrwatson/?m=200609">http://www.prusikloop.org/mrwatson/?m=200609</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Which reminds me... in 2003, Mike Kuniavsky <<A href="http://www.orangecone.com">www.orangecone.com</A>> wrote an essay about animism and ubiquitous computing while he was a founding partner at Adaptive Path. </DIV><DIV><A href="http://www.adaptivepath.com/publications/essays/archives/000272.php">http://www.adaptivepath.com/publications/essays/archives/000272.php</A></DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Oct 2, 2006, at 9:10 PM, Kazys Varnelis wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV>I always hope to make longer posts and never do, so let's put an end to that idea quick.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>Indeed, this is something we've been covering with AUDC in our upcoming book and, to some extent in the wiki section of our site, audc.org/projects.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>The last chapter of Elaine Scarry's the Body in Pain is a great source on contemporary animism (you stubbed your toe on the garbage can so you threw it across the room. REVENGE! etc.).</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Oct 2, 2006, at 12:03 PM, <A href="mailto:idc-request@bbs.thing.net">idc-request@bbs.thing.net</A> wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 20px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Many human cultures have traditions of animism and the imanenence of<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 20px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">space.I suspect that this cultural history is also part of the drive<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 20px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">to</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 20px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">make an Internet of Things.</FONT></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">iDC -- mailing list of the Institute for Distributed Creativity (distributedcreativity.org)</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:iDC@bbs.thing.net">iDC@bbs.thing.net</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://mailman.thing.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/idc">http://mailman.thing.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/idc</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">List Archive:</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://mailman.thing.net/pipermail/idc/">http://mailman.thing.net/pipermail/idc/</A></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>