University of Aberdeen

Graduate Student, The Centre for Modern Thought

PhD student

School of Language and Literature

Advisor: Professor Chris Fynsk

About

I'm mostly interested in phenomenologies of the body as seen through networks of space, time, place, movement and change.  Political ontologies and productions of subjectivity are key features in my work, as is the return to a Marxist/Hegelian metaphysics of presence.  My philosophical background is 20th century French thought (particularly Bergson, Merleau-Ponty, Deleuze) and post-Kantian German Idealism (Hegel and Schelling). 

My research is currently geared toward state, space and the city.  I'm interested in "condemned" architectures of the metropolis, and our engagement with these sites as a channel for cultural encounters and formations of identity.  Lately I've been critiquing the politico-philosophical debates from the Italian Left - from Virno, Agamben and Negri - and looking closely at the theories of Benjamin, Stiegler and Foucault.

I also thoroughly enjoy those works of the speculative realists, and those looking at the aesthetics of decay.




"Of such dreams and of the rituals of them there can also be no end.  The thing that is sought is altogether other.  However it may be construed within men's dreams or by their acts it will never make a fit.  These dreams and these acts are driven by a terrible hunger.  They seek to meet a need which they can never satisfy, and for that we must be grateful. --Cormac McCarthy, /Cities of the Plain/

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Address: Centre for Modern Thought · School of Language & Literature
University of Aberdeen · King's College · Aberdeen AB24 3UB

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