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Dr Dominic Smith

Contact Details

E-Mail: d.j.y.smith@dundee.ac.uk
Telephone: (0)1382 384672
Room Location: 3.10, Tower Extension

Research Interests

Dr Dominic Smith's research interests include the following:

Dominic wrote his PhD in Philosophy on tensions between Deleuze and Badiou. Since graduating, he has taught philosophy at undergraduate and postgraduate levels at the Universities of Dundee and Edinburgh. His current work at Dundee involves teaching as part of the Art, Philosophy and Contemporary Practices (APCP) course run by the Philosophy department in conjunction with Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design. He is also the course convenor and main lecturer for the Descartes, Thought and Reality and Philosophy and Literature - Understanding Media courses at undergraduate level in Philosophy.

Dominic has published on Deleuze and Badiou, and he's currently working toward papers on Deleuze’s relationship to Sartre and the changing status of thinking in the age of the Internet. His big project concerns Internet technology (how the idea of the Internet functions to shape contemporary human behaviour). He also recently had the great pleasure to write the catalogue essay for ‘Still’, an exhibition by the contemporary Scottish artist Phil Braham, to be shown at this year’s Edinburgh Festival.

Dominic has a fascination with literature, and with how it can develop philosophical ideas. In particular, he loves the work of Proust, Perec, Céline, Vonnegut, Foster Wallace, and the poetry of Dylan Thomas. He also loves walking, and plays guitar in a band called Kaddish, bits of which can be found all over the virtual ether.

Publications