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:
- History of Philosophy (Descartes, Political Philosophy, German Idealism, Phenomenology – especially Husserl, Heidegger and Sartre)
- Aesthetics (especially Kant, Nietzsche and Schopenhauer)
- Modern Continental Philosophy (Deleuze, Badiou)
- The essayist tradition in Philosophy (as found in the works of thinkers like Emerson, Valéry, James and Thoreau)
- Philosophy of Technology (especially Heidegger, Marx, Stiegler, McLuhan)
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.
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
- 'Beyond Bartleby and Bad Faith: Thinking Critically with Deleuze and Sartre', Deleuze Studies (forthcoming).
- 'Understanding the Media of the Message: Making McLuhan's Assumptions Explicit', 'Contact Forum' series of The Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts (forthcoming).
- Still: New Paintings by Philip Braham (August 2011), ISBN: 978-0-956781-0-3.
- ‘Deleuze’s Ethics of Reading: Deleuze, Badiou, and Primo Levi’, Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, 12:3 (2007).

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