Dominic Smith

Dominic Smith is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Dundee, where he researches philosophy of technology/media. Dominic is particularly interested in bringing the continental tradition in philosophy (e.g. phenomenology, critical theory, poststructuralism, new forms of realism and materialism) to bear on philosophy of technology and media. He is a founding member of the Scottish Centre for Continental Philosophy at Dundee (http://scot-cont-phil.org/), and plays in the punk band Kaddish (https://kaddishuk.bandcamp.com/). Dominic’s latest book is Exceptional Technologies: A Continental Philosophy of Technology. His current project involves thinking about how philosophy of technology can be broadened to speak to issues in philosophy of education, design, and creativity, with a focus on the work of Walter Benjamin. Dominic is co-convenor of the Master in Fine Arts with Arts and Humanities (MFA-AH) with Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design at Dundee (DJCAD), and has taught on the longstanding Art and Philosophy (AP) degree run between Philosophy and DJCAD since 2013. Dominic has been an executive member of the Society for European Philosophy since 2015, and regularly reviews for book series and journals across philosophy and the visual arts, including Philosophy and Technology; Deleuze Studies; Theory, Culture and Society; Leonardo; the Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology. Dominic is co-editor for the forthcoming collection A Margin of Indeterminacy: Contingency and Plasticity in Everyday Technologies (Rowman and Littlefield, with Lushetich and Campbell), and is a Co-investigator on the AHRC-funded InGAME project (with the Universities of Abertay and St. Andrews).