Jamie Davies, PhD Researcher

Research interests:

I am interested in the construction, and cultivation, of subjectivity and how technics, truth, and our wider habitus influences, informs, and orientates this specific construction. I also research how politics, ethics, and their offshoot, nationalism, coalesce to form competing systems which each respond, albeit in different ways, to the contradictions inherent in contemporary subjectivity.

Bio:

I am a writer and researcher currently living in Bristol, working in an inner-city college tutoring English. I have just finished my book The Work of The Subject, which explores subjectivity from the perspective of use, interrogating principally how the concept of use allows us to re-think subjectivity from an emancipatory, ecological perspective. I am now working on a novel, The Amorous Invocation, which takes Barthes' concept of the amorous subject in A Lover's Discourse as its fictional point of departure.

2021, Masters of Arts: English Literature, Distinction, Cardiff University