Grant Timms

H. Grant Timms holds degrees in Cultural Studies and History (BA), and Theory, Culture and Politics (MA), both from Trent. After studying in the doctoral program at York University in Social and Political Thought, he has returned to Trent to finish his doctoral work in the Cultural Studies PhD program. His current research on Nietzsche, Marx, Spengler, Innis and Deleuze and Guattari focuses on an interrogation of  the ‘mnemotechnics’ of late capitalism.  Current writing projects include a critique of theories of immanent causality and capitalist totalisation through an exploration of the function of debt and obligation in social organisation and its role in the creation of cultural meaning.

His conference presentations include the Deleuze International Conference at Trent in 2003, Congress at UWO in 2004, and the ISSEI conference in Malta in 2006 where he delivered a paper dealing with the concepts of the self and experience in Deleuze’s reading of Hume (“Subjectivity and the Synthetic a priori”). His most recent publication, “The Community Law School: a model for public legal education and civic engagement”, appears in “Research Communication in the Social and Human Sciences” (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008). The chapter was co-authored with colleagues from the Community Law School of Sarnia-Lambton (of which he is a founding member), a non-profit public legal education project that offers courses and workshops on social welfare law topics to marginalized and low-income citizen groups, and social service agencies (http://www.communitylawschool.org/).