Nathan Collins

Areas of interest

Lacanian psychoanalysis, social photography, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jean Baudrillard, Slavoj Zizek, postmodernism and ethnomusicology.

Biography

Nathan Collins is an International MA student under the supervision of Samir Gandesha. Moving over from Edinburgh, Scotland to Vancouver, his undergraduate dissertation was focused on the lived experiences of individuals utilising social photography in their day to day and how much of their digital worlds were shaped by their own tangible ontological experiences. His Master's research is concerned with an assimilation of Lacanian psychoanalytic theory and the contemporary significance of social photography platforms. Notably, at the core of Nathan's inquiry is an investigation into whether or not social photography platforms, with their focus on aesthetic mediums to communicate, help to transcend the alienation of language as according to Lacan's interpretation of post-structuralist thought.