David Ashford

David Ashford studied at the University of York and completed a PhD on twentieth-century fiction and theories of urban space at the University of Cambridge in 2008. For the past two years he has been a lecturer in the new English Department at the University of Surrey. He is currently working on two projects for Zero Books – an innovative publisher that has succeeded in making books on philosophy, aesthetics and politics available to a wide readership without compromising on content. The first of these two books examines the challenges posed to the Cartesian Subject in the early twentieth century, and the measures taken by modernist writers, artists and architects against this perceived threat: GORILLAS IN THE HOUSE OF LIGHT. The second is a cultural history of the London Underground called THE NOWHERE MACHINE. Both are due to published in 2012.