Nicholas Ferris Lustig
E-mail: nicholaslustig@ucla.edu
Office: A158 Bunche

EDUCATION

(2007) B.A. Rhetoric with Honors; University of California, Berkeley

SUBFIELDS

urban geography, digital cities, world cities, surveillance studies, Marx, Marxist geography, Autonomist Marxism (esp. Negri), Frankfurt School, police studies, military history/theory, urban design, contemporary French social theory, Foucault, Deleuze, Lacan, complexity theory, psychoanalysis, post WWII American Poetry (Pound, Ashbery, Graham, Mackey),

RESEARCH

Current Projects:

M.A. Thesis: "The Role of Surveillance Systems in the Recent Shift to Urban Governmentalities of Hegemonic Despotism"

"A Marxist Genetic Structuralism in the Early Work of Gilles Deleuze"

"The Future of Surveillance Systems in Urban Areas: Ubiquitous Technology, Dataveillance, CCTV and Cyborgs"

GRANTS AND AWARDS

Phi Beta Kappa ('07)
Graduate Summer Research Mentorship (Summer '09)
Graduate Research Mentorship ('09-'10)

ADVISORS

Nicholas Entrikin
Michael Curry
Lisa Kim Davis

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

"A Later, More Spatial Lacan; A review of recent geographical engagements with French Psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan" given at the Association of American Geographers Annual Conference (2009)