David VellaDAVID VELLA is a lecturer on modern and contemporary literature at the University of Malta and on philosophy at St Edward's College. His research interests range from mysticism and ethics to contemporary dystopian fiction, existential phenomenology, he sociology of late modernity, and identity studies. He has written essays on Michel Houellebecq, mainstream consumerist identities, and conscience. He is the author of Refiguring Identity in Corporate Times: Or Rediscovering Oneself in a Consumer Culture. He lives in Malta. Read More Read Less