Contributors to this Issue

John Eden is active on-line and off via connections to A.I.N., TURBULENCE & RAIDO AAA (BM Box 3641, London WC1N 3XX, England - U.K.). He can reached via various sites on-line including: Chaos & Uncarved.
Gyrus is the groovy editor of the essential Towards 2012 magazine.

Richard Kadrey is the author of the COVERT CULTURE SOURCEBOOK. Bruce Sterling is the author of numerous science fiction books. Both Mr. Kadrey & Mr. Sterling envisioned the idea of the Dead Media Project as an attempt to create entirely new kind of book on media. A media book of the dead which they inviting a user(s) of the Internet to go ahead and write.

Paul Laurendeau is an associate professor in linguistics at the department of French Studies, York University. Influenced by the thought of Spinoza, Diderot, and Marx, he is currently working on a book titled MATERIALISM AND RATIONALITY (PHILOSOPHY FOR THE SOCIAL ACTIVIST). Describing himself as a materialist rationalist atheist, Laurendeau formulates the religious debate in philosophical terms in the tradition of the progressive struggle against the mystical and irrationalist tendencies of philosophical idealism. His previous contributions to TAF enclude On a Philosophical Implication of the Astronomical Big Bang Theory, from TAF issue #1, The Doom Of Religion, from TAF issue #2 and I Stink, Therefore I Am from TAF issue #3. His "brand-new-in-construction-wild-wife-web-mastered web page" can be viewed here.

Nicolas Pattee majored in religious studies (the faithless version, i.e. not theology). He stumbled across the article that was the catalyst for the email debate in this issue by accident while searching for something else but, as he put it, "could not help but read and enjoy that typical specimen of atheistic propaganda." He is "interested in pursuing the deconstruction of the truth concept according to my own special blend of skills and thought systems."

Steve Archer is a artist from the Washington DC area, who currently has the misfortune of being based in Baltimore MD. He studied fine art at the Corcoran School of Art in Washington DC, and has had about 10 solo shows in the past year. He is currently in the process of bringing his company Angelfall Graphics to fruition. In addition to art, steve is very involved in the Baltimore/DC music scene, as a dj at the Baltimore club Orpheus, and in the industrial band Electronic Control Organization. Steve can be reached via any one of the following links: Personal page, Electronic Control Organization, Shadowscene/Reqmass", Tshirts, and finally the Toilet Bowl Ring homepage.

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