CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE
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Alan Sondheim is a
nationally-recognized writer and cyberspace theorist who comoderates three email lists,
Cybermind, Fiction-of-Philosophy, and E-conf (electronic conferencing), on the Internet. He has
published over a hundred and twenty articles, and has lectured at a number of venues on the
Internet and Information Highway. He teaches and lectures on issues of on-line culture and
community at various venues, including Lang College at the New School for Social Research. He
has an M.A. from Brown University and currently lives in Fukuoka, Japan.
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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 include
On a Philosophical Implication of
the Astronomical Big Bang Theory, from
TAF issue #1,
The Doom Of Religion,
from TAF
issue #2, I Stink, Therefore I Am from TAF issue #3, and An Email Debate from
TAF issue #4.
His "brand-new-in-construction-wild-wife-web-mastered web page" can
be viewed here.
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Ben Ohmart Ben
Ohmart has had 100s of stories and poems in zines and journals, and had 4 plays produced last
year. His lyrics will be on 2 CDs this year, 1 a gothic album, the other a rock album. He's
currently writing films, with hopes of having one done in Malaysia soon, and is also trying to break
into the prison of television. He's white, 26, single and loves British comedy. He lives in Boalsburg,
PA, right next to PSU, and enjoys watching rabbits eat his garbage.
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Kyung-Soo Ho is a York
University English M.A. student. He is a 26 year old Korean Canadian. He has published his
works in various magazines, but this is his first piece on the net.
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Christopher Stolle
(aka The Poet Man) is a senior at Indiana University majoring in journalism and education. He has
published poems extensively throughout the U.S. and overseas. His previous contribution to
TAF include 3 poems from
TAF Issue #3
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Morbus is a prolific
writer who enjoys many things... he relishes in creating something HE likes, which is often hard
to do. He feels the need to fill gaps in areas best left alone. The founder of
Disobey, he is often very tired and has enough to do
already. His real name is Kevin Hemenway. He currently lives in Concord, New Hampshire.
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Joel McNamara is a
security/privacy consultant who's been using the Net for the past 15 years.
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C.J. Janovy is an
assistant editor and media critic at
Pitchweekly, Kansas City's alternative
newsweekly. C.J.'s work has also appeared in The Progressive, Ms., the New York Times and
New Letters (fiction). C.J. also teaches English Composition part time at Kansas City area
community colleges.
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