CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE



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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Joel McNamara is a security/privacy consultant who's been using the Net for the past 15 years.

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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