Index of contributors

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Mark Ames

is the editor of Exiled Online. He writes the Backstabber column for Playboy.com and is the author of ‘Going Postal: Rage, Murder, and Rebellion: From Reagan’s Workplaces to Clinton’s Columbine and Beyond’.

Lenny Antonelli
is a Dublin-based journalist who writes about science, politics and architecture. He has contributed to the Irish Times, Science Spin and Construct Ireland.

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Dr Andrew Calcutt
is a ‘hackademic’ – a journalist and professor at the University of East London. He is the author of ‘White Noise: An A-Z of the Contradictions in Cyberspace’, ‘Arrested Development: Pop Culture and the Erosion of Adulthood’ and ‘Beat: The Iconography of Victimhood from the Beat Generation to Princess Diana’.

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Stephen Ginn
is a psychiatrist based in London.

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Dr Francis Halsall
is an art historian at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin.

James Heartfield

is a writer and lecturer in London. He is the author of ‘Need and Desire in the Post-Material Economy’, ‘The Death of the Subject Explained’ and ‘Green Capitalism: Manufacturing Scarcity in an Age of Abundance’ and has contributed to Blueprint, Art Review, Living Marxism, Spiked, Arena Magazine (Australia), the Guardian, the Times Educational Supplement, Chinascope, Renewal: the Journal of Social Democracy, Rising East and Eurozine. His web site is heartfield.org.

David Hunter
is a graphic artist based in Ireland.

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Finbar Krook Rosato is a curator and critic based in Stockholm.

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Declan Long
is a senior lecturer in art the contemporary world at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin.

Rob Lyons
is a journalist, editor and IT developer.

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Stephen McGlennon
is a freelance writer based in Belfast.

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Brendan O’Neill

is the editor of Spiked. Described by British newspaper, the Daily Telegraph, as “one of this country’s sharpest social commentators” and by the BNP as “a loony leftie hack”, O’Neill has contributed to the Guardian, the Christian Science Monitor, New Statesman, the Spectator, the Guardian, the Sunday Times, the British Journalism Review, the Press Gazette, the Catholic Herald, Salon, Slate, Living Marxism and the American Conservative.

Richard O’Rourke

is a biochemist and engineer.

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Dave Ruffles
is a photographer based in County Galway.

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Vincent Salafia
is a lawyer and campaigner based in Ireland.

Richard Stallman

is a political activist and computer programmer.

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Jason Walsh

is the editor of forth and writes about politics, culture and technology. He has contributed to the Irish Times, the Irish Examiner, Daily Ireland, the Sunday Times, the Guardian, the Independent, the Christian Science Monitor, Magill, Village, Business and Finance, Wired, Mute, Rising East, the Dubliner, Diplo and dozens of technology magazine. He is a frequent guest on the PC Live radio show on RTÉ Choice in Dublin, Limerick and Cork. His personal web site is jasonwalsh.ie.

Patrick West

is a freelance writer based in the UK and Ireland. He has written for The Times, the New Statesman, The Spectator, the Times Literary Supplement, The Irish Times, The Daily Telegraph, Living Marxism and The Catholic Herald among others. He is author of Conspicuous Compassion (Civitas, 2004), The Poverty of Multiculturalism (Civitas, 2005), Beating Them At Their Own Game, How The Irish Conquered English Soccer (Liberties Press, 2006), and editor of The Times Questions Answered (HarperCollins, 2004). He writes weekly about television for spiked.