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BARBARA ALICE MANN, an Ohio Bear Clan Seneca, is an assistant professor in the Honors College of the University of Toledo. Her scholarship in Native American studies has resulted in several books, among them The Tainted Gift: The Disease Method of Frontier Advance, George Washington’s War on Native America, Native Americans, Archaeologists, and the Mounds, and Iroquoian Women: The Gantowisas, as well as numerous articles and book chapters. As codirector of the Native American Alliance of Ohio, she lives, writes, teaches, and works for indigenous causes in Ohio.
PAUL D. MILLER, AKA DJ SPOOKY THAT SUBLIMINAL KID is a composer, multimedia artist and writer. His written work has appeared in The Village Voice, The Source, Artforum and The Wire amongst other publications. Miller’s work as a media artist has appeared in a wide variety of contexts such as the Whitney Biennial; The Venice Biennial for Architecture (2000); the Ludwig Museum in Cologne, Germany; Kunsthalle, Vienna; The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh and many other museums and galleries. His work “New York Is Now” has been exhibited in the Africa Pavilion of the 52 Venice Biennial 2007, and the Miami/Art Basel fair of 2007. Miller’s first collection of essays, entitled Rhythm Science, was published by MIT Press in 2004. His book Sound Unbound, an anthology of writings on electronic music and digital media, was recently released by MIT Press. Look out for Miller’s The Book of Ice, a multimedia, multidisciplinary study of Antarctica, which draws from the continent’s inspiring exploration and artistic endeavors.
STELLA OSOROJOS is a freelance writer and Doctor of Oriental Medicine. Her stories have appeared in Condé Nast Traveler, Spirituality & Health, InStyle and more and her memoir, Star Sister, will be published by Evolver Editions in March 2012. She maintains a private practice in energy medicine in Pennsylvania. Find out more at www.osorojos.com.
ELLEN PEARLMAN is currently a graduate student in Telematic Art, or artistic collaborations over high-speed networks. She is also a writer, curator, critic, filmmaker, new media artist and photographer who splits her time between Bushwick, Brooklyn, Beijing, Hong Kong, Calgary, Canada and the rest of the world.
DALE PENDELL is a widely published author and poet. A consultant for herbal product development and botanical surveys, he founded Kuksu: Journal of Backcountry Writing and cofounded the Primitive Arts Institute. The author of the acclaimed Pharmako trilogy, he lives in Penn Valley, California. Further thoughts on money can be found in his futuristic novel, The Great Bay: Chronicles of the Collapse.
DANIEL PINCHBECK is the author of 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl and Breaking Open the Head, among other books. He is the editorial director of Reality Sandwich and cofounder of Evolver.net.
MICHAEL (TEW) RIGBY is a U.S. transplant, originally from St. Helens in the UK, and a long-time activist in the fields of hunger and poverty with a particular emphasis on innovative economic solutions. Former legislative director of RESULTS, he was responsible for the microcredit legislation in the U.S. Congress from 1987–89.
DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF is an author, teacher, and documentarian who focuses on the ways people, cultures, and institutions create, share, and influence each other’s values. His books on new media and popular culture have been translated into over thirty languages. They include Program or Be Programmed, Life Inc: How Corporatism Conquered the World, and How We Can Take It Back, and Coercion, winner of the Marshall McLuhan Award for best media book. His documentaries include Merchants of Cool and The Persuaders. Rushkoff also wrote the acclaimed novels Ecstasy Club and Exit Strategy as well as the graphic novels Club Zero-G and Testament.
ELIEZER SOBEL is the author of The 99th Monkey: A Spiritual Journalist’s Misadventures with Gurus, Messiahs, Sex, Psychedelics and Other Consciousness-Raising Adventures; Wild Heart Dancing; and Minyan: Ten Jewish Men in a World That is Heartbroken, which was the winner of the Peter Taylor Prize for the Novel. He blogs for Psychology Today and The Huffington Post. Visit his website at www.eliezerhuman.com.
HARDIN TIBBS is a futurist and strategist. Now based in England, he used to work for Global Business Network (GBN), the scenario planning firm in California, playing a role in its early development in the 1990s. Trained as an industrial designer, he is a fellow of the RSA in London, and until recently was an associate fellow at the Saïd Business School at Oxford University, where he helped create the Oxford Scenarios Programme. His writing about industrial ecology while a consultant at Arthur D. Little Inc. in the late 1980s helped to define a new way of looking at environment and technology, and his ongoing research aims to chart the future path of industrial society. His website is www.hardintibbs.com.
ROBERT E. ULANOWICZ is professor emertius of Theoretical Ecology with the University of Maryland’s Chesapeake Biological Laboratory. A graduate of the Baltimore Polytechnic Institute and Johns Hopkins University, he served as assistant professor of Chemical Engineering at the Catholic University of America before joining the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory in 1970. His current interests include network analysis of trophic exchanges in ecosystems, information theory as applied to ecological systems, the thermodynamics of living systems, causality in living systems, and modeling subtropical wetland ecosystems in Florida (http://atlss.org) and Belize.
DAVID ULANSEY is a professor in the Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness Program at the California Institute of Integral Studies. He received his PhD in Religion from Princeton University and has taught at Princeton, Barnard College, Boston University, University of California at Berkeley, University of Vermont, and Pacifica Graduate Institute. David specializes in the religions of the ancient Mediterranean, particularly the Mystery religions, Gnosticism, Hermeticism, ancient astronomy and cosmology, and the relationship between religion, myth, and the evolution of consciousness. David is creator and webmaster of www.MassExtinction.net, founder of the Species Alliance, and cofounder of the Planetwork Project.
PETER LAMBORN WILSON is a poet-scholar of Sufism and Western Hermeticism and a well-known anarchist social thinker. He is the author of Sacred Drift: Essays on the Margins of Islam (City Lights, 1993) and Escape from the Nineteenth Century (Autonomedia, 1998), among many other works.
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