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relationship between early cinema and electrocution. He is afraid of roller
coasters.
Dennis Rohatyn is Professor of Philosophy at the University of San Diego,
where he has taught since 1977. Author of several books, winner of the Lowell
Davies award for outstanding faculty achievement, member of Phi Beta Kappa,
and former PBS host, he embraces every aspect of inimitable American culture,
in all of its infernal chaos, confusion, and contradiction.
Max Joseph ‘‘Joey” Skidmore, Jr. (MA-Communication and MFA-Theatre
from the University of Missouri-Kansas City) teaches at Avila University. He
also is a professional musician, sound designer, and producer. He has released
six albums of original material with the Joey Skidmore Band. He lives in Kansas
City with his wife and children.
H. Peter Steeves is Associate Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University
where he specializes in ethics, social/political philosophy, and phenomenology.
His books include Founding Community: A Phenomenological-Ethical Inquiry
(1998); Animal Others: On Ethics, Ontology’, and Animal Life (1999); The
Things Themselves: Phenomenology and the Return to the Eveiyday (2006); and
Whacking the Sopranos (forthcoming 2008).