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Tom McCarthy is a novelist whose work has been translated into more than 20 languages and adapted for cinema, theatre and radio. His first novel, Remainder, won the 2008 Believer Book Award. His third, C, was a 2010 Man Booker Prize finalist, as was his fourth, Satin Island, in 2015.
Tom is also the author of the study Tintin and the Secret of Literature and of the essay collection Typewriters Bombs Jellyfish. He contributes regularly to publications such as the New York Times, the London Review of Books, Harper's and Art Forum. In 2013, he was awarded the inaugural Windham Campbell Prize for fiction. His latest novel, The Making of Incarnation was published in 2021.
Since 1999, Tom has been the general secretary of a semi fictitious organisation that he co-founded with the philosopher Simon Critchley called the International Necronautical Society, INS, which is, "devoted to mind bending projects that would do for death what the surrealists had done for sex".
Tom's Wikipedia Entry
International Necronautical Society
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Richard Bacon has been a household name for over 25 years in the UK. As a tv presenter he's known for shows such as Blue Peter, Top of the Pops, The Big Breakfast and Good Morning Britain. As a radio presenter he's been on pretty much every channel you can think of. He's started his own production company, Yes Yes Media, creating and producing tv shows, including the very popular I Literally Just Told You.
Richard' Twitter post as he was first admitted to hospital.
Richard's Instagram post and photo thanking the NHS for saving his life 5 years earlier:
“Thanks for everything you did for me 5 years ago today NHS (your 70th).Thanks to the 40 people at NHS Lewisham who worked to save me over 2 weeks.Especially my consultant Vic.Happy 75th.Couldn’t do it* without you.(*Live).The NHS treats more than a million people a day. And we’ve all got our stories.Thank yoooou ❤️.”

Presenter Richard Bacon 'getting better' after days in coma (13 July 2018, BBC)
Richard Bacon out of hospital after coma scare (19 July 2018, BBC)
Richard Bacon thinks about death ‘every day’ as he opens up about nine-day coma (Metro)
Richard Bacon on cancel culture, cocaine and his coma: ‘I’m good at getting back up again’ (The Guardian)
Richard's IMDB
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Katrin Tiidenberg is a Professor of Participatory Culture at the Baltic Film, Media, Arts and Communication School at Tallinn University in Estonia. She has held fellowships at Durham University, Aarhus University and Microsoft Research New England.
Katrin's research focuses on the hows and whys of people's online and social media practices with a particular emphasis on visuality, sex and political participation. Her research engages the most relevant issues of our day, identity, community, norms and power.
How do we present ourselves online? What is normal? Who is in charge? And what happens to sex and to pleasure? She's the author and editor of multiple books on social media and digital cultures and research methods, including Sex and Social Media, Selfies: Why We Love and Hate Them and Metaphors of Internet: Ways of Being in the Age of Ubiquity.
https://katrin-tiidenberg.com/
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Adam Thirwell is an award-winning novelist and screenwriter. Among his best-known books are Lurid & Cute, Politics, Multiples and Kapow!.
His latest novel is The Future Future, which Salman Rushdie described as "A dazzling performance, unlike anything else you'll read this (or any other) year".
He has twice been selected as one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists, received a Somerset Maugham Award in 2008, and was a recipient of the EM Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2015. He wrote and directed Utopia, a short film starring Lily Cole and Lily McMenamy, for Channel 4; and wrote another short film, Everyday Performance Artists – featuring Shia LaBeouf, Gemma Chan and James Norton, and directed by Polly Stenham – which was broadcast on Channel 4 in 2016. His essays appear regularly in the New York Review of Books. He is Advisory Editor at the Paris Review, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
http://www.adamthirlwell.com/


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Professor Carrie Lambert-Beatty is a contemporary art historian. She holds a joint appointment in the Department of History of Art and Architecture and the Department of Art, Film and Visual Studies at Harvard. She's the author of some of the most influential arts writing of the 21st century, including the award-winning book Being Watched, Yvonne Rainer in the 1960s and the essay, Make Believe: Parafiction and Plausibility (pdf). Carrie is also a co-editor at the illustrious arts theory journal October.
Her current research is on 30 years of fiction presented as fact in contemporary art, asking what happens when artworks deceive their audiences? What do the experiences of artists’ trickery teach about contemporary ways of knowing? And how can contemporary art help in developing a progressive epistemic set, one able to counter the culture of post-truth and to resist an epistemic return to order?
Artworks mentioned:
A Tribute to Safiye Behar (2005) by Michael Blum
Nike Ground (2003) by Eva & Franco Mattes
He Named Her Amber (2007) by Iris Häussler
Carrie Lambert-Beatty: What Happens When an Artwork Deceives Its Audience?
Faculty page: https://haa.fas.harvard.edu/people/carrie-lambert-beatty
Website: https://scholar.harvard.edu/lambert-beatty

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Caroline Criado Perez is a writer, broadcaster, speaker and feminist campaigner.
She successfully campaigned to put a woman on the British £10 note in 2013 and campaigned to put a statue of Millicent Fawcett in Parliament Square in 2018 thereby making Parliament Square a little bit less of a sausage fest.
Her book 'INVISIBLE WOMEN: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men' was a Sunday Times #1 best seller, and won both the Financial Times Book of the Year Award and the Royal Society Science Book prize.
Caroline’s Invisible Women Newsletter:
Caroline’s website: https://carolinecriadoperez.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/CCriadoPerez
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ccriadoperez
Sexist snow ploughing https://www.thelocal.se/20131211/snow-plowing-should-be-gender-equal-greens
Notes:
The book Caroline mentioned that opened her eyes to sexism: 'Feminism and Linguistic Theory' https://www.waterstones.com/book/feminism-and-linguistic-theory/deborah-cameron/9780333558898
Author of 'Feminism and Linguistic Theory', Deborah Cameron https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah_Cameron_(linguist)
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