Charlie Blake is Senior Lecturer in Critical and Cultural Theory at Liverpool Hope University, UK. He has recently co-edited a two volume study for the journalAngelakientitledShadows of Cruelty: Sadism, Masochism & the Philosophical Muse, and contributed 'A Preface to Pornotheology: Spinoza, Deleuze & the Sexing of Angels' toDeleuze and Sex(Edinburgh UP, 2011) and Pirate Multiplicities' on Pessoa, Badiou and the graphic fiction of Alan Moore forStudies in Comics2:1 (Intellect, 2011). He is now working on the politics of pornotheology and the emergent field of spectral materialism in connection with art, music and cinema.

Claire Molloy is Senior Lecturer in the School of Politics, History, Media & Communication at Liverpool Hope University, UK and a Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. She has published on anthropomorphism, representations of animals in videogames and literature and dangerous dogs, media and risk. She is the author ofMemento(EUP 2010) andPopular Media and Animal Ethics(Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) and co-editor ofAmerican Independent Cinema: Indie, Indiewood and Beyond(Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).

Steven Shakespeare is Lecturer in Philosophy at Liverpool Hope University and a Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. His publications includeThe Inclusive God(co authored with Hugh Rayment-Pickard, SCM, 2006),Radical Orthodoxy: A Critical Introduction(SPCK, 2007) andDerrida and Theology(T and T Clark, 2009).