Paul Taylor senior lecturer in Communications and Cultural Theory at the University of Leeds. He is a critical theorist educated at Edinburgh University where he read economics and politics for his Undergraduate degree and conducted his PhD thesis on the topic of the early history of computer hackers. Paul has written about a range of philosophers with relevance to media technologies including Slavoj Zizek and Martin Heidegger, has appeared on a number of Radio 4 and Radio 3 programmes including Woman’s Hour, The Verb, Thinking Allowed, and You and Yours.