The Breaking Time emphasizes eclecticism, welcoming contributors from a variety of fields, backgrounds, and viewpoints. If you're interested, please contact us through thebreakingtime [at] gmail.com
David Forbes - Creator
David Forbes is a journalist, writer, and analyst based in Asheville. Since a young age, he's enjoyed taking systems and ideas apart to see how they work — and how they can change. He created the Breaking Time to help analyze our current era of upheaval and try to figure out practical ways forward from a variety of perspectives.
David works as the senior news reporter for the award-winning Mountain Xpress weekly. He's had work featured by Coilhouse and the Sunlight Foundation, among others. He also writes way too much on Twitter.
Damien Williams - Contributor
Damien Williams works in areas where he can explore the ways in which philosophy, religious studies, pop-culture, weird science, and the academic study of the occult intersect. Damien has worked to bring media professionals, academicians, and non-academic audiences together to investigate the role and impact of the popular arts in academia and the world.
Damien is a graduate of Georgia State University's Master's program in Philosophy and Religious Studies with presentations at four international conferences, and he is published in the compilation, The Immanence of Myth, which was used as part of the curriculum for SUNY Binghamton's course, "The Apocalyptic Imaginary."
Jenny Bowen - Contributor
Jenny Bowen is an arts activator in Asheville, NC. She’s been working in professional photography for over a decade and is a self-taught found-object artist. She graduated from the University of North Carolina at Asheville with a degree in New Media Arts, and currently assists in arts management and cultural programming for the city of Asheville.
Jen takes great interest in contemporary art movements and the possibilities that exist in technology and globalization. She believes that during this changing era, the creative combinations of art and science can transform human culture.
m1k3y - Contributor
Lifelong cyberpunk, anarchist and non-practicing mystery cultist, m1k3y has been covering outbreaks of the future for Grinding, a real world blog spun out of the pages of Warren Ellis' Doktor Sleepless comic, for the past five years.
Ian Boudreau - Contributor
Ian Boudreau is a writer and editor. A former enlisted Army journalist, he has also covered crime, courts, and local politics in upstate New York for The Cortland Standard. Ian now contributes to Angry Black Lady Chronicles and lives in Raleigh, NC with a grey cat.
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