About Tim Rayner
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Tim Rayner is a writer, ideationist, and disruptive thinker with a background in higher education (Philosophy) and social media activism. He is passionate about transformative solutions to wicked problems. Tim is developing material for a book on the future of social media. His book Life Changing: A Philosophical Guide will be published in May 2012.
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Tim grew up in Auckland, New Zealand, with formative stints in Indonesia and the United Kingdom. In 1999, he moved to Sydney, Australia, to do a PhD in philosophy. Between 2002 and 2008, he taught philosophy at USYD and UNSW and edited an online journal, Contretemps. He has published academic papers and a book, Foucault’s Heidegger: Philosophy and Transformative Experience (Continuum UK 2007).
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Tim is the writer of the short film ‘Coalition of the Willing’ (2010). ‘Coalition of the Willing’ is a collaborative animated film, directed by Simon Robson, about an open source approach to the war on global warming. You can watch the film online here. ‘Coalition of the Willing’ has won three awards: Best Short Film at the 2012 San Francisco Green Film Festival, the Grand Jury Prize at the 2010 Hampton International Film Festival, the Waverley Award for Best Environmental Short Film at the 2011 Sydney FlickerFest.
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To contact Tim, email tim at timrayner dot net or comment on this website.
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Twitter: @timrayner01
The novel looks cool. Are you going to be doing research for the next one during your trip to the US next year?
hey, I just put an order in to buy your transformative experience book. Looks fascinating!
US research? Absolutely. First, though, I’ll need to visit half a dozen sites on the east coast to check that my Google Maps research for the last one was correct. I tried to locate the action in real sites, which took some imagination since I was viewing them from 200 ft in the air!