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 journal Angelaki entitled Shadows of Cruelty: Sadism, Masochism & the Philosophical Muse, and contributed 'A Preface to Pornotheology: Spinoza, Deleuze & the Sexing of Angels' to Deleuze and Sex (Edinburgh UP, 2011) and Pirate Multiplicities' on Pessoa, Badiou and the graphic fiction of Alan Moore for Studies in Comics 2:1 (Intellect, 2011). He is now working on the politics of pornotheology and the emergent field of spectral materialism in con...