10/24 Mark Dery

Time: 6pm, CFA 112

Mark Dery is a cultural critic. He is the author of Escape Velocity, Cyberculture at the End of the Century and The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium: American Culture on the Brink. His seminal essay, Culture Jamming: Hacking, Slashing, and Sniping in the Empire of Signs popularized the guerrilla media tactic known as "culture jamming"; widely republished on the Web, "Culture Jamming" remains the definitive theorization of this subcultural phenomenon. In Flame Wars: The Discourse of Cyberculture, an academic anthology he edited, Dery coined the term "Afrofuturism" and kick-started the academic interest in black technoculture, and cyberstudies in general. He is the director of digital journalism at New York University, in the Department of Journalism.