Mark Dery

Mark Dery is a cultural critic. He coined the term “Afrofuturism” (in the 1994 anthology Flame Wars: The Discourse of Cyberculture, which he edited) and popularized the concept of “culture jamming,” which he theorized in his 1993 essay of the same name. His books include The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium: American Culture on the Brink, Escape Velocity: Cyberculture at the End of the Century, and the essay collection I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts: Drive-by Essays on American Dread, American Dreams. His biography of the author, illustrator, and legendary eccentric Edward Gorey is forthcoming from Little, Brown on November 6, 2018

Mark Dery

The Last Time I Saw John Giorno, an Extraordinary Performance Poet

An Update of Edward Gorey’s Classic Abecedarium for Dark Times

Max Ernst’s Collage Novels Are Part Séance, Part Victorian Underworld, and All Uncanny

Mourning eBay’s Days as the Internet’s Kitschiest, Most Surreal Mall

Chuck Berry and the Modernist Fable of “Johnny B. Goode”

The Persistence of Hunger: Dalí’s Dissatisfying Cookbook