From markdery page_id 130Mark Dery is a cultural critic He writes about American mythologies, American pathologies, the visual landscape, unpopular culture, masculinity, and dark matter of all sorts He is the author of The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium American Culture on the Brink 1999 and Escape Velocity Cyberculture at the End of the Century 1996 He edited Flame Wars The Discourse of Cyberculture 1994 , the anthology that inaugurated cyberstudies as an academic field and kick started the academic interest in techno feminism and black technoculture through Dery s trailblazing essay Black to the Future, in which he coined the term Afrofuturism His 1993 essay Culture Jamming Hacking, Slashing, and Sniping in the Empire of the Signs popularized the term culture jamming and helped launch the movement Widely republished on the Web, Culture Jamming remains the definitive theorization of this subcultural phenomenon Mark has taught in the Yale School of Art and the Department of Journalism at NYU and has been a Chancellor s Distinguished Fellow at UC Irvine and a Visiting Scholar at the American Academy in Rome Mark s latest book is the essay collection, I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts Drive By Essays on American Dread, American Dreams University of Minnesota Press April 2012 Bruce Sterling wrote the introduction Boing Boing s advance praise calls it intellectual journey through our darkest desires and strangest inclinations Luc Sante says it s a trustworthy and entertaining analysis of the lunatic fringe, which constitutes an ever larger portion of the discourse in America today Mark is at work on a biography of the artist, writer, and legendary eccentric Edward Gorey for Little, Brown.