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Mark Dery
Mark Dery is a cultural critic. He has been a professor of journalism at NYU, a Chancellor's Distinguished Fellow at UC Irvine, and a Visiting Scholar at the American Academy in Rome. He is associated with the concept of “Afrofuturism,” a term he coined in his 1994 essay “Black to the Future.” His books include Escape Velocity: Cyberculture at the End of the Century (1997), The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium: American Culture on the Brink (1999), and I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts: Drive-by Essays on American Dread, American Dreams (2012).