Mark Dery
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Mark Dery (born 1959) is an American author, lecturer and cultural critic. He writes about "media, the visual landscape, fringe trends, and unpopular culture" and teaches media criticism and literary journalism in the Department of Journalism at New York University.
He describes his stance thus:
- I'm as weary of the politicization of aesthetics as I'm wary of the aestheticization of politics. The Walter Benjamin in me is trying to make peace with my inner Georges Bataille. ... Aesthetically, however, I'm interested in the unlit, unfrequented corners of society, the nethermost regions of the self: freaks, forensic pathology, true crime, conspiracy theory, cannibalism, madness, medical museums, Art Brut, weird science, sexual deviance, soft tissue modification (by tribal peoples and postmodern primitives), creature features, alien abductions, insects, Situationism, Surrealism, science fiction, the gothic, the grotesque, the carnivalesque -- in short, extremes and excess of every sort. I want to induce, in my reader, the vertigo that comes from leaning too far over the edge of the cultural abyss. -- Mark Dery http://www.levity.com/markdery/inform.html
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Bibliography
- Culture Jamming: Hacking, Slashing and Sniping in the Empire of Signs Open Magazine Pamphlet Series, Open Magazine, 1993.
- Flame Wars: The Discourse of Cyberculture (ed.) Duke University Press, 1994. ISBN 0-8223-1540-8
- Escape Velocity: Cyberculture at the End of the Century Grove Press, 1996. ISBN 0-8021-3520-X
- The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium: American Culture on the Brink Grove Press, 1999. ISBN 0-8021-3670-2
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