Mark Dery

Quick Facts

Full Name	Mark Dery
Occupation	Journalist
Date Of Birth	Dec 24, 1959(1959-12-24)
Age	65
Birthplace	Braintree
Country	United States
Birth City	Massachusetts
Horoscope	Sagittarius

Mark Dery Biography

Mark Dery is one of the most popular and richest Journalist who was born on December 24, 1959 in Braintree, Massachusetts, United States. Mark Dery (born December 24 1959) is an American author, lecturer , and cultural critic. He was a pioneer of the critique and observer of the internet He helped popularize the concept of “culture jamming” and is widely credited with inventing the term “Afrofuturism within his article “Black to the Future” in the anthology Flame Wars: The Discourse of Cyberculture. He writes about visual and media culture, focusing on fringe elements of culture, for a range of publications, including Rolling Stone to BoingBoing.

In the month of January, 2000, he received the title of as Chancellor’s Distinguished Fellow of the University of California, Irvine. At the end of summer 2009 the scholar was resident in the American Academy in Rome, Italy. In 2017 he was a professor of “Dark Aesthetics” (the Gothic The Gothic, the Grotesque The Uncanny The Abject and other aesthetics that are transgressive) in the department of aesthetics at Yale University.

In Flame Wars, Dery wonders, in an essay titled “Black to the Future,” why “so few African-Americans write science fiction, a genre whose close encounters with the Other – the stranger in a strange land – would seem uniquely suited to the concerns of African-American novelists?” In the piece, Dery interviews three African-American thinkers — science fiction writer Samuel R. Delany, writer and musician Greg Tate, and cultural critic Tricia Rose — about different critical dimensions of Afrofuturism, and it is in his introductory essay to “Black to the Future” that Dery coins the term ‘Afrofuturism’, which now figures prominently in studies of black technoculture. He defines it as:

“Speculative fiction that treats African-American themes and addresses African-American concerns in the context of twentieth- century technoculture — and, more generally, African-American signification that appropriates images of technology and a prosthetically enhanced future — might, for want of a better term, be called Afro futurism.”

Dery’s article “Cotton Candy Autopsy: Deconstructing Psycho Killer Clowns” in The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium: American Culture on the Brink (1999) is a close interpretation of the “evil clown” meme.

Mark Dery Net Worth

Mark Dery is one of the richest Journalist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Mark Dery 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Dery is a native of Boston, Massachusetts. He received an B.A. in 1982 from Occidental College in 1982.

In 1990 Dery’s New York Times article “The Merry Pranksters and the Art of the Hoax” gave an early debate in the mainstream media about practices of “cultural jamming” by an emerging group of activists.

From 2001 to 2009, Dery taught media criticism, literary journalism, and the essay in the Department of Journalism at New York University.

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Top Facts about Mark Dery

1. Mark Dery is an American cultural critic and essayist.
2. He coined the term “Afrofuturism” in 1993.
3. Dery has written for The New York Times, Rolling Stone, and Wired.
4. He has authored several books on topics such as cyberculture and fringe subcultures.
5. Dery was born in 1959 in Michigan, USA.
6. He holds a Bachelor’s degree from Wayne State University and a Master’s degree from NYU.
7. Dery has taught at several universities including Yale and NYU.
8. His book “Escape Velocity: Cyberculture at the End of the Century” is considered a seminal work on cyberculture.
9. Dery has been awarded fellowships by the NEA and MacDowell Colony.
10. He currently resides in Asheville, North Carolina with his family.