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About Mark Dery

Cultural critic, essayist, author of 4 books. Coined โ€œAfrofuturism.โ€ Theorized "culture jamming." I write about American mythologies and pathologies. If it makes my scalpel twinkle, it just might end up on my dissecting table.

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