Mark Dery | |
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![]() Mark Dery | |
Born | Braintree, Massachusetts | December 24, 1959
Occupation | Cultural critic, freelance journalist, lecturer |
Nationality | American |
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Mark Dery (born December 24, 1959)[1] is an American writer, lecturer and cultural critic. An early observer and critic of online culture, he helped to popularize the term "culture jamming" and is generally credited with having coined the term "Afrofuturism" in his essay "Black to the Future" in the anthology Flame Wars: The Discourse of Cyberculture.[2] He writes about media and visual culture, especially fringe elements of culture for a wide variety of publications, from Rolling Stone to BoingBoing.