Mark Dery
@markdery
Cultural critic. Author. Coined "Afrofuturism." Theorized "culture jamming." Antifascist AF. Editor/writing coach for hire: Read me:
Seen in NYC: Speed-dating for socially isolated Heideggerians (who eschew online matchmaking because technology reduces our social worlds to a "standing reserve").
Irrefutable proof, at long last, that we're all descended from Charles Bukowski. (aeon.co/videos/the-s...)
I *knew* the nightmare-carnivalesque mundus inversus ("world turned upside down") of the Trumpocene seemed weirdly familiar! #BizzaroWorld #Trumpocene #Trumpworld
American Hero. This 4th, resist MAGA's fascist Idiocracy and its assault on democracy, decency, and humanity however you can, wherever you can. #fourthofjuly #July4 #JasonWatson #MajorJasonWatson
JAPANESE DEATH POEMS, Yoel Hoffman’s collection of _jisei_, or death poems, “written by Zen monks and haiku poets on the verge of death,” is strangely consoling, even amusing. “Bury me when I die/ beneath a wine barrel/ in a tavern. With luck/ the cask will leak.” Mindfulness for the morbid.
"To resist Zionism is to resist racism, colonialism, imperialism; to resist the wars endlessly fought in its name. This book is my attempt to help rescue the moral and intellectual legacy of the Jewish people from those who, acting in our name, have inflicted so much suffering on the world."
"So much winning." jacobin.com/2026/06/dsa-... #DemocraticSocialism #DemocraticSocialists #Mamdani #NYC
Ray Brassier, in an interview with Marcin Rychter (cengizerdem.wordpress.com/2011/03/05/r...).
The Hipster Trucker Hat reborn as a lid for Millennial mandarins in Manhattan's Lilliput of Letters.
I've launched an Insta channel for my writing coach/developmental editor business. (www.instagram.com/markderywrit...) Once a week, maybe more, I'll post about the Spooky Art of writing, drawing on my deep knowledge of craft. Here's hoping you'll follow, comment, spread the word. #writingcommunity
This Memorial Day, mourn the millions who died in senseless wars, serving the agenda of American empire and its chickenhawk elite. Celebrate the righteous, too: anti-fascists who reduced Hitler's Reich to rubble. May they rest in power--and inspire us to hand today's Nazis their heads. #MEMORIALDAY
All You Need to Know About Class Struggle. (Pyramid of Capitalist System, issued by Nedeljkovich, Brashich, and Kuharich, and published by The International Pub. Co., 1911. H/T @publicdomainrev.bsky.social) #capitalism #latestagecapitalism #ClassStruggle #ClassWar
Seriously hating on Google's redesign of its "Advanced Search" page. Why eliminate "any of these words" field? Why flush left instead of centered, so I have to go fullscreen (oh, right, b/c everything must be optimized for postage stamp-sized phone screens). IF IT ISN'T BROKEN, LET'S BREAK IT!
This Fucking Guy. He's shocked--shocked!--that "Trump has undermined the country’s institutions to a greater extent than he had ever anticipated." He's been "selective in his political activity" even as American democracy smolders in a burn pit and concentration camps are a growth industry. #OBAMA
Peter Neumeyer, Edward Gorey’s collaborator on 3 unbeatably weird children’s books—died on April 2 at the age of 96. Getting to know Peter to the point where I felt entitled to call him friend was, to this Gorey biographer, a thrill that never grew old. He was luminous. Foto: EG and Peter, Cape Cod.
Meta bares its Manus for all the world to see; locker-room vulgarians of the Beevis and Butt-Head persuasion rejoice.
“Death lurks in our every living motion. Dead we’re born, dead we live, and already dead we enter death. Composed of cells living off their disintegration, we’re made of death.” (Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet) #Mementomori #Vanitas #Death
Opinion: Why the Middlebrow Corporate Media Commentariat Is The Kudzu Of The Mind And Should Be Eradicated And Replaced By Young, Radical Voices Unwilling to Drop And Blow Oligarchs.
The Decline of Western Civilization. What's next? A tuxedo sweatsuit that pairs well with Uggs? A mankini suitable for open-casket viewing? A Depend Undergarment for the Mind?
Hey, whatever happened to Venezuela? How's that hope-y, regime-change-y thing working out?