Mark Dery
@markdery.bsky.social
Cultural critic. Author. Coined "Afrofuturism." Theorized "culture jamming." Antifascist AF. Editor/writing coach for hire: https://coaching.markdery.com/. Read me: https://www.markdery.com/articles/
Pinned
Honored to be tapped by @roychristopher.com to write the foreword to POST-SELF, his foray into black-metal philosophy and "the dark urge to escape flesh and mortality by any means necessary" (Christopher). A grimoire for the Misanthropocene.
#eugenethacker #bodyhorror #blackmetal #truedetective
#eugenethacker #bodyhorror #blackmetal #truedetective
November 9, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Honored to be tapped by @roychristopher.com to write the foreword to POST-SELF, his foray into black-metal philosophy and "the dark urge to escape flesh and mortality by any means necessary" (Christopher). A grimoire for the Misanthropocene.
#eugenethacker #bodyhorror #blackmetal #truedetective
#eugenethacker #bodyhorror #blackmetal #truedetective
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Note to NY Times editors: If your aim is to alienate and drive off your core readership, letting Ross Douthat off the hook like this is definitely the way to go. But if not . . . .
(BTW, it didn't, from this cis straight male POV.)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/o...
(BTW, it didn't, from this cis straight male POV.)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/o...
Opinion | Did Liberal Feminism Ruin the Workplace?
www.nytimes.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Note to NY Times editors: If your aim is to alienate and drive off your core readership, letting Ross Douthat off the hook like this is definitely the way to go. But if not . . . .
(BTW, it didn't, from this cis straight male POV.)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/o...
(BTW, it didn't, from this cis straight male POV.)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/o...
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More to the point, what if Ross Douthat went out with a whimper?
November 8, 2025 at 2:47 PM
More to the point, what if Ross Douthat went out with a whimper?
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Imagine telling someone in the 1970s that the NYT and WaPo are bending the knee to fascists while Glamour and Teen Vogue are the journalistic champions of human rights and democracy.
I hope you’re all proud of yourselves, you have disgracefully sullied the good name of the renowned and respected Glamour Magazine Women Of The Year Award
October 31, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Imagine telling someone in the 1970s that the NYT and WaPo are bending the knee to fascists while Glamour and Teen Vogue are the journalistic champions of human rights and democracy.
Desperate for relevance after years of both-sides-ism on MAGA and pandering to the anti-woke with trolls like Bari Weiss, Pamela Paul, Douthat, NYT offers @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social its plastic pearls of wisdom, counseling (what else?) appeasement--after its smear-and-fear campaign against him #NYT
November 7, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Desperate for relevance after years of both-sides-ism on MAGA and pandering to the anti-woke with trolls like Bari Weiss, Pamela Paul, Douthat, NYT offers @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social its plastic pearls of wisdom, counseling (what else?) appeasement--after its smear-and-fear campaign against him #NYT
Working Families Party is *on fire*. They were the locomotive piston driving progressive-populist wins all over. "Get into it, get involved!"--by joining the WFP. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ldu... #WorkingFamiliesParty
November 6, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Working Families Party is *on fire*. They were the locomotive piston driving progressive-populist wins all over. "Get into it, get involved!"--by joining the WFP. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ldu... #WorkingFamiliesParty
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What's wrong with the reactionary, GOP-Lite, intellectually ossified, morally challenged neolib gerontocracy driving the Democratic party off a cliff, in one sentence. What we need is a massive dinosaur die-off, the political equivalent of the Chicxulub asteroid impact. #democrats #ChuckSchumer
November 5, 2025 at 2:27 PM
What's wrong with the reactionary, GOP-Lite, intellectually ossified, morally challenged neolib gerontocracy driving the Democratic party off a cliff, in one sentence. What we need is a massive dinosaur die-off, the political equivalent of the Chicxulub asteroid impact. #democrats #ChuckSchumer
PHILOSOPHERS ON DRUGS: My review of Justin Smith-Ruiu's "mind-stretching, almost manically polymathic meditation on 'psychedelics, philosophy, and the nature of reality," _On Drugs_, is live at The Washington Post: www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...
#TerenceMcKenna #Psychedelics #Philosophy
#TerenceMcKenna #Psychedelics #Philosophy
November 2, 2025 at 6:41 PM
PHILOSOPHERS ON DRUGS: My review of Justin Smith-Ruiu's "mind-stretching, almost manically polymathic meditation on 'psychedelics, philosophy, and the nature of reality," _On Drugs_, is live at The Washington Post: www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...
#TerenceMcKenna #Psychedelics #Philosophy
#TerenceMcKenna #Psychedelics #Philosophy
Who knew that flat-earth fundamentalism founded on the moral code of superstitious, fear-haunted, Iron Age patriarchs would be a gift to hanky-panky?
October 31, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Who knew that flat-earth fundamentalism founded on the moral code of superstitious, fear-haunted, Iron Age patriarchs would be a gift to hanky-panky?
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🎧: Should politicians be allowed to be “news” presenters, such as Nigel Farage on GB News? @arusbridger.bsky.social and @lionelbarber.bsky.social weigh in.
Has Ofcom opened the door to a British Fox News?
Should politicians be allowed to be news presenters? Alan and Lionel weigh in
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
October 31, 2025 at 1:18 PM
🎧: Should politicians be allowed to be “news” presenters, such as Nigel Farage on GB News? @arusbridger.bsky.social and @lionelbarber.bsky.social weigh in.
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Bringing the House back into session doesn't affect Senate negotiations
Brining the House back into session and seating Grajalva means the House votes to release the Epstein Files
Brining the House back into session and seating Grajalva means the House votes to release the Epstein Files
Mike Johnson says he will not bring the House back in session until the government reopens
October 31, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Bringing the House back into session doesn't affect Senate negotiations
Brining the House back into session and seating Grajalva means the House votes to release the Epstein Files
Brining the House back into session and seating Grajalva means the House votes to release the Epstein Files
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On the occasion of Halloween, @newrepublic.com asked me to write about what’s going on in Chicago and I wanted you all to know what randomized terror feels like. And also that as the federal government fails our kids, everyday Chicagoans are showing the courage of trying to protect them.
ICE Is Terrorizing Chicago for Halloween—and Parents Are Fighting Back
Fear and a whiff of tear gas hang over festivities this year. In response, even people who aren’t usually politically engaged are mobilizing.
newrepublic.com
October 31, 2025 at 11:56 AM
On the occasion of Halloween, @newrepublic.com asked me to write about what’s going on in Chicago and I wanted you all to know what randomized terror feels like. And also that as the federal government fails our kids, everyday Chicagoans are showing the courage of trying to protect them.
THEY LIVE! Oligarchic, Mind-Controlling Alien Parasites for Cuomo!
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/n...
#Cuomo #AndrewCuomo #Bloomberg #eattherich #TaxTheRich
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/n...
#Cuomo #AndrewCuomo #Bloomberg #eattherich #TaxTheRich
Bloomberg Gives $1.5 Million to Pro-Cuomo Super PAC
www.nytimes.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:19 PM
THEY LIVE! Oligarchic, Mind-Controlling Alien Parasites for Cuomo!
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/n...
#Cuomo #AndrewCuomo #Bloomberg #eattherich #TaxTheRich
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/n...
#Cuomo #AndrewCuomo #Bloomberg #eattherich #TaxTheRich
Achtung! Making mock of the Horst Wessel of die MAGA partei is now a thoughtcrime. Loyal subjects of the Reich will report any trolling posts or comments to their local Geheime Staatspolizei HQ. Heil Trump!
theintercept.com/2025/10/23/c...
#Trump #Fascism #antiFascism #antifascist #charliekirk
theintercept.com/2025/10/23/c...
#Trump #Fascism #antiFascism #antifascist #charliekirk
The Absurd Prosecution of a Man Who Posted a Charlie Kirk Meme
Larry Bushart Jr. posted trolling memes on a Facebook thread about a vigil for Kirk. He’s been in a Tennessee jail ever since.
theintercept.com
October 27, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Achtung! Making mock of the Horst Wessel of die MAGA partei is now a thoughtcrime. Loyal subjects of the Reich will report any trolling posts or comments to their local Geheime Staatspolizei HQ. Heil Trump!
theintercept.com/2025/10/23/c...
#Trump #Fascism #antiFascism #antifascist #charliekirk
theintercept.com/2025/10/23/c...
#Trump #Fascism #antiFascism #antifascist #charliekirk
WANTED: Members of that endangered species, homo Scriberlus. Must be willing to train the tireless, unquestioning, unpaid automata that will ensure your own extinction. #PRECARIAT #ENDOFWORK #WRITERS #WRITING #CAPITALISM #AI
October 19, 2025 at 2:54 PM
WANTED: Members of that endangered species, homo Scriberlus. Must be willing to train the tireless, unquestioning, unpaid automata that will ensure your own extinction. #PRECARIAT #ENDOFWORK #WRITERS #WRITING #CAPITALISM #AI
Everyday Americans, gleefully telling Anus Horribilis and his fascist kakistocracy to FUCK RIGHT OFF, and doubling down on ANTI-FASCISM. Not shown: Best sign of the day, which read: THIS IS MY RESISTING BITCH FACE. #NoKingsDay #NoKings #Trump #MAGA #Fascism #TrumpismIsFascism #magaFascism #FuckTrump
October 18, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Everyday Americans, gleefully telling Anus Horribilis and his fascist kakistocracy to FUCK RIGHT OFF, and doubling down on ANTI-FASCISM. Not shown: Best sign of the day, which read: THIS IS MY RESISTING BITCH FACE. #NoKingsDay #NoKings #Trump #MAGA #Fascism #TrumpismIsFascism #magaFascism #FuckTrump
REAL AMERICANS: ANTIFASCIST SINCE 1941.
See you at NO KINGS, comrades. And FUCK this fascist kakistocracy and the would-be tinpot dictator who is its mascot.
#NoKings #NoKingsDay #Trump #antifascist #Fascism #TrumpIsANationalDisgrace
See you at NO KINGS, comrades. And FUCK this fascist kakistocracy and the would-be tinpot dictator who is its mascot.
#NoKings #NoKingsDay #Trump #antifascist #Fascism #TrumpIsANationalDisgrace
October 18, 2025 at 2:55 PM
REAL AMERICANS: ANTIFASCIST SINCE 1941.
See you at NO KINGS, comrades. And FUCK this fascist kakistocracy and the would-be tinpot dictator who is its mascot.
#NoKings #NoKingsDay #Trump #antifascist #Fascism #TrumpIsANationalDisgrace
See you at NO KINGS, comrades. And FUCK this fascist kakistocracy and the would-be tinpot dictator who is its mascot.
#NoKings #NoKingsDay #Trump #antifascist #Fascism #TrumpIsANationalDisgrace
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Starmer wanted Labour conference to be about taking chunks out of Farage and his "racist" and "immoral" policies. That isn't happening.
Perhaps he's struggling to seize the moral high ground, says @labourlewis.bsky.social, because he's supporting a racist, immoral war in Gaza.
My report:
Perhaps he's struggling to seize the moral high ground, says @labourlewis.bsky.social, because he's supporting a racist, immoral war in Gaza.
My report:
Labour Is Struggling to Keep Palestine Off Its Conference Agenda | Novara Media
Palestine Action supporters, anti-genocide marchers and pro-Palestine celebrities have disrupted the start of Labour’s annual conference in Liverpool, which the party had hoped would be about anything...
novaramedia.com
September 28, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Starmer wanted Labour conference to be about taking chunks out of Farage and his "racist" and "immoral" policies. That isn't happening.
Perhaps he's struggling to seize the moral high ground, says @labourlewis.bsky.social, because he's supporting a racist, immoral war in Gaza.
My report:
Perhaps he's struggling to seize the moral high ground, says @labourlewis.bsky.social, because he's supporting a racist, immoral war in Gaza.
My report:
Professor Tom Alter, a tenured prof and respected scholar who's being railroaded by a far-right troll and a spineless, reactionary university president.
CALL or WRITE President Damphousse: president@txstate.edu, 512-245-2121 jacobin.com/2025/10/texa...
CALL or WRITE President Damphousse: president@txstate.edu, 512-245-2121 jacobin.com/2025/10/texa...
MAGA McCarthyism Comes to Texas State
In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder, a self-described “anti-communist cult leader” used a selectively edited video to falsely accuse labor historian and tenured professor Tom Alter of inciting violen...
jacobin.com
October 13, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Professor Tom Alter, a tenured prof and respected scholar who's being railroaded by a far-right troll and a spineless, reactionary university president.
CALL or WRITE President Damphousse: president@txstate.edu, 512-245-2121 jacobin.com/2025/10/texa...
CALL or WRITE President Damphousse: president@txstate.edu, 512-245-2121 jacobin.com/2025/10/texa...
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10 years of Donald Trump and Democrats literally have not learned a single thing. A losing party of losers.
October 10, 2025 at 4:25 PM
10 years of Donald Trump and Democrats literally have not learned a single thing. A losing party of losers.
#CULTUREJAMMING lives. "Israel Bombs, U.S.A Pays." NYC.
#Israel #IsraeliWarCrimes #IsraelisATerorristState #israelgenocidalstate #genocide #Genocide_of_Palestinians
#Israel #IsraeliWarCrimes #IsraelisATerorristState #israelgenocidalstate #genocide #Genocide_of_Palestinians
September 30, 2025 at 1:12 AM
#CULTUREJAMMING lives. "Israel Bombs, U.S.A Pays." NYC.
#Israel #IsraeliWarCrimes #IsraelisATerorristState #israelgenocidalstate #genocide #Genocide_of_Palestinians
#Israel #IsraeliWarCrimes #IsraelisATerorristState #israelgenocidalstate #genocide #Genocide_of_Palestinians
My review of the protofeminist, pagan-Surrealist artist Ithell Colquhoun's long out-of-print, now resurrected travelogue-come-dream diary THE LIVING STONES OF CORNWALL, is live at The Washington Post Book Review www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...
#ithellcolquhoun #surrealism #cornwall #neopagan
#ithellcolquhoun #surrealism #cornwall #neopagan
Review | A gender rebel and mystical painter speaks to us decades after death
Recent years have seen a resurgence of interest in the British visionary artist Ithell Colquhoun’s paintings, writing and eccentric life.
www.washingtonpost.com
September 25, 2025 at 3:51 AM
My review of the protofeminist, pagan-Surrealist artist Ithell Colquhoun's long out-of-print, now resurrected travelogue-come-dream diary THE LIVING STONES OF CORNWALL, is live at The Washington Post Book Review www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...
#ithellcolquhoun #surrealism #cornwall #neopagan
#ithellcolquhoun #surrealism #cornwall #neopagan
"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe."
September 23, 2025 at 7:49 PM
"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe."