MARK DERY is a journalist and cultural critic. He coined the term “Afrofuturism,” popularized the concept of “culture jamming,” taught at Yale and NYU, and publishes widely on pop culture, art, and American life. His books include Flame Wars (1994), a seminal anthology of writings on digital culture; Escape Velocity: Cyberculture at the End of the Century (1996), which has been translated into eight languages; and two studies of American mythologies and pathologies, The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium: American Culture on the Brink (1999) and the essay collection I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts: Drive-by Essays on American Dread, American Dreams (2012). Like Gorey, he aspires “to make everybody as uneasy as possible.”