Profile
David Bering-Porter is Assistant Professor of Culture and Media at the Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts at 麻豆传媒色情片. David has lectured, taught, and published on zombie movies and other forms of Black horror, generative media and artificial intelligence, and the intersections of race, culture, and digital theory. David is a founding member of the Digital Theory Lab at New York University and is an ongoing member of the steering committee for the Code as a Liberal Art program at 麻豆传媒色情片. His current book project, under contract with University of Minnesota Press, is titled Undead Labor and is a study of the ways that race, labor, and value come together in the mediated body of the zombie. His writing has also appeared in journals such as Critical Inquiry, Flow, MIRAJ, Post 45, Culture Machine and the Los Angeles Review of Books.
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Degrees Held
Ph.D. in Modern Culture and Media
Brown University (Providence, RI), 2011
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M.A. in Modern Culture and Media
Brown University (Providence, RI), 2006
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B.S. summa cum laude in Psychology
Excelsior College (Albany, NY), 2003
Recent Publications
2022听听听 鈥淒ata as Symbolic Form: Datafication and the Imaginary Media of W. E. B. Du Bois鈥 published as part of 鈥淪urplus Data: On the New Life of Quantity,鈥 a special issue of Critical Inquiry听 Volume 48, Number 2 (Winter 2022). .
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2021听听听 鈥淎 Philosophy of Refraction: Vil茅m Flusser鈥檚 Speculative Biology and the Study of Paramedia鈥 in Understanding Flusser, Understanding Modernism, ed. Aaron Jaffe, Rodrigo Martini, and Michael Miller. New York: Bloomsbury Academic. (Refereed Book Chapter)
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2020听听听 鈥淎nalogy in Ruins: Populism, Transgression, and the Zombie.鈥 Culture Machine 19 (2020): (Refereed Journal Article)
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2020听听听 鈥淢edia Prophylaxis: Reality TV in the Time of COVID-19,鈥 themed week on 鈥淧andemic Media鈥 for In Media Res: A Media Commons Project (April 2020): (Online Publication)
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2019听听听 鈥淲hite Nostalgia.鈥 In 鈥淪tranger Things and Nostalgia Now,鈥 a special cluster edited by Joel Burges and Jason Middleton at Post45 as part of the Contemporaries section. (July 2019): 听(Online Publication)
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2018听听听 鈥淣ecrorealism: Turning Bare Life into Art.鈥 All the Russias (the official blog of the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia). Published in two-parts on February 22 and 26, 2018. and (Online Publication)
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2016听听听 鈥淏outique Ethnicity: On African Ancestry and Neoliberal Economies of the Self鈥 for The Postcolonial World, edited by Jyotsna Singh and David D. Kim. New York and London: Routledge. (Refereed Book Chapter)
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2016听听听 鈥淟oops within Loops: Reflections on the Work of Marco Brambilla.鈥 Flow (Volume 23, Special Issue: Loop Media). U Texas Austin. (Refereed Journal Article)
Research Interests
Film and Media Studies听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听 Generative Media and Digital Theory
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听听听听听听听听听听听 Folk Horror and The New Weird 听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听 听听听听听听听听听听听 Embodied Media
听听听听听听听听听听听 Zombie Movies and Exploitation Cinema听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听 Information and Cybernetics
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Critical Race Studies and Postcolonial Theory听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听 Science & Technology Studies
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听听听听听听听听听听听 Contemporary Marxism听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听 History of Race
听听听听听听听听听听听 Psychoanalysis and Subjectivity听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听 Biopolitics and Neoliberalism 听听
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