David Bering-Porter
Assistant Professor of Culture and Media
Email
beringpd@newschool.edu
Office Location
D - 79 Fifth Avenue
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David Bering-Porter is Assistant Professor of Culture and Media at the Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts at The New School. 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 The New School. 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.
Degrees Held
Ph.D. in Modern Culture and Media
Brown University (Providence, RI), 2011
M.A. in Modern Culture and Media
Brown University (Providence, RI), 2006
B.S. summa cum laude in Psychology
Excelsior College (Albany, NY), 2003
Recent Publications
2022 “Data as Symbolic Form: Datafication and the Imaginary Media of W. E. B. Du Bois” published as part of “Surplus Data: On the New Life of Quantity,” a special issue of Critical Inquiry Volume 48, Number 2 (Winter 2022). https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/717308?journalCode=ci.
(Refereed Journal Article)
2021 “A Philosophy of Refraction: Vilém Flusser’s Speculative Biology and the Study of Paramedia” in Understanding Flusser, Understanding Modernism, ed. Aaron Jaffe, Rodrigo Martini, and Michael Miller. New York: Bloomsbury Academic. (Refereed Book Chapter)
2020 “Analogy in Ruins: Populism, Transgression, and the Zombie.” Culture Machine 19 (2020): https://culturemachine.net/vol-19-media-populism/analogy-in-ruins-david-bering-porter/ (Refereed Journal Article)
2020 “Media Prophylaxis: Reality TV in the Time of COVID-19,” themed week on “Pandemic Media” for In Media Res: A Media Commons Project (April 2020): http://mediacommons.org/imr/content/media-pandemic (Online Publication)
2019 “White Nostalgia.” In “Stranger Things and Nostalgia Now,” a special cluster edited by Joel Burges and Jason Middleton at Post45 as part of the Contemporaries section. (July 2019): https://post45.org/2019/07/white-nostalgia/ (Online Publication)
2018 “Necrorealism: Turning Bare Life into Art.” 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. http://jordanrussiacenter.org/news/necrorealism-turning-bare-life-art-part/#.Wqwd6pPwZp9 and http://jordanrussiacenter.org/news/necrorealism-turning-bare-life-art-part-ii/#.WqweSZPwZp8 (Online Publication)
2016 “Boutique Ethnicity: On African Ancestry and Neoliberal Economies of the Self” for The Postcolonial World, edited by Jyotsna Singh and David D. Kim. New York and London: Routledge. (Refereed Book Chapter)
2016 “Loops within Loops: Reflections on the Work of Marco Brambilla.” Flow (Volume 23, Special Issue: Loop Media). U Texas Austin. (Refereed Journal Article)
Research Interests
Film and Media Studies Generative Media and Digital Theory
Black Horror AI and Generative Media
Folk Horror and The New Weird Embodied Media
Zombie Movies and Exploitation Cinema Information and Cybernetics
Media Archaeology Data Visualization
Critical Race Studies and Postcolonial Theory Science & Technology Studies
Postcolonial Theory Genetics and Heredity
Contemporary Marxism History of Race
Psychoanalysis and Subjectivity Biopolitics and Neoliberalism
Afrofuturism and Afropessimism Technology and Aesthetics