JOIN THE CAR-CRASH SET: Join me next week, in San Diego, for a free lecture: “'Earth is the Alien Planet': J.G. Ballard, Abject Landscapes, Posthuman Fictions." 4/12, UCSD, https://qi.ucsd.edu/events/earth-is-the-alien-planet-lecture-by-mark-dery/; 4/13, SDSU, 11 AM, Physics Room P 147. #jgballard #anthropocene #posthuman

When will establishment American media stop serving as Netanyahu's unpaid flacks by calling the Israeli far right's scheme to gut democracy by hobbling Israel's Supreme Court an "overhaul" or a "reform"? It's a Faustian pact between a corrupt prime minister and religious extremists--the Ultra-Orthodox tail that, more and more, wags the dog--to cut Israel's democracy off at the knees. https://twitter.com/OrenZiv_/status/1639666224006156290

"In Trump’s America, narratology times demonology equals eschatology, the violent rapture of the civil war so many of them are eagerly prepping for." My review, in @4_columns, of "The Undertow," Jeff Sharlet's Wisconsin death trip through Trumpland. https://4columns.org/dery-mark/the-undertow