I'm a cultural critic. My latest book is the essay collection I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts: Drive-By Essays on American Dread, American Dreams, published in 2012 by University of Minnesota Press. I'm also the author of two essay-length (*not* e-book) Kindle singles: "All the Young Dudes: Why Glam Rock Matters" (Boing Boing) and "England My England: Anglophilia Explained" (Thought Catalog). I'm at work on a biography of the writer and artist Edward Gorey, which will be published by Little, Brown in 2015. I wrote The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium: American Culture on the Brink (1999) and Escape Velocity: Cyberculture at the End of the Century (1996). I edited Flame Wars: The Discourse of Cyberculture (1994); in my contribution to that anthology, "Black to the Future," I coined the term "Afro-futurism," now a thriving academic genre. My 1993 essay "Culture Jamming: Hacking, Slashing, and Sniping in the Empire of the Signs" popularized the concept of "culture jamming."