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Mythologies of Idiocracy.

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Cultural critic, author of 4 books, former professor (NYU journalism, Yale School of Art). Coined “Afrofuturism.” I write about American mythologies and pathologies. If it makes my scalpel twinkle, it just might end up on my dissecting table.