Faculty

Profile

David Bering-Porter is Assistant Professor of Culture and Media at the Eugene Lang College of the Liberal Arts at The New School, USA. Areas of research include film and media studies, new media theory, and the intersections of media, science, and technology. His current book project is a study of undead labor and the ways that race, labor, and value come together in the mediated body of the zombie. His articles have appeared in the journals Flow, MIRAJ, 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

“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, 2016.

“Loops within Loops: Reflections on the Work of Marco Brambilla.” Flow (Volume 23, Special Issue: Loop Media). U Texas Austin, 2016.

“The automaton in all of us: GIFs, cinemagraphs, and the films of Martin Arnold” Moving Image Review & Art Journal (MIRAJ). Volume 3, Number 2. 1 December 2014. pp. 178-192 (15).

“Consuming Ourselves: Capitalism, Media, and the Zombie Apocalypse.” Los Angeles Review of Books (Special Issue, Fall, 2013)

“Toaster-Frakkers and Remote Controls: Technophilia, Cylons, and the Archival Drive” Flow (Volume 7, Special) U Texas Austin, 2007

Research Interests

Film Studies                                                                            New Media

            Contemporary Film Theory                                                     Media Archaeology

            Genre and the Monstrous                                                        Embodied Media

            Zombie Movies and Exploitation Cinema                                Information and Cybernetics

            Visual Culture                                                                          Convergence and Emergence

Critical Studies and Contemporary Theory                             Science & Technology

            Postcolonial Theory                                                                 Genetics and Heredity

            Contemporary Marxism                                                            History of Race

            Psychoanalysis and Subjectivity                                               Biopower and Science Studies

            Feminism and Gender Studies                                                  Technology and Aesthetics