DAVID TREND is Professor of Art at the University of California, Irvine. He holds a PhD in Curriculum Theory and an MFA in Visual Studies. His books include Update Available: The Algorithmic Self (Worlding Books, 2023); Anxious Creativity: When Imagination Fails (Routledge, 2020); Elsewhere in America: The Crisis of Belonging in Contemporary Culture (Routledge, 2016), Worlding: Identity, Media, and Imagination in a Digital Age (2013), The End of Reading (2010), A Culture Divided (2009), Everyday Culture (2008), and The Myth of Media Violence (2007), among others. Honored as a Getty Scholar, Trend is the author of over 200 essays and a former editor of the journals Afterimage and Socialist Review. He lives in Los Angeles, CA
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