{"id":4,"date":"2012-11-30T15:21:30","date_gmt":"2012-11-30T15:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidtrend.com\/?page_id=4"},"modified":"2024-08-05T21:43:36","modified_gmt":"2024-08-05T21:43:36","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/davidtrend.com\/?page_id=4","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DAVID TREND is Professor\u00a0of Art at the University of California, Irvine. He holds a PhD in Curriculum Theory and an MFA in Visual Studies. His books include \u00a0<em>Update Available: The Algorithmic Self<\/em> (Worlding Books, 2023);\u00a0<em>Anxious Creativity: When Imagination Fails<\/em> (Routledge, 2020); \u00a0<em>Elsewhere in America: The Crisis of Belonging in Contemporary Culture<\/em> (Routledge, 2016),\u00a0<em>Worlding: Identity, Media, and Imagination in a Digital Age<\/em> (2013), <em>The End of Reading<\/em> (2010), <em>A Culture Divided<\/em> (2009), <em>Everyday Culture<\/em> (2008),\u00a0 and <em>The Myth of Media Violence<\/em> (2007), among others. Honored as a Getty Scholar, Trend is the author of\u00a0over 200 essays and a former editor\u00a0 of the journals\u00a0 <em>Afterimage<\/em> and <em>Socialist Review<\/em>. He lives in Los Angeles, CA<\/p>\n<p>Contents include discussions of the site cover topics of issues in the fields of cultural and media studies, politics, and education relating to topics concerning identity, representation, and power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAVID TREND is Professor\u00a0of Art at the University of California, Irvine. He holds a PhD in Curriculum Theory and an MFA in Visual Studies. His books include \u00a0Update Available: The Algorithmic Self (Worlding Books, 2023);\u00a0Anxious Creativity: When Imagination Fails (Routledge, 2020); \u00a0Elsewhere in America: The Crisis of Belonging in Contemporary Culture (Routledge, 2016),\u00a0Worlding: Identity, Media, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/davidtrend.com\/?page_id=4\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;About&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidtrend.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidtrend.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidtrend.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidtrend.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidtrend.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/davidtrend.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":802,"href":"https:\/\/davidtrend.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/revisions\/802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidtrend.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}