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David Bering-Porter

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David_Bering-Porter@brown.edu

Biography

Year entered: 2004

Dissertation: "Undead: Bodies and Codes of Uncanny Vitality in the Media of Late Capitalism"

David Bering-Porter is a doctoral candidate in the department of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University, studying new media and bio-power through mediations of the body and the archive. His dissertation explores the expression of undeadness, or uncanny vitality, in psychoanalysis, science, and zombie movies.