David Trend is Chair of the Department of Art at the University of California, Irvine. He holds a PhD in Curriculum Theory and an MFA in Visual Studies. His books include 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.

• Belonging Where? Introduction Part I: Belonging There: People Like Us Makers and Takers: When More is Not Enough The Wealth of NationsOther People’s Money The Virtues of SelfishnessCultures of Unreason2. True Believers: Spiritual Life in a Secular Age Surprised by SinTrue Believers?Selective MemoriesA History of Religious Outsiders3. Ordinary People: The Normal and the Pathological Inventing NormalLaws of AveragesStandard DeviationsCommon Denominators4. Homeland Insecurities: Expecting the Worst A Dangerous World? Barbarians at the GatePrivacy Rights and WrongsSomething to HideOrganized Hate Part II: Belonging Somewhere: Blurred Boundaries 5. Reality is Broken: Neoliberalism and the Virtual Economy Neoliberalism RevisitedCitizenship, Inc.The Politics of CultureAesthetic ContradictionsVirtual Rebels6. Mistaken Identities: From Color Blindness to Gender Bending Welcome to "Post-Identity" AmericaThe Race for RacePictures at an ExhibitionBending Sex and GenderVarieties of Gazing7. No Body is Perfect: Disability in a Posthuman Age No Body is PerfectConstructions of AbleismThe Dismodern ConditionThe Posthuman Body8. On the Spectrum: America’s Mental Health Disorder Stigma and DiscriminationOn Invisibility and PassingThe Shame GameThe Affective TurnPolitical FeelingsPart III: Belonging Elsewhere: The Subject of Utopia 9. Gaming the System: Competition and its Discontents No ContestDoing God’s BusinessCapitalism and SchizophreniaThe Power of GivingGame Over10. To Affinity and Beyond: The Cyborg and the CosmopolitanA Cyborg ManifestoThird Person PluralQueering HeterosexualityCrip AnalogiesRealms of Mattering11. Medicating the Problem: The New American PharmakonThe Narcotic Tower of BabelModels of AddictionWriting on DrugsRecoveryBig Pharma12. The One and the Many: The Ethics of Uncertainty Be Here NowPossession and DispossessionThe One and the Many

"This is a terrific book--smart, provocative, engaging, and clearly written. It offers a memorable set of readings for students and scholars alike. Each chapter is a gem of organization, integration, and argument. Trend’s essays lead the reader through a maze of countervailing theories and positions leaving them with a much stronger sense of the complexity of our present time. Trend’s book is less about critique (though the critique is powerful) and more about a kind of hope that is restrained yet feasible." Richard A. Quantz, Professor, Miami University"Trend is a lucid writer able to unmask the internal contractions of the neoliberal order with theoretical and conceptual clarity, as he writes with urgency to make sense of a fractured America in a changing world economy."Rodolfo D. Torres, Professor, University of California, Irvine, and former Adam Smith Fellow, University of Glasgow "Elsewhere in America offers a prescient, non-dialectical approach to alterity, deftly revealing the hidden paradoxes inherent to so-called positions of "center" and "margin" within current media-driven polemics. Skirting binary logic, Trend offers a series of daring new formulations for hybrid positionalities – neither utopian nor dystopian – that afford theory to be transposed effectively into practice. Elsewhere in America will sit on my bookshelf along side Chantal Mouffe and Henry A. Giroux as an invaluable go-to source for artists and writers rethinking democracy in this age of political extremism."Juli Carson, Professor, Univesity of California, Irvine

David Trend is Chair of the Department of Art at the University of California, Irvine. He holds a PhD in Curriculum Theory and an MFA in Visual Studies. His books include 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.

• Belonging Where? Introduction Part I: Belonging There: People Like Us Makers and Takers: When More is Not Enough The Wealth of NationsOther People’s Money The Virtues of SelfishnessCultures of Unreason2. True Believers: Spiritual Life in a Secular Age Surprised by SinTrue Believers?Selective MemoriesA History of Religious Outsiders3. Ordinary People: The Normal and the Pathological Inventing NormalLaws of AveragesStandard DeviationsCommon Denominators4. Homeland Insecurities: Expecting the Worst A Dangerous World? Barbarians at the GatePrivacy Rights and WrongsSomething to HideOrganized Hate Part II: Belonging Somewhere: Blurred Boundaries 5. Reality is Broken: Neoliberalism and the Virtual Economy Neoliberalism RevisitedCitizenship, Inc.The Politics of CultureAesthetic ContradictionsVirtual Rebels6. Mistaken Identities: From Color Blindness to Gender Bending Welcome to "Post-Identity" AmericaThe Race for RacePictures at an ExhibitionBending Sex and GenderVarieties of Gazing7. No Body is Perfect: Disability in a Posthuman Age No Body is PerfectConstructions of AbleismThe Dismodern ConditionThe Posthuman Body8. On the Spectrum: America’s Mental Health Disorder Stigma and DiscriminationOn Invisibility and PassingThe Shame GameThe Affective TurnPolitical FeelingsPart III: Belonging Elsewhere: The Subject of Utopia 9. Gaming the System: Competition and its Discontents No ContestDoing God’s BusinessCapitalism and SchizophreniaThe Power of GivingGame Over10. To Affinity and Beyond: The Cyborg and the CosmopolitanA Cyborg ManifestoThird Person PluralQueering HeterosexualityCrip AnalogiesRealms of Mattering11. Medicating the Problem: The New American PharmakonThe Narcotic Tower of BabelModels of AddictionWriting on DrugsRecoveryBig Pharma12. The One and the Many: The Ethics of Uncertainty Be Here NowPossession and DispossessionThe One and the Many

"This is a terrific book--smart, provocative, engaging, and clearly written. It offers a memorable set of readings for students and scholars alike. Each chapter is a gem of organization, integration, and argument. Trend’s essays lead the reader through a maze of countervailing theories and positions leaving them with a much stronger sense of the complexity of our present time. Trend’s book is less about critique (though the critique is powerful) and more about a kind of hope that is restrained yet feasible." Richard A. Quantz, Professor, Miami University"Trend is a lucid writer able to unmask the internal contractions of the neoliberal order with theoretical and conceptual clarity, as he writes with urgency to make sense of a fractured America in a changing world economy."Rodolfo D. Torres, Professor, University of California, Irvine, and former Adam Smith Fellow, University of Glasgow "Elsewhere in America offers a prescient, non-dialectical approach to alterity, deftly revealing the hidden paradoxes inherent to so-called positions of "center" and "margin" within current media-driven polemics. Skirting binary logic, Trend offers a series of daring new formulations for hybrid positionalities – neither utopian nor dystopian – that afford theory to be transposed effectively into practice. Elsewhere in America will sit on my bookshelf along side Chantal Mouffe and Henry A. Giroux as an invaluable go-to source for artists and writers rethinking democracy in this age of political extremism."Juli Carson, Professor, Univesity of California, Irvine

David Trend is Chair of the Department of Art at the University of California, Irvine. He holds a PhD in Curriculum Theory and an MFA in Visual Studies. His books include 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.

• Belonging Where? Introduction Part I: Belonging There: People Like Us Makers and Takers: When More is Not Enough The Wealth of NationsOther People’s Money The Virtues of SelfishnessCultures of Unreason2. True Believers: Spiritual Life in a Secular Age Surprised by SinTrue Believers?Selective MemoriesA History of Religious Outsiders3. Ordinary People: The Normal and the Pathological Inventing NormalLaws of AveragesStandard DeviationsCommon Denominators4. Homeland Insecurities: Expecting the Worst A Dangerous World? Barbarians at the GatePrivacy Rights and WrongsSomething to HideOrganized Hate Part II: Belonging Somewhere: Blurred Boundaries 5. Reality is Broken: Neoliberalism and the Virtual Economy Neoliberalism RevisitedCitizenship, Inc.The Politics of CultureAesthetic ContradictionsVirtual Rebels6. Mistaken Identities: From Color Blindness to Gender Bending Welcome to "Post-Identity" AmericaThe Race for RacePictures at an ExhibitionBending Sex and GenderVarieties of Gazing7. No Body is Perfect: Disability in a Posthuman Age No Body is PerfectConstructions of AbleismThe Dismodern ConditionThe Posthuman Body8. On the Spectrum: America’s Mental Health Disorder Stigma and DiscriminationOn Invisibility and PassingThe Shame GameThe Affective TurnPolitical FeelingsPart III: Belonging Elsewhere: The Subject of Utopia 9. Gaming the System: Competition and its Discontents No ContestDoing God’s BusinessCapitalism and SchizophreniaThe Power of GivingGame Over10. To Affinity and Beyond: The Cyborg and the CosmopolitanA Cyborg ManifestoThird Person PluralQueering HeterosexualityCrip AnalogiesRealms of Mattering11. Medicating the Problem: The New American PharmakonThe Narcotic Tower of BabelModels of AddictionWriting on DrugsRecoveryBig Pharma12. The One and the Many: The Ethics of Uncertainty Be Here NowPossession and DispossessionThe One and the Many

"This is a terrific book--smart, provocative, engaging, and clearly written. It offers a memorable set of readings for students and scholars alike. Each chapter is a gem of organization, integration, and argument. Trend’s essays lead the reader through a maze of countervailing theories and positions leaving them with a much stronger sense of the complexity of our present time. Trend’s book is less about critique (though the critique is powerful) and more about a kind of hope that is restrained yet feasible." Richard A. Quantz, Professor, Miami University"Trend is a lucid writer able to unmask the internal contractions of the neoliberal order with theoretical and conceptual clarity, as he writes with urgency to make sense of a fractured America in a changing world economy."Rodolfo D. Torres, Professor, University of California, Irvine, and former Adam Smith Fellow, University of Glasgow "Elsewhere in America offers a prescient, non-dialectical approach to alterity, deftly revealing the hidden paradoxes inherent to so-called positions of "center" and "margin" within current media-driven polemics. Skirting binary logic, Trend offers a series of daring new formulations for hybrid positionalities – neither utopian nor dystopian – that afford theory to be transposed effectively into practice. Elsewhere in America will sit on my bookshelf along side Chantal Mouffe and Henry A. Giroux as an invaluable go-to source for artists and writers rethinking democracy in this age of political extremism."Juli Carson, Professor, Univesity of California, Irvine