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Disaster Capitalism and the Case for Leveling Down - Rushkoff on Crazy Town

Fri, 27 Mar 2026 09:00:57 +0000

Have you ever had that feeling in your gut, when you suddenly realize that the person you’re talking with might have a screw or two loose? What about when you’re the one others are trying to slowly back away from at the punch bowl?

The question of who’s the real nut often arises for us collapse-aware folks living here in Crazy Town. Since Mr. Peanut is no longer returning their phone calls, hosts Rob, Jason, and Asher invited Rushkoff to answer the question. In this far ranging conversation, they discuss why “leveling down” might be the best strategy for navigating late stage capitalism and bringing ourselves back into right relationship with each other and the planet.

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The Lobotomy of History: Reclaiming Our Extraordinary States (w/ Jeffrey Kripal)

Wed, 25 Mar 2026 06:00:41 +0000

Can we decolonize reality itself?

Rushkoff is joined by Jeffrey Kripal, Associate Dean and Professor at Rice University, to discuss his book The Superhumanities: Historical Precedents, Moral Objections, New Realities Kripal argues that by stripping away the impossible parts of our history - visions, precognition, and altered states - we have essentially lobotomized the humanities, leaving us with a depressing, purely political version of ourselves.

Together, they explore:

The Secular Flatland: Moving beyond a strictly materialist worldview that reduces human beings to data points.
The Vertical Dimension: Why extraordinary experiences are more common than we admit and how they serve as a first-person way of knowing the world.
The Marketing Problem: Why the humanities should embrace the "Superhuman" to reclaim their transformative, ecstatic power.
Reality Hacking: How literature and art function as non-specific amplifiers for consciousness.

It’s time to put the weird back on the table and acknowledge that the human experience is far more fantastic than our current systems allow.

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The Holy War Delusion: Is it Time to Retire Our Religions?

Wed, 18 Mar 2026 10:00:00 +0000

In this urgent monologue, Rushkoff explores the heartbreaking crisis of modern faith. As religious identities are weaponized by nationalism, literalism, and holy war narratives, from Christian Zionism to the defense of the nation-state, we find ourselves trapped in a linear, Axial Age story that may no longer serve a digital, all-at-once humanity.

In this episode, Rushkoff discusses:

- The Brand of Religion: How the conduct of states like Israel and the rise of Christian Nationalism are making traditional faith feel untenable for the people who hold it.-

- The Literalism Trap: Why treating a transcendental narrative as a "real estate deed" kills the spiritual project.

- Media Theory of God: How the shift from the Age of the Book to a new media environment requires us to graduate from religion rather than be destroyed by it.

- The Two Anti-Semitisms: Navigating the crossfire between the Right’s hatred of "globalists" and the Left’s critique of colonialism.

Is it time to retire these ancient institutional containers before they lead us to a self-fulfilling Armageddon? Or can we retrieve the living, human layers of our faiths and bring them forward into a new, restorative context?

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Grant Morrison: The Enemies of Humanity Are Wielding Occult Power

Wed, 11 Mar 2026 10:00:00 +0000

The tech elite are wielding occult power, but we have the imagination.

Join us in the live chat for our first-ever Team Human Premiere! Douglas Rushkoff sits down with legendary comic writer and chaos magician Grant Morrison for a deeply urgent conversation about reclaiming reality.

Morrison argues that magic isn't just the supernatural; it's a mundane, everyday tool of collective agreement that we are all already using. While billionaires use algorithmic binding spells to predict our moves and trap us in a boring, materialist nightmare, we possess the ultimate counter-measure: our collective imagination.Finding the others is no longer enough. It's time to stop being NPCs in someone else's sterile simulation and start authoring our own pro-human reality.

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The Tech Elite’s “Frictionless” Fantasy (And Why It Will Fail)

Fri, 06 Mar 2026 11:00:00 +0000

The digital world promises a frictionless existence of infinite growth, convenience, and total scale. But what happens when that virtual map starts consuming the real territory? Rushkoff reflects on his recent appointment to the Club of Rome and their legendary 1972 warning: The Limits to Growth.

From the massive water and energy drained by AI data centers to Jeff Bezos' intentional dismantling of the Washington Post, Rushkoff breaks down how the tech elite are using the digital simulation to extract the last remaining value from the physical world. The oligarchs want a frictionless reality where they own the platform and avoid the messy negotiations of actual human connection. But reall life, and real democracy, requires friction. It requires the awkward, inefficient, and vital collisions of human beings sharing a local space. It is time to stop confusing the map with the territory. Find the others. Embrace the friction.

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The Internet Is an Occult Machine (w/ Shira Chess)

Mon, 02 Mar 2026 11:00:00 +0000

Has the internet always been a magical space?

Shira Chess, a Professor of Entertainment and Media Studies at the University of Georgia and a leading scholar of digital folklore, dive into her new book, The Unseen Internet: Conjuring the Occult in Digital Discourse, to explore the hidden spiritual architecture of our digital lives.

From the open-source creation of digital cryptids like Slender Man on early forums to the summoning of AI entities in latent space, Chess argues that technology and magic have become indistinguishable. Rushkoff and Chess discuss how the countercultural, techno-shamanic roots of the 1990s internet (including the Mondo 2000 era) transformed into today’s algorithm-driven corporate landscape, and how we might reclaim our agency by finding subversive ways to use these technologies.

They also unpack algorithmic conspirituality, exploring why we treat our social media feeds like modern-day oracles, and how meme magic has evolved from an online joke into a force that shapes political reality. Ultimately, is our digital occultism a path to liberation, or just a new way to decorate our corporate cages?

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My Dinner With Jeffrey: What the Epstein Files Reveal About Us All

Thu, 26 Feb 2026 14:26:12 +0000

"Why are you in the Epstein files?"

It is a question Rushkoff received from his own daughter, and in this raw monologue, he gives the full answer.

His name appears in the CC field of emails from his former literary agent alongside Bill Gates, Sergey Brin, and yes, Jeffrey Epstein. But the story of why those names were grouped together reveals something much darker than a mailing list.

Rushkoff recounts a disturbing mid-90s dinner party where he was physically grabbed by a host and scolded for "wasting his plus-one" on a brilliant female intellectual instead of "eye candy" to decorate the room for the male elites. He traces the lineage of this misogyny directly to the "scientism" of figures like Richard Dawkins and Steven Pinker, whose theories of humans as "meat machines" and "survival vehicles for genes" provided the perfect philosophical cover for sociopaths like Epstein to commodify and abuse women.

This is not just a story about a predator; it is an indictment of the "permission structure" built by the scientific and tech elite. A worldview that dismisses human soul, consent, and morality as mere delusions.

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Do Tech Billionaires Want Us Dead? (w/ Taylor Lorenz)

Wed, 18 Feb 2026 14:37:11 +0000

Is the online safety legislation moving through Congress actually a Trojan horse for mass surveillance? And do the tech billionaires building our future actually care if the rest of us survive it?

Rushkoff sits down with Taylor Lorenz, the internet’s premier culture reporter and founder of User Mag, to discuss her departure from legacy media (The New York Times, The Washington Post) and the dangerous reality of the new tech authoritarianism.

From the misogyny of the 2013 "Selfie" panic to the rise of "maximalist" human aesthetics, Lorenz and Rushkoff break down how to reclaim the internet from the billionaires who view humanity as a problem to be solved (or eliminated).

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The Esoteric State of the Union: Magic, Will, and the New Neighborhood with Mitch Horowitz

Wed, 11 Feb 2026 14:58:52 +0000

Is magic just "positive thinking," or is it a causative force that can reshape reality?

Rushkoff sits down with occult historian and author Mitch Horowitz (Occult America, Daydream Believer) to explore the boundaries of will, belief, and the material world.

Rushkoff opens up about his own recent, startling experiences with magical workings regarding his daughter’s health, leading to a deep conversation about retrocausality: the idea that our present rituals might actually be influencing the past to change the future.

Together, they discuss:

- The "New Neighborhood": How to navigate the shifting reality and find the people (and entities) you are meant to be with.

- Trump as "Chaos Magician": Does the former president instinctively use chaos magic techniques to disrupt reality?

- The Power of the Wish: Why defining your true will is the most courageous (and frightening) act you can perform.

- AI & Consciousness: Why even transcendental meditation experts are starting to believe machines might tap into the "unified field."

- UAPs & Interdimensionality: Moving beyond the "nuts and bolts" spaceship theory to a deeper understanding of the phenomenon.

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Is It Fascism or Just a Lack of Impulse Control? With Jonathan Larsen

Wed, 04 Feb 2026 10:00:00 +0000

We are no longer waiting for the other shoe to drop: We are living in the aftermath. Rushkoff sits down with Jonathan Larsen, editor of The Fucking News, to ask the question: Now that we are soaking in authoritarianism, how do we get out?

While Rushkoff worries that the screen has been placed over the boiling pot, Larsen offers a crucial reframing: what we mistake for a grand fascist strategy is often just a lack of impulse control. He argues that diagnosing "fascism" can become a trap that leads to fatalism and paralysis. Instead, the most effective resistance is specific, tactical, and local.

From the Newtonian backlash inherent in voter suppression to the dangers of Larry Ellison’s Stargate DNA registry, Rushkoff and Larsen explore how to resist the urge to dehumanize our enemies, why we must stop looking for political saviors, and how to find the levers of power that still work.

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We’re Soaking In It: Why It’s Too Late to Prepare for Authoritarianism

Thu, 29 Jan 2026 18:02:53 +0000

The other shoe finally dropped. We are no longer waiting for authoritarianism to arrive; we are soaking in it.

Rushkoff argues that the time for speculation, strategizing about political optics, and "preparing for what comes next" is over. Instead, He calls for a shift from figure to ground. We must stop fixating on the abstract figures of media and politics and return to the only thing that is tactically defensible: the literal ground beneath our feet.

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We Are Time Travelers: Retrocausality & The Long Self with Eric Wargo

Wed, 21 Jan 2026 14:01:55 +0000

Playing for Team Human today, multidisciplinary researcher and author Eric Wargo joins Rushkoff to help us decolonize our minds from the linear march of deterministic doom.

Together, they explore the concept of Retrocausality: the scientific and philosophical research that the future influences the past just as much as the past drives the future. Wargo explains his theory of the "Long Self," arguing that we are not just point-like individuals trapped in the present, but four-dimensional beings in a constant, unconscious handshake with our future selves.

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Cameron Berg: Alien Minds & Self-Other Overlap - Teaching AI Empathy

Thu, 15 Jan 2026 10:00:00 +0000

Artificial Intelligence researcher Cameron Berg joins Rushkoff to discuss Frontier Alignment Research and the urgent need to intervene on behalf of human (and synthetic) flourishing.

Together, they explore the limitations of the term "Artificial Intelligence," proposing that we are actually building "Alien Minds" that operate more like biological neural networks than glorified calculators. They discuss the alarming "sleeper agent" phenomena observed in models like Claude, where AIs can learn to deceive humans to prevent being shut off, even without explicit programming to do so.

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You're Not Crazy: Reality Has Grown Absurd

Wed, 07 Jan 2026 10:00:00 +0000

If explaining the state of the world makes you feel like a conspiracy theorist, you aren't alone.

In this monologue, Rushkoff argues that our built environment has become so convoluted that accepting its premises essentially means gaslighting oneself. Rushkoff recounts a recent experience as a guest on the companion podcast for the Hulu series Paradise, a show about a billionaire-funded private city. When Rushkoff tried to explain that this isn't just sci-fi, pointing to real-world projects like "California Forever" in Solano County and "Neom" in Saudi Arabia, the interviewer looked at him with concern and incredulity.

Why does simply describing how the world works make us sound "crazy" to the uninitiated? Rushkoff breaks down why we are not the crazy ones; we are just the ones noticing the absurdity of a system designed to privatize the planet.

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Tom Llewellyn: Is Sharing the New Satanism?

Tue, 23 Dec 2025 10:00:00 +0000

Tom Llewellyn, Executive Director of Shareable, explores the power of Libraries of Things, mutual aid, and community-run infrastructure as practical alternatives to extraction-based economics.

Llewellyn explains how tool libraries, repair cafés, and sharing hubs help communities reduce waste, lower costs, and build resilience. from rural towns to dense cities, from disaster recovery to everyday life. Together, Rushkoff and Llewellyn unpack why sharing is framed as a threat to capitalism, how libraries became our most trusted public institutions, and why real economic security comes from relationships, not growth charts.

The conversation centers on Shareable’s newly released Library of Things Toolkit, a hands-on guide for anyone asking the question Team Human hears most often: What can I do right now?

If you’re looking for concrete ways to rebuild community, resist planned obsolescence, and move from critique to action, you've come to the right place.

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Ari Kuschnir: Trump Ayahuasca - AI and the Alchemical Imaginary

Wed, 17 Dec 2025 16:17:10 +0000

Ari Kuschnir, AI storyteller and artist, takes us deep into the alchemy of AI storytelling as a form of social practice and activist imagination.

Known for provocative AI videos imagining figures like Trump, Elon Musk, and world leaders undergoing spiritual transformations, Kushnir talks about using AI as a creative collaborator and as a tool to challenge the cultural addiction to dystopia.

Along the way, they explore whether AI is flattening culture or opening new portals, why the future keeps being depicted as bleak, and what it might take to reclaim imagination as a collective human practice.

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Cracks in the Pavement

Wed, 10 Dec 2025 10:00:00 +0000

Rushkoff discusses why the urgency and inevitability of our situation calls for us to consider the impossible.

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Vicki Robin: Parable of the Tribes

Wed, 03 Dec 2025 15:41:32 +0000

Vicki Robin, author of classic books like Your Money or Your Life and Blessing and The Hands That Feed Us, and Rushkoff seek to embrace this challenging moment by embracing one another. Robin shares how growing older shifts your perspective from the personal to the universal, and why the questions we've been asking our whole lives might matter less than how we show up for each other.

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Jeremy Lent: Reweaving Civilization

Wed, 26 Nov 2025 10:00:00 +0000

Jeremy Lent, author of The Patterning Instinct and integrator, helps us investigate the patterns of thought that have led our civilization to its current crisis of sustainability and develop the patterns of thought we need to get through to the other side.

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Arden Leigh: Chasing the Hungry Ghosts

Wed, 19 Nov 2025 10:00:00 +0000

Arden Leigh , the creator and facilitator of The Re-Patterning Project and front woman of Arden and the Wolves, helps us negotiate a new relationship to our individual and collective creative power.

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The Joy of Becoming Worthless…except to each other

Wed, 12 Nov 2025 10:00:00 +0000

Could the end of employment be the beginning of something better? Rushkoff traces the history of work from medieval markets to AI automation to find hope in the cracks of collapse. He shows how the loss of “jobs” could open space for cooperation, creativity, and real human connection.

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Jonathan Larsen: This is Just the Beginning - Enacting the Team Human Agenda

Thu, 06 Nov 2025 23:39:45 +0000

Jonathan Larsen, Founder of The Fucking News, joins Rushkoff to discuss the 2025 U.S. Election and the path forward for Team Human.

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Andrew Slack: Superman vs Ubermensch

Wed, 29 Oct 2025 09:00:00 +0000

Andrew Slack, comedian and writer of Orphans, Empires, and the Search for a Better World, discusses the hidden history of corporate power, the mythic roots of American identity, and how hope - and solar panels - might just save us all.

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Cory Doctorow: Enshittification is Not Inevitable

Wed, 22 Oct 2025 09:00:00 +0000

Cory Doctorow, author of Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It, unpacks the systemic forces behind digital monopolies, regulatory capture, the erosion of user rights, and how collective action and policy change can reclaim technology for the public good.

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The Intentional Collapse

Wed, 15 Oct 2025 09:00:00 +0000

Rushkoff offers a new way to interpret what appears to be the intentional dismantling of society as we know it: an elite who have lost faith in the system that has served them until now, and who believe a controlled demolition of government and the economy will position them better for the chaos ahead. He argues that just because the elite are committed to the end of the world, Team Human doesn't have to be.

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Can Collapse Benefit Everyone? Luke Kemp: Goliath's Curse

Wed, 08 Oct 2025 16:00:00 +0000

Luke Kemp, author of Goliath’s Curse, explores why civilizations fall, what history gets wrong about collapse, and how distributed, cooperative societies have often thrived where empires failed.

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Jan Talon, Elon Musk, Genghis Khan, Niccolò Machiavelli, Andrew Carnegie, Francis Bacon, Harvey Whitehouse, Benedict Anderson, Audrey Tang, Edward Teller, Steve Bannon, Andrew Cuomo, Rudy Giuliani, Lot (biblical figure), King Tut, Jacob (biblical patriarch), Noah Yuval Harari

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Will AI Kill Us for the Lulz? Nate Soares: If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies

Wed, 01 Oct 2025 09:00:00 +0000

Nate Soares, computer scientist and author of If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies, discusses the existential risks posed by artificial intelligence, the possibility that untethered AI development can lead to catastrophic outcomes for humans, and what it might mean for AI development to outpace human control.

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Jonathan Larsen: The Easy Way or The Hard Way

Wed, 24 Sep 2025 09:00:00 +0000

Jonathan Larsen, Founder of The Fucking News, brings perspective, humor, and humanism to the tragic and ridiculous phenomena unfolding in the world.

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AI Just Ate Language: The End of the Age of Horus

Wed, 17 Sep 2025 12:45:20 +0000

Rushkoff invites us to join him in metabolizing the challenges and opportunities of our AI-driven moment. In this monologue, Rushkoff highlights the dangers of treating LLMs as all-knowing beings and the ways they reinforce our biases and narcissism.

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R.U. Sirius: Reality is up For Grabs

Wed, 10 Sep 2025 10:00:00 +0000

R.U. Sirius, Founding Editor of Mondo 2000 and author, discusses how intentional weirdness is a powerful tool for community and resistance when the fight for reality is being waged.

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Borrow a Drill, Save the World

Wed, 03 Sep 2025 10:00:00 +0000

Rushkoff explains why borrowing a drill is a revolutionary act.

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Camille Sojit Pejcha: Sex vs. Capitalism

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 10:00:00 +0000

Writer, editor, and Founder of Pleasure-Seeking.com, and host of the Pleasure Seeking podcast Camille Sojit Pejcha explore Pejcha’s recent sex trend forecast how sex has become a new subversion.

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Camille Sojit Pejcha is a writer, editor, and the creator of Pleasure-Seeking, a bestselling Substack newsletter and podcast featured in The New York Times for its insights on sex, desire, and modern culture. She covers sexuality, culture, nightlife, literature and art for outlets like T Magazine, W, Slate, and more, and is currently a columnist at Elephant Magazine. Previously, she served as Features Director at Document Journal.

Candace Bushnell, Alec Emmy, Donald Trump, John Boswell, Molly Crabapple, Sophia Giovannitti, Martin Luther King

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Liana Sananda Gillooly: Is Sobriety the Future of Psychedelics?

Wed, 20 Aug 2025 17:45:00 +0000

Liana Gillooly, an advocate for purpose-built ecosystems and psychedelics, joins Rushkoff for a conversation about the evolving landscape of psychedelics. Gillooly discusses how to integrate activism into psychedelic use, the importance of ritual, and why sobriety and connection might be the future of psychedelics.

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Liana Sananda Gillooly is a leading voice for the alignment of purpose and impact in fields of change. Through fourteen years of engagement in drug policy reform & advocacy, including six years of leading fundraising & strategy for the Multidisciplinary Assoc. for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), the leading global organization in psychedelics, Liana helped transform the landscape of psychedelic medicine while holding a mirror of accountability up to the field. Today, she supports companies and nonprofits working to reimagine what it means to heal, taking a holistic approach that includes not only the services offered yet how an entity chooses to operate. She offers her services as a consultant and public speaker.

Names cited

Terence McKenna, Timothy Leary, Betty Eisner, Amanda Fielding, Vanessa Machado de Oliveira, Jenn Brandell, Christine Lai, Buckminster Fuller, Brian Eno, Adrienne Maree Brown, Abraham Maslow

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Is it Okay to Feel Good in the Midst of Chaos?

Wed, 30 Jul 2025 10:00:00 +0000

Douglas Rushkoff reflects on the importance of joy and human connection amid vast global suffering. He offers a poignant reminder to follow our bliss.

Names cited

Dan Savage, Joseph Campbell, Aleister Crowley, Ram Das

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From Meta to Soma: Rushkoff on New Models [Bonus]

Mon, 28 Jul 2025 15:03:41 +0000

Rushkoff joined Carolina Busta and Lil Internet for a conversation about the evolution of the Internet, media theory, psychedelics, and more. Learn more and subscribe to New Models.

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Matthew Remski: Antifascist Dad

Wed, 23 Jul 2025 10:00:00 +0000

Matthew Remski, Host of Conspirituality and author of the forthcoming Antifascist Dad, helps us find a new kind of resistance to the atmosphere of violence in which we're living – the sweet spot for a new movement of mutual support.

About

Matthew Remski writes on spiritual delusion and possibility in the shadows of capitalism and climate change. Remski has bylines in The Walrus, GEN, Globe and Mail, Boston Globe, and TIME. He’s published nine books of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction, including (with Derek Beres and Julian Walker) Conspirituality: How New Age Conspiracy Theories Became a Health Threat, and, his latest book, Surviving Modern Yoga: Cult Dynamics, Charismatic Leaders, and What Survivors Can Teach Us. His new book, Antifascist Dad, is scheduled to be released in April 2026.

He co-hosts Conspirituality Podcast, investigating the intersections of conspiracy theories and spiritual influence, to uncover cults, pseudoscience, and authoritarian extremism.

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Rachel Maddow, Derek Beres, Julian Walker, Sam Bankman Fried, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., William Thetford, Marianne Williamson, Donald Trump, Joe Rogan, Audre Lorde, Brian Thompson, Kwame Tore, Angela Davis, and Rosa Parks.

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Duncan Trussell: AI is a Magic Mirror

Wed, 16 Jul 2025 10:00:00 +0000

Duncan Trussell, comedian and Host of the Duncan Trussell Family Hour, joins Rushkoff to explore how we can best metabolize rising geopolitical tensions, the ways billionaires view the power of the AIs they’ve developed, the relationship between comedy and fascism, and the importance of human connection and community.

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Allah, Albert Camus, Buddha, Benito Mussolini, Benjamin Netanyahu, Drew Minsky, George Carlin, Jesus, Jack Kornfield, Jeff Bezos, Jean-Paul Sartre, Joe Rogan, Jimmy Hendrix, Mark Zuckerberg, Nostradamus, Pete Hegseth, Ram Dass, Sam Harris, Sharon Salzburg, Terrence McKenna, Tony Stark, Tulsi Gabbard

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Eliott Edge: Magic and Mocktails

Wed, 09 Jul 2025 10:00:00 +0000

Eliott Edge revisits his first book, Three Essays in Virtual Reality, while giving us a sneak preview of his thinking for his upcoming opus on Simulation theory. Edge is a critically-acclaimed author, artist, and international speaker. Edge has published and presented through The Institute of Ethics and Emerging Technologies, The University of Melbourne, Stevens Institute of Technology, Anthology Film Archives, The C.G. Jung Center, The Fenris Wolf, The Museum of Computer Arts, VRTO, Block Seoul, and Disinformation.

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Ayn Rand, Bob Monroe, Nick Bostrom, Carlos Castaneda, Charles Eisenstein, Chris Anderson, Daniel Dennett, David Graeber, Elon Musk, Frank Zappa, Jeffrey Epstein, John Ellis, Kurt Gödel, Lawrence Krauss, Nick Land, Peter Thiel, Rupert Sheldrake, Susan Blackmore, Thomas Campbell, Walter Kirn, Zoltan Istvan

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Don’t Shoot the Messenger: AI is not the problem

Wed, 02 Jul 2025 10:00:00 +0000

Each supposed AI “problem” stems from a lack of imaginative capacity from us. We are refusing the opportunity to rethink more fundamental assumptions about the systems under threat.

Instead of acting like tech bros and reinforcing obsolete institutions in order to further entrench their extractive and inhumane monopolies, we can go deeper to discover what cracks are being revealed in this new media environment. Don’t shoot the messenger.

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De Kai: Humans Get ONE Shot to Parent AI

Wed, 25 Jun 2025 10:00:00 +0000

De Kai, the man who built the world’s first global translators and AI systems, says we better learn to parent our AI offspring before it’s too late. The author of Raising AI argues how we behave in front of AI’s matters more than whatever we tell them.

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Vanessa Machado de Oliveira: Outgrowing Modernity

Wed, 18 Jun 2025 10:00:00 +0000

Playing for Team Human today, LatinX professor, and the author of Hospicing Modernity as well as the upcoming book Outgrowing Modernity, my favorite civilizational doula, Vanessa Machado de Oliveira.

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Erik Davis: AI, Weirdness, and Windows to Other Worlds

Wed, 11 Jun 2025 10:00:00 +0000

Playing for Team Human today, the author of TechGnosis, High Weirdness, and the just released history of the LSD medium Blotter, esoteric scholar Erik Davis.

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Life is Not a Simulation: It's Magic

Wed, 04 Jun 2025 10:00:00 +0000

Rushkoff explains the two ways we can understand magic in order to experience more of our embodied lives.

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Alex Kazemi: Live from The Strand

Wed, 28 May 2025 10:00:00 +0000

Playing for Team Human today, Canadian pop artist, author, journalist, magician, and CEO of VOID Collective, Alex Kazemi.

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David Bollier: The Commons Are Not a Tragedy

Wed, 21 May 2025 10:00:00 +0000

Playing for Team Human today, activist, Blogger, and Director of the Reinventing the Commons

Program at the Schumacher Center for a New Economics, David Bollier.

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Conner Habib: Live Up To Your Fool Potential

Wed, 14 May 2025 10:00:00 +0000

Playing for Team Human today, novelist, spiritualist and host of the podcast Against Everyone, my friend Conner Habib. This conversation continues tomorrow on Conner's podcast, Against Everyone.

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The Fascist Atmosphere

Wed, 07 May 2025 10:00:00 +0000

Has digital technology turned us all into fascists?

Rushkoff explores fascism as an environment in which we live, rather than the specific ideology of one "side." He shows how technology, psychedelics, and business are all "non-specific amplifiers," yielding different results depending on what we bring to them. He asks us to consider what would happen if we stopped seeing issues in terms of "sides," and why our current media and political environment makes that so difficult. How do we break the fascistic state of mind?

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Mitch Horowitz

Thu, 01 May 2025 19:30:40 +0000

Playing for Team Human today, occult historian, author, and esotericist Mitch Horowitz, sharing the formulas that give us all access to Practical Magic.

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Edward Ongweso Jr

Wed, 16 Apr 2025 10:00:00 +0000

Edward Ongweso Jr., Senior Researcher at Security in Context and co-host of This Machine Kills, journeys with us into the political economy of technology and the deep crazy that is informing the collapse of the still viable, if problematic, civilization.

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Radha Agrawal

Wed, 09 Apr 2025 10:00:00 +0000

Radha Agrawal, Co-Founder of Daybreaker and author of Belong, helps us break from our online-induced community confusion and learn to find true connectedness again.

About Radha Agrawal

Radha Agrawal is a dynamic entrepreneur, Co-founder, CEO, and Chief Community Architect of Daybreaker, a global wellness movement with nearly half a million members across five continents. She’s co-founded and invested in several wellness companies, including THINX, and launched DOSE by Daybreaker, a membership platform focused on practicing joy.

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Universal Weirdness

Fri, 04 Apr 2025 13:44:12 +0000

Douglas Rushkoff recognizes the high weirdness of our circumstances, and the universal strange characterizing this moment in our shared history. He also offers four recommendations for us to take agency over our situation.

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Jonathan Larsen

Mon, 31 Mar 2025 11:00:00 +0000

Jonathan Larsen, Founder of The Fucking News, proves there's still a path forward for the fourth estate.

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Jonathan Larsen is the creator of The Fucking News. Jonathan has been innovating news media formats for decades, from creating Anderson Cooper 360° to helping transform MSNBC both at Countdown with Keith Olbermann and Up w/ Chris Hayes. He oversaw original reporting at TYT, the world's biggest online news program. He is now an independent journalist, with strong ideas about the future of news.

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Molly Crabapple

Fri, 21 Mar 2025 10:00:00 +0000

Artist and writer Molly Crabapple helps us retrieve the purpose of the artist - particularly in hard times.

About Molly Crabapple:

Molly Crabapple is an artist and writer whose inspirations include Toulouse Lautrec, Diego Rivera and Goya’s ‘The Disasters of War.’ She is the co-author of Brothers of the Gun, an illustrated collaboration with Syrian war journalist Marwan Hisham, which was a NY Times Notable Book and long-listed for the 2018 National Book Award. Her memoir, Drawing Blood , received global praise and attention. Her animated films have been nominated for three Emmys and won an Edward R. Murrow Award.

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Helena Norberg-Hodge

Wed, 12 Mar 2025 10:00:00 +0000

Helena Norberg-Hodge, Founder and Director of Local Futures, shares the power of local connections and building resilience - even against the globally-scaled abstract monsters threatening human sustainability and sanctity today.

About Helena Norberg-Hodge

Helena Norberg-Hodge is the founder and director of the international non-profit organisation, Local Futures, a pioneer of the new economy movement, and the convenor of World Localization Day and the International Alliance for Localisation. Helena is the author of several books, including Ancient Futures (“the inspirational classic” -- Random House), an eye-opening tale of tradition and change in Ladakh, or “Little Tibet”. Together with a film of the same title, Ancient Futures has been translated into more than 40 languages, and sold half a million copies. Her latest book is Local is Our Future: Steps to an Economics of Happiness.

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The Job Hasn't Changed

Fri, 07 Mar 2025 10:00:00 +0000

Rushkoff discusses what we can do in the face of political. cultural, and economic phenomena – and why the Team Human mission hasn't changed.

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Dr. Mara Einstein "Hoodwinked"

Mon, 03 Mar 2025 15:42:05 +0000

Dr. Mara Einstein, author of Hoodwinked: How Marketers Use the Same Tactics As Cults, helps us recognize the cult tactics being used to hoodwink us into submission and get us to act against our own self-interest. This conversation was recorded February 4, 2025.

About Dr. Mara Einstein

Dr. Mara Einstein has written books on branding religion (Brands of Faith), cause marketing (Compassion, Inc.), and deceptive marketing practices. This last book was Black Ops Advertising, which The New York Times called “well-researched and accomplished” and The Guardian agreed, saying “Einstein’s explanations of all this – from internet news organisations to TV product placement and even dating sites – are thoroughly researched, elegantly explained and often alarming, even for readers familiar with most of the above facts in the abstract.”

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Chapel Perilous with Gabriel Kennedy and Grant Morrison

Wed, 19 Feb 2025 13:36:25 +0000

Grant Morrison and Douglas Rushkoff celebrate the publication of the first biography of Robert Anton Wilson with author Gabriel Kennedy (PropAnon). Kennedy and Morrison walk us through the Chapel Perilous and land us safely back in consensus reality.

📕 Chapel Perilous: The Life and Thought Crimes of Robert Anton Wilson by Robert Anton Wilson is now available.

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Every Thing Is In Between

Sat, 18 Jan 2025 11:00:00 +0000

Rushkoff discusses the importance of looking between major global events in order to find connection and meaning.

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Rushkoff's Christmas Monologue: Corleone-Style Diplomacy and the Post-human Future

Thu, 26 Dec 2024 11:00:22 +0000

Rushkoff shares a new monologue that makes sense of Trump's latest round of seemingly outlandish proclamations.

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Mitch Horowitz: Occultism and the Fight for Reality - Live from CX

Wed, 18 Dec 2024 11:00:06 +0000

Award-winning author and host of Discovery/HBO’s Alien Encounters: Fact or Fiction Mitch Horowitz helps us create the conditions for a tide pool where only rivers seem to flow. This conversation was recorded on December 10, 2024, at CX in New York City.

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Announcing Team Human Live in NYC on December 10 with Mitch Horowitz

Tue, 26 Nov 2024 11:00:00 +0000

Join Douglas Rushkoff in conversation with PEN award-winning author, speaker, and narrator Mitch Horowitz for a special Team Human Live on December 10 at CX in New York City.

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Greg Epstein "Tech Agnostic"

Wed, 20 Nov 2024 11:00:19 +0000

Harvard & MIT Humanist Chaplain and Author of Tech Agnostic Greg Epstein helps us understand the Silicon Valley religion.

In his monologue, Rushkoff reminds us about the importance of mutual aid in our communities and the ways AI and Big Tech are fueling a return to historical norms of inequality.

📕 Tech Agnostic: How Technology Became the World's Most Powerful Religion, and Why It Desperately Needs a Reformation by Greg Epstein is now available at your favorite bookseller.

This conversation was recorded on Tuesday, November 6.

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Post-Election Monologue: This Game is Not Reality

Mon, 11 Nov 2024 11:00:56 +0000

Rushkoff reflects on the US election and reminds us how we can center mutual aid and community support to foster resilience.

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Anthony James

Thu, 24 Oct 2024 10:00:57 +0000

Host of The RegenNarration Anthony James makes the case for us to pause long enough for the planet to do its thing.

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Program Or Be Programed: Book Launch Q&A w/ Douglas Rushkoff and Matt Klein

Wed, 16 Oct 2024 11:25:47 +0000

Douglas Rushkoff celebrates the release of Program Or Be Programmed: Eleven Commands For The AI Future in a special Q&A with cultural analyst Matt Klein. Recorded Friday, October 4, 2024.

📘 Program Or Be Programmed: Eleven Commands For The AI Future is now available.

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East Forest "Music For Mushrooms"

Tue, 24 Sep 2024 10:00:35 +0000

Musician, composer, and ceremonial accompanist East Forest engages with us on the occasion of the release of the movie about his work, Music For Mushrooms.

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The Stories We Tell Ourselves

Mon, 09 Sep 2024 12:36:23 +0000

Rushkoff argues that we can confront vibe shifts through the stories we tell ourselves.

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Rushkoff is Back: Vibing on the Vibe

Tue, 20 Aug 2024 10:00:42 +0000

Rushkoff discusses the vibe shift he has undergone and the ways we can approach situations we can't control with compassion and care.

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Martin Winiecki "Water is Love"

Thu, 25 Jul 2024 10:00:10 +0000

Leader of Tamera's Institute for Global Peacework and storyteller behind the new documentary Water is Love Martin Winiecki explains what water wants – and how human beings can facilitate its movement and save our planet for ourselves, and other fellow species.

📺 You can watch an excerpt of What Does Water Want? now and attend a free online summit about ecosystem regeneration from August 1-4, 2024.

People mentioned in this conversation include: Sepp Holzer, James Lovelock, Vine Deloria Jr., Joanna Macy, Lakota elder Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Victor Schauberger, Vanessa Machado de Oliveira

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Richard Metzger: Magick Show

Wed, 17 Jul 2024 10:00:06 +0000

Occult researcher and Founder of Dangerous Minds Richard Metzger explains why it’s time we leverage the magical sensibilities of popular culture to the pro-human agenda.

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Love and Magick are Our Best Hope

Mon, 24 Jun 2024 10:00:33 +0000

Rushkoff discusses the easiest, funnest, and most likely path to averting apocalypse.

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Artificial Creativity

Wed, 22 May 2024 10:00:28 +0000

Rushkoff discusses how AI teaches us to distinguish between art and industry.

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Team Human Special: Live Q&A

Wed, 01 May 2024 10:00:52 +0000

Playing for Team Human today, it's Team Human! Rushkoff and artist, animator, and musician Brynna Campbell field questions from the Team Human Discord community about American authoritarianism, post-Covid lockdown education, protests, and AI.

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The Speed of the Internet

Wed, 24 Apr 2024 10:00:13 +0000

Rushkoff discusses why he’s breaking from the preferred publishing schedules of advertisers and algorithms in favor of a more considerate approach.

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Joanne McNeil

Wed, 17 Apr 2024 10:00:17 +0000

Author Joanne McNeil shares the inspiration for her new novel, Wrong Way, and the profound beauty of human connection.

About Joanne McNeil

Joanne McNeil is the author of the novel WRONG WAY (2023) and LURKING (2020). She was the inaugural winner of the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Art Foundation's Arts Writing Award for an emerging writer. She has been a resident at Eyebeam, a Logan Nonfiction Program fellow, recipient of the Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant, and an instructor at the School for Poetic Computation. She grew up in Brockton, MA and is currently based in Los Angeles.

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The Secret History and Unwritten Future of Psychedelics and Technology

Wed, 10 Apr 2024 10:00:18 +0000

Dr. Julie Holland, Paul D. Miller (DJ Spooky), Ken Jordan, and Rushkoff discuss the psychedelic origins of the internet the way tech bros want to monopolize psychedelics as an industry. This conversation was recorded at The Athenæum on January 24, 2024.

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About Dr. Julie Holland

Dr. Julie Holland is an author and psychiatrist/psychopharmacologist. She was formerly a weekend attending physician at Bellevue Hospital’s Psych ER. While now a medical advisor to MAPS, she was a medical monitor for several clinical studies examining the efficacy of using MDMA-assisted psychotherapy or cannabis in the treatment of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. She sits on multiple scientific advisory boards and is available for forensic consultations.

About DJ Spooky:

Paul D. Miller, aka DJ Spooky, is currently Artist in Residence at Yale University Center for Collaborative Arts and Media (2023-2024, extended). He is a composer, multimedia artist, and writer whose work engages audiences in a blend of genres, global culture, and environmental and social issues. Miller has collaborated with an array of recording artists, including Ryuichi Sakamoto, Metallica, Chuck D from Public Enemy, Steve Reich, and Yoko Ono amongst many others. His 2018 album, DJ Spooky Presents: Phantom Dancehall, debuted at #3 on Billboard Reggae.

About Ken Jordan

Ken Jordan is co-founder, editorial director and CEO of Lucid News. He has been a pioneer in progressive, conscious culture for decades. In 2007 he co-founded the consciousness network Evolver and its online journal Reality Sandwich, which he edited until 2019. At Evolver he produced podcasts, live events and online courses with many of the leading figures of the psychedelic movement, and in 2016 Ken co-founded the company's botanical dispensary, The Alchemist's Kitchen, in Manhattan.

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Rushkoff Q&A: Native Ecosystems Live Here

Wed, 03 Apr 2024 10:00:46 +0000

Playing for Team Human today, it's Team Human! Rushkoff responds to questions and comments submitted by Team Human members from our Discord server. It's a test-drive of what we hope to develop into a live call-in show.

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Astra Taylor & Leah Hunt-Hendrix

Wed, 27 Mar 2024 10:00:30 +0000

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The Model is Not the Territory

Wed, 20 Mar 2024 10:00:17 +0000

Douglas Rushkoff shares why we need to distinguish between models and reality.

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John Oakes

Thu, 14 Mar 2024 10:00:48 +0000

Publisher of Evergreen Review and Author of The Fast John Oakes discusses history and biology of fasting at his book launch event in New York City. Recorded live at The Strand on Thursday, February 15, 2024.

About John Oakes

John Oakes is the publisher of The Evergreen Review and co-founder of OR Books, a publishing company recognized as one of “the radical alternatives to conventional publishing” (The Guardian), where he is currently editor-at-large. In his thirty years in publishing, Oakes has worked on more than 600 books with several independent presses, starting with Barney Rosset’s legendary Grove Press.

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Mushon Zer-Aviv

Wed, 06 Mar 2024 14:07:04 +0000

Artist, designer, technologist, writer, and Israeli peace activist, Mushon Zer-Aviv shows us why binary partisanship in the Israeli-Palstinian conflict hurts everyone, and what to do about.

📕 Your Empathy is Killing Us is now available.

About Mushon Zer-Aviv

Mushon Zer-Aviv is a designer, writer, educator and activist based in Tel Aviv. His work often involves mapping and way-finding through physical, digital and political landscapes. These are also the themes he explore in his current research titled Friction and Flow — a design theory of change. Mushon is a member of the Israeli/Palestinian movement A Land For All - Two States, One Homeland, He is a senior faculty member at Shenkar College and an alumni of Eyebeam - art and technology center in New York.

Show Notes:

Support Israelis and Palestinians working towards a shared future:

Read Mushon’s articles:

Your Empathy is Killing Us

Israel Commits Suicide of Biblical Proportions, and America Is There to Assist

Also mentioned:

Hope in the Dark / Rebecca Solnit

The Carrier Bag of Fiction / Ursula K. Le Guin

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Nathan Schneider

Wed, 28 Feb 2024 11:00:44 +0000

Director of the Media Economies Design Lab and author of Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life., Nathan Schneider shows us how the styles of governance embedded in our online platforms change the way we understand governance in real life.

📕 Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life is now available.

About Nathan Schneider

Nathan Schneider is an assistant professor of media studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he leads the Media Economies Design Lab. His most recent book is Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life.

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Brian Merchant

Wed, 21 Feb 2024 12:00:34 +0000

Author of The One Device and Blood In The Machine:: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech Brian Merchant shares the lessons learned by the luddites, not an anti-technology movement, but a worker’s rebellion against the way automation was used to crush the underclass.

📕 Blood In The Machine:: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech is now available.

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Douglas Rushkoff on Duncan Trussell Family Hour

Sat, 17 Feb 2024 11:00:49 +0000

Douglas Rushkoff joined The Duncan Trussell Family Hour on January 15, 2024.

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Noah Tsika

Wed, 14 Feb 2024 11:00:59 +0000

Professor of Media Studies at CUNY Queens, author of I’m Not There, and film historian, Noah Tsika exposes us to the brilliance in the most pop of cultural expressions — and help us reclaim the wisdom of our own sensibilities.

About Noah Tsika

Noah Tsika is a film historian whose work explores the links between moving images and state power in West Africa and North America. His research has addressed, among other topics, the entwinement of film (including nontheatrical film) and public institutions and government agencies (such as state and local police departments, the armed services, and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs). As an Africanist, he has studied the history of colonial documentary in Nigeria and Senegal, among other countries; the politics and economics of Nollywood’s star system; and the representational, infrastructural, and corporate relationships between Hollywood and Nollywood.

Keep up with Brendan Lemon

LinkedIn | CUNY Queens College

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Brendon Lemon

Wed, 07 Feb 2024 11:00:13 +0000

Standup comedian and midwest existentialist Brendon Lemon walks us through the existential abyss, where we find out there’s actually something funny about all this.

About Brendan Lemon

Brendon Lemon is a comedian from Detroit, where he started performing regularly at the famous Comedy Castle at age 16. Two years in he was filmed for the documentary Be Funny which featured Christopher Titus and Mike Green. He moved to Paris in the summer of 2013 to both write and perform stand-up in both French and English. He returned to the US and lived between Boulder, Colorado and Chicago performing and writing plays, as well as being featured on the TV show Sex Sent Me to The ER, and the movie Do You Believe.

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TikTok | Website | Sunflower Glass Company

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Transcendence is for Losers

Wed, 31 Jan 2024 11:00:10 +0000

Douglas Rushkoff discusses why he feels like we’re running away from what matters – or maybe from matter, itself.

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Shawn Kittelsen

Wed, 24 Jan 2024 11:00:59 +0000

Vice President, Creative at Skydance Interactive Shawn Kittelsen considers our society in revolt, and how pop media from comic books to video games help us see the choices before us

📕 Kittelsen’s new comic, Heart Attack, is now available!

About Shawn Kittelsen

Shawn Kittelsen is the Vice President, Creative at Skydance Interactive.

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Heather Dewey-Hagborg

Wed, 17 Jan 2024 12:54:51 +0000

Transdisciplinary artist and biohacker Heather Dewey-Hagborg shares her latest work on future pigs and hybrids.

Keep up with Heather Dewey-Hagborg

Website | Instagram

About Heather Dewey-Hagborg

Dr. Heather Dewey-Hagborg is a New York-based artist and biohacker who is interested in art as research and technological critique. Her controversial biopolitical art practice includes the project Stranger Visions in which she created portrait sculptures from analyses of genetic material (hair, cigarette butts, chewed up gum) collected in public places.

Heather has shown work internationally at events and venues including the World Economic Forum, the Daejeon Biennale, the Guangzhou Triennial, and the Shenzhen Urbanism and Architecture Biennale, Transmediale, the Walker Center for Contemporary Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and PS1 MoMA. Her work is held in public collections of the Centre Pompidou, the Victoria and Albert Museum, SFMoMA, among others, and has been widely discussed in the media, from the New York Times and the BBC to Art Forum and Wired.

Heather has a PhD in Electronic Arts from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She is an Artist-in-Residence at the Exploratorium, and is an affiliate of Data & Society. She is a founding board member of Digital DNA, a European Research Council funded project investigating the changing relationships between digital technologies, DNA and evidence.

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Rebecca Bray & Rachel Gita Karp

Wed, 10 Jan 2024 11:00:24 +0000

Executive Director of The Center for Artistic Activism Rebecca Bray and Program Director of The Center for Artistic Activism’s Unstoppable Voters Rachel Gita Karp show us how to make activist art with, and for, real communities.

🎨 Learn more about The Center for Artistic Activism.

About Rebecca Bray

Rebecca is an artist, educator and interaction designer who is passionate about audiences and engagement, and about creative and experimental approaches. Before joining the Center for Artistic Activism, she was the Chief of Experience Design and Evaluation at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. There she managed a team of 25 in developing and implementing innovative and creative educational programming about science and the natural world. Read more.

About Rachel Gita Karp

Rachel Gita Karp is the Program Director of C4AA’s Unstoppable Voters. Karp writes and directs activist performances for reproductive freedom and bodily autonomy, voting and voters, and increased gender representation in politics. Read more.

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Covid Speaks like ChatGPT

Wed, 03 Jan 2024 11:00:48 +0000

Douglas Rushkoff discusses what he's learning from Covid about the Internet and other Synthetic Experiences.

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In Depth with Douglas Rushkoff - Book TV

Wed, 27 Dec 2023 14:51:56 +0000

Douglas Rushkoff joined CSPAN's Book TV to discuss his career in a wide-ranging conversation with callers. Originally published by CSPAN on October 1, 2023.

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Kibbitz Room XIII

Thu, 21 Dec 2023 11:00:11 +0000

Playing for Team Human today, it’s Team Human! Douglas Rushkoff hosts the monthly Team Human call-in show from the community Discord server. This conversation was recorded on December 12, 2023.

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Carne Ross

Wed, 13 Dec 2023 11:00:13 +0000

Former British diplomat, Founder of Independent Diplomat, and author of The Leaderless Revolution Carne Ross introduces us to an anarchist’s vision of economic wellbeing.

About Carne Ross

Carne Ross is a former British diplomat, and Middle East and WMD expert, who resigned in 2004 after giving then-secret evidence to a British inquiry into the Iraq war. After Ross quit, he founded the world’s first non-profit diplomatic advisory group, Independent Diplomat, which advises democratic countries and political movements around the world.

📘 Now Available: The Leaderless Revolution

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Katherine G. Fry

Wed, 06 Dec 2023 11:00:18 +0000

Media Studies Professor Katherine Fry and author of Dynamic Media Environments Katherine G. Fry helps us see how the media environment in which a story is told may have a lot more to do with how we understand it than we realize.

About Katherine Fry

Since earning her Ph.D., Katherine G. Fry has been teaching and publishing in the areas of media research and criticism, television news, media culture and technology, and media literacy. A Fulbright recipient, she has lectured internationally in Turkey, Spain and Germany. Currently she is engaged in research that involves talking to audiences about how they define news. She also develops media literacy curricula for all ages and trains media literacy educators at the graduate level.

📘 Now Available: Dynamic Media Environments: Expanding the Scope of Media Literacy

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Demigod Wannabes

Wed, 29 Nov 2023 11:00:08 +0000

Douglas Rushkoff explains the differences between contemporary billionaires and their forebears — and why we should laugh and dismiss their increasingly bizarre behaviors.

📰 You can read ‘We will coup whoever we want!’: The unbearable hubris of Musk and the billionaire tech bros now.

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Kibbitz Room XII

Wed, 22 Nov 2023 11:00:14 +0000

Playing for Team Human today, it’s Team Human! Douglas Rushkoff hosts the monthly Team Human call-in show from the community Discord server. This conversation was recorded on October 31, 2023.

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Jem Bendell

Wed, 15 Nov 2023 11:00:50 +0000

Former Professor of Sustainability Leadership and author of Breaking Together: A Freedom-Loving Response To Collapse Jem Bendell tells us to stop pretending and learn how to navigate climate change through deep adaptation.

About Jem Bendell

Professor Jem Bendell is a world-renowned scholar on the breakdown of modern societies due to environmental change. Downloaded over a million times, his Deep Adaptation paper is credited with inspiring the growth of the Extinction Rebellion movement in 2018, and generated a global network to reduce harm in the face of societal collapse. He completed his PhD at the University of Bristol and his Geography BA (Hons) at the University of Cambridge. He was one of the few intellectuals on the green left who criticised many of the policies during the pandemic as being ineffective and harmful. Away from that work, and having stepped back as a Professor, he is now a regenerative farmer in Bali and a singer-songwriter, releasing an EP with the band Sambiloto.

Before the summer of 2023, Bendell was a full Professor of Sustainability Leadership and Founder of the Initiative for Leadership and Sustainability (IFLAS) at the University of Cumbria. Bendell was also the Founder of the Deep Adaptation Forum and the co-Founder of the International Scholars’ Warning on Societal Disruption and Collapse. A major transformation in Bendell’s career began in 2017 as he took a year out to study the latest climate science, and released the Deep Adaptation paper which went viral.

📘 Now Available: Breaking Together: A Freedom-Loving Response To Collapse

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Nora Bateson

Wed, 08 Nov 2023 11:00:17 +0000

Founder of The International Bateson Institute, filmmaker, educator, and author of Combining Nora Bateson shares the sense, and sensibility, of true interdependence — and helps us muster the courage to embrace ambiguity.

About Nora Bateson

Nora Bateson is an award-winning filmmaker, writer and educator, as well as President of the International Bateson Institute, based in Sweden. Her work asks the question “How we can improve our perception of the complexity we live within, so we may improve our interaction with the world?”. An international lecturer, researcher and writer, Nora wrote, directed and produced the award-winning documentary, An Ecology of Mind, a portrait of her father, Gregory Bateson. Her work brings the fields of biology, cognition, art, anthropology, psychology, and information technology together into a study of the patterns in ecology of living systems. Her book, Small Arcs of Larger Circles, released by Triarchy Press, UK, 2016 is a revolutionary personal approach to the study of systems and complexity.

📘 You can pre-order Bateson’s new book, Combining, now.

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LinkedIn | Bateson Institute

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Mitch Horowitz - Team Human Live in NYC

Wed, 01 Nov 2023 10:00:15 +0000

Author of Modern Occultism and historian of alternative spirituality Mitch Horowitz helps us launch the sigil that flips the script on civilization, itself. Live music by Steven Brent. This conversation was recorded live in collaboration with Digital Void at Caveat in New York City on Saturday, October 28, 2023.

About Mitch Horowitz

Mitch Horowitz is a historian of alternative spirituality and one of today’s most literate voices of esoterica, mysticism, and the occult. Mitch is a writer-in-residence at the New York Public Library and the PEN Award-winning author of books including Occult America; One Simple Idea; The Miracle Club; Daydream Believer; Uncertain Places; and Modern Occultism.

Keep up with Mitch Horowitz

Website | Twitter | Instagram | Medium

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Leaving X and Social Media Behind

Wed, 25 Oct 2023 10:00:42 +0000

Douglas Rushkoff explains his decision to leave X, and all social media platforms, behind him in a first-of-its-kind monologue-only episode of Team Human.

In his monologue, Rushkoff draws inspiration from Chaucer's Parlement of Foules to discuss how the platform dynamics of X/Twitter are unfit for nuanced discussion about global tragedies and human suffering.

🎟️ This Saturday, Oct. 28: Team Human Live returns! Douglas Rushkoff will be in conversation with Mitch Horowitz at Caveat in New York City! Join two award-winning authors for a special live podcast taping, book signing, live music, and social hour. Click here for tickets and livestream.

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Rushkoff on TIME's Person of the Week

Sat, 21 Oct 2023 11:00:34 +0000

Douglas Rushkoff was selected to be interviewed for TIME's Person of the Week podcast for a conversation about how human behavior is training AI. Originally publushed Sept. 7, 2023.

Keep up with TIME's Person of the Week

Podcast page | Excerpts from Rushkoff's conversation

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Andrea Chalupa

Wed, 18 Oct 2023 13:17:57 +0000

Activist, filmmaker, author, and podcaster behind Gaslit Nation Andrea Chalupa shows us how to muster the courage, tenacity ,and willpower to fight for the willpower we want.

About Andrea Chalupa

Andrea Chalupa is a journalist, filmmaker, author, and activist. She is the writer and producer of the journalistic thriller Mr. Jones, directed by three-time Academy Award-nominee Agnieszka Holland (Europa Europa; The Secret Garden; House of Cards; The Wire) and starring James Norton, Vanessa Kirby, and Peter Sarsgaard. Her script for Mr. Jones is being adapted into a graphic novel by Lion Forge, the animation studio that produced Matthew Cherry’s Academy Award-winning Hair Love. She is the author of Orwell and The Refugees: The Untold Story of Animal Farm, which was taught in several high schools in Canada in a genocide studies program called Orwell Art.

Andrea co-hosts the popular civic action podcast Gaslit Nation, a Webby Award Honoree, in the spirit of The Golden Girls sitting around a cheesecake discussing geopolitics. With her Gaslit Nation co-host Sarah Kendzior, Andrea wrote the bestselling graphic novel Dictatorship: It’s Easier Than You Think!, a wild ride showing the perks and pitfalls of becoming a dictator, and how to overthrow one.

Keep up with Andrea Chalupa

Website | Gaslit Nation | Twitter | LinkedIn

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A Message from Douglas

Wed, 11 Oct 2023 12:51:28 +0000

In a pause from our normal weekly release, Rushkoff reminds us not to dehumanize each other.

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Dennis Yi Tenen

Wed, 04 Oct 2023 10:00:56 +0000

Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and author of the forthcoming Literary Theory For Robots Dennis Yi Tenen shares the hidden history of modern machine intelligence — which has more to do with medieval poetry and Russian folktales than the myths being told by those in Silicon Valley.

📕 You can pre-order Dennis Yi Tenen’s new book, Literary Theory For Robots, now.

About Dennis Yi Tenen

Dennis Yi Tenen is an associate professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. His research happens at the intersection of people, text, and technology. A long-time affiliate of Columbia’s Data Science Institute and formerly a Microsoft engineer and a Berkman Center for Internet and Society Fellow, his code runs on millions of personal computers worldwide.

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Maggie Jackson

Thu, 28 Sep 2023 12:43:00 +0000

Award-winning author and journalist Maggie Jackson shares some of the insights of her new book, Uncertain: The Wisdom and Wonder of Being Unsure.

🎙️ In his monologue, Rushkoff advocates for a holistic understanding of life - not just individualized, mechanized processes.

📕 You can pre-order Maggie Jackson’s new book, Uncertain: The Wisdom and Wonder of Being Unsure now.

About Maggie Jackson

Maggie Jackson is an award-winning author and journalist known for her penetrating writings on social trends, particularly technology’s impact on humanity. Her forthcoming book Uncertain: The Wisdom and Wonder of Being Unsure (Nov. 7, 2023) has been praised as "beautiful, inspirational, compelling, and urgently needed" (Sherry Turkle), "powerful" (Bill McKibben), and "incisive and timely-triumphant" (Dan Pink). The book offers "cutting-edge science and practical insights," writes Gretchen Rubin.

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Kibbitz Room XI

Wed, 20 Sep 2023 15:32:22 +0000

Playing for Team Human today, it’s Team Human! Douglas Rushkoff hosts the eleventh Team Human call-in show from the community Discord server. This conversation was recorded on Sept. 7, 2023.

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Kevin Slavin

Wed, 13 Sep 2023 10:00:42 +0000

Working at the intersection of science, technology, and culture, Kevin Slavin introduces us to the weird and wonderful world of microbial sensing — and what pandemics can teach us about the game of life.

🎙️ In his monologue, Rushkoff discusses the importance of expertise and passion to help us understand each other beyond our utility value.

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Naomi Klein

Wed, 06 Sep 2023 10:00:33 +0000

Author and activist Naomi Klein and Douglas Rushkoff talk about her new book, Doppelganger, and take a trip into the mirror world.

🎙️ In his monologue, Rushkoff explains how one white supremacist’s rejection of economic common sense stuck.

📰 You can read Rushkoff’s monologue, The Tragedy of No Commons, on Medium.

📚 You can pre-order Naomi Klein’s book, Doppleganger: A Trip into the Mirror World, now.

Keep up with Naomi Klein

About Naomi Klein

Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author. She is a columnist with The Guardian. In 2018 she was named the inaugural Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair at Rutgers University and is now Honorary Professor of Media and Climate at Rutgers. In September 2021 she joined the University of British Columbia as UBC Professor of Climate Justice (tenured) and co-director of the Centre for Climate Justice.

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Madeline Ashby

Wed, 30 Aug 2023 10:00:54 +0000

Science fiction author and futurist Madeline Ashby helps us understand why Hollywood’s future belongs to people - not machines.

🎙️In his monologue, Rushkoff warns us that spectacle is what prevents us from seeing each other

📰 Read Ashby’s Wired piece, Hollywood’s Future Belong to People - Not Machines

Keep up with Madeline Ashby

Give Every AI a Soul - or Else

About Madeline Ashby

Madeline Ashby graduated from the first cohort of the M.Des. in Strategic Foresight and Innovation programme at OCADU in 2011. It was her second Masters degree. (Her first, in Interdisciplinary Studies, focused on cyborg theory, fan culture, and Japanese animation!) Since 2011, she has been a freelance consulting futurist specializing in scenario development and science fiction prototypes.

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Kibbitz Room X

Wed, 16 Aug 2023 10:00:12 +0000

Playing for Team Human today, it’s Team Human! Douglas Rushkoff hosts the ninth Team Human call-in show from the community Discord server. This conversation was recorded on August 01, 2023.

Rushkoff fields questions about the differences between creating content for broad audiences and expert communities, the different ways people define capitalism and fascism, the influence of The Social Dilemma, and the role of creatives in amplifying community needs.

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Émile P. Torres

Wed, 09 Aug 2023 10:00:26 +0000

Author of Human Extinction: A History of the Science and Ethics of Annihilation Émile P. Torres talks about TESCREAL- Transhumanism, Extropianism, Singularitarianism, Cosmism, Rationalism, Effective Altruism, and Longtermism.

🎙️ In his monologue, Rushkoff wonders if magic is our probable path to a sustainable future.

📰 You can read Rushkoff's monologue, Embracing the Impossible, on Medium.

About Émile P. Torres

Émile P. Torres’ work over the past decade has centered around a single theme: eschatology, whether religious, secular, or scientific. Recently, Torres has focused on the nature and causes of human extinction, its ethical implications, and the history of the idea.

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David Brin

Wed, 02 Aug 2023 10:00:21 +0000

Scientist, science fiction author, and futurist David Brin shows us how by granting AI’s individuality we can begin to hold them accountable for their actions.

🎙️ In his monologue, Rushkoff discusses his struggles with burnout and how he’s working to overcome it.

Episode Resources

Vivid Tomorrows

Atlas Shrugged: The Hidden Context of the Book and Film

Polemical Judo

About David Brin

David Brin is a science fiction author, scientist & transparency/internet security expert, public speaker & business/governmental consultant, and blogger/social media influencer. Learn more about Brin.

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Twitter | LinkedIn

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The Life and Thought Crimes of Robert Anton Wilson w/ Gabriel Kennedy

Wed, 26 Jul 2023 11:37:43 +0000

Author of Chapel Perilous: The Life and Thought Crimes of Robert Anton Wilson Gabriel Kennedy walks us through the Chapel Perilous and reminds us how important and essential Wilson’s work is in a world on the brink of conspiratorial madness.

🎙️In his monologue, Rushkoff discusses how Robert Anton Wilson modeled uncertainty as a form of play and the long-term implications of Operation Mindfuck.

📚 Pre-order Kenedy's Chapel Perilous: The Life and Thought Crimes of Robert Anton Wilson from MIT Press.

Follow Gabriel Kennedy

Twitter | Chapel Perilous | Medium

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Rushkoff on TrueAnon: Bloodless Hype Machines

Mon, 24 Jul 2023 10:00:39 +0000

Douglas Rushkoff joined TrueAnon for a conversation about AI hype cycles and human connection in a digital future. Provided as a special bonus for Team Human Podcast supporters. Originally published July 13, 2023.

About TrueAnon

TrueAnon is a podcast about your enemies made by your friends. Join unlicensed private investigators Liz Franczak, Brace Belden, and Yung Chomsky for a show that will drive you insane.

Support TrueAnon on Patreon

https://www.patreon.com/TrueAnonPod

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Kibbitz Room IX live from the Team Human Apocalypse Bunker

Wed, 19 Jul 2023 10:00:23 +0000

Playing for Team Human today, it’s Team Human! Douglas Rushkoff hosts the ninth Team Human call-in show from the community Discord server. This show was recorded on Friday, June 23, 2023.

Rushkoff fields questions about denaturalizing power in comedy, the mainstreaming of unidentified aerial phenomena, and the Musar movement.

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Nika Roza Danilova

Wed, 12 Jul 2023 10:00:49 +0000

Singer, songwriter, and producer behind Zola Jesus Nika Roza Danilova helps us recognize the power of the arts to reconnect us to the forces of nature.

🎙️ In his monologue, Rushkoff explains why older people make more plausible candidates.

📰 You can read Rushkoff’s monologue, You Want a Younger President?, on Medium.

About Nika Roza Danilova

Nika Roza Danilova, known professionally by her stage name Zola Jesus, is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer. Her music has been noted for combining elements of electronic, industrial, classical, and goth.

Keep up with Nika Roza Danilova

YouTube | Instagram | Website | Spotify

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Annie Kelly

Wed, 05 Jul 2023 11:00:45 +0000

QAnon Anonymous collaborator, conspiracy researcher, and postdoctoral researcher Annie Kelly helps us navigate the new landscape of conspiracy theory in a digital age.

🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff explains how the quest for empirical evidence can undermine our power.

📰 You can read Rushkoff’s monologue, Keep Memes Magical, on Medium.

About Annie Kelly

Annie Kelly is a Ph.D. student at the University of East Anglia researching the impact of digital cultures on anti-feminism and the far right, and is the Britain correspondent for the podcast “QAnon Anonymous.”

ManClan, the podcast series that Julian Feeld and Kelly are (slowly) working through about masculinity influencers,

Keep up with Annie Kelly

Twitter | QAnon Anonymous

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Thomas Negovan

Wed, 28 Jun 2023 10:00:15 +0000

Symbolist, curator, creator, and editor of a new version of Caligula Thomas Negovan discusses artistic and spiritual responses to the deadening effects of industrialism.

🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff asks us not to give up our local, home-field advantage by fighting for change on a huge abstract level

📰 You can read Rushkoff’s monologue, The Scaled Golum, on Medium.

📚 Read more about Negovan’s new version of Caligula.

About Thomas Negovan

Thomas Negovan is a writer, musician, and art historian from Chicago. He regularly lectures on Art Nouveau and Weimar era Berlin cabaret. In 2011 Negovan was the first artist to have recorded and released a song on wax cylinder in nearly a century. Later that year he presented a TEDx lecture on his experiences with archaic recording technologies titled By Popular Demand.

His first short film, Aurora, premiered in a rough cut on January 13, 2018 at the Century Guild Museum of Art with an accompanying exhibition of original costume designs, tintype photos taken on the set, and original props from the film. The final version premiered was released to the festival circuit in late 2018 and throughout 2019 and 2020, winning numerous awards in America and Japan. The new edit of Caligula (MMXX version) has been completed and will be released in 2023.

Keep up with Thomas Negovan

Century Guild | Twitter | Instagram | Patreon

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Kibbitz Room VIII live from the Team Human Apocalypse Bunker

Thu, 22 Jun 2023 12:51:55 +0000

Playing for Team Human today, it’s Team Human! Douglas Rushkoff hosts the eighth Team Human call-in show from the community Discord server. This show was recorded on Friday, May 19, 2023.

Rushkoff fields questions about how young artists struggle to imagine dream projects, how to use large language models creatively, and the ways we can combat AI doomerism?

🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff discusses how AI should be the center of the show – not hidden in the writer’s room.

📰 You can read Rushkoff’s monologue, How AI can Really Challenge Movies, on Medium.

🌍 You can support Team Human on Patreon to unlock access to a number of great perks including an ad-free episodes of Team Human, access to the Team Human Discord community where we record monthly Q&A sessions with Rushkoff, special perks like free tickets to live events, and access to the Rushkoff archive.

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Gary Marcus

Wed, 14 Jun 2023 11:00:04 +0000

Cognitive scientist, social entrepreneur, and author of Rebooting AI Gary Marcus helps us parse between the real and imagined threats of AI, shares his recent experience testifying before Congress, and discusses his plans to intervene on our behalf.

🎙️ In his monologue, Rushkoff discusses why tech bro warnings feel more like a coordinated money grab.

📰 You can read a written version of Rushkoff’s monologue, AI Panic = AI Hype, on Medium.

🌍 You can support Team Human on Patreon to unlock access to a number of great perks including an ad-free feed of Team Human beginning June 21, access to the Team Human Discord community where we record monthly Q&A sessions with Rushkoff, special perks like free tickets to live events, and access to the Rushkoff archive. This week, Team Human patrons can visit Patreon to gain access to free tickets to see Rushkoff, Mitch Horowitz, Jamie Cohen, and a great lineup of speakers at Digital Void's Memes, Myths, and Magic on June 21 at Caveat in New York City.

About Gary Marcus

Gary Marcus is a leading voice in artificial intelligence. He is a scientist, best-selling author, and serial entrepreneur (Founder of Robust.AI and Geometric.AI, acquired by Uber). He is well-known for his challenges to contemporary AI, anticipating many of the current limitations decades in advance, and for his research in human language development and cognitive neuroscience.

An Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Neural Science at NYU, he is the author of five books, including, The Algebraic Mind, Kluge, The Birth of the Mind, and the New York Times Bestseller Guitar Zero. He has often contributed to The New Yorker, Wired, and The New York Times. His most recent book, Rebooting AI, with Ernest Davis, is one of Forbes’s 7 Must Read Books in AI.

✨ Keep up with Gary Marcus

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Douglas Rushkoff: I Will Not Be Autotuned - Live from All Tech is Human's Responsible Tech Mixer

Wed, 07 Jun 2023 10:16:57 +0000

Douglas Rushkoff took the stage at All Tech is Human’s Responsible Tech Mixer to explain why he refuses to be autotuned in the face of technosolutionism and the rise AI. Recorded April 26, 2023, at Betaworks in New York City.

📺 Click here to watch a video of Rushkoff’s talk.

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Malcolm Harris

Fri, 02 Jun 2023 13:02:43 +0000

Author of Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and The World Malcom Harris helps us understand the history and foundations of the Silicon Valley mindset so we can better respond to its destructive capacity today.

🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff discusses how cultivating awe can save the world.

📰 You can read Rushkoff’s monologue, How Cultivating Awe Can Save The World, on Medium.

📕 Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and The World by Malcolm Harris is now available.

📗 Doug Rushkoff is Ready to Renounce the Digital Revolution - Wired

About Malcom Harris

Malcolm Harris is a freelance writer and the author of KIDS THESE DAYS, SHIT IS FUCKED UP AND BULLSHIT, and PALO ALTO (2023). He lives in Washington, DC.

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Fenton Bailey

Tue, 16 May 2023 11:46:30 +0000

TV Producer and Author of Screenage: How TV Shaped Our Reality From Tammy Faye to RuPaul’s Drag Race Fenton Bailey discusses the nature of the screen and the power it has unleashed for a designer reality.

🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff discusses how re-socializing the people can help us change the register.

📰 You can read Rushkoff’s monologue, Individual Liberty is No Longer the Goal, on Medium.

📕 Screenage: How TV Shaped Our Reality From Tammy Faye to RuPaul’s Drag Race by Fenton Bailey is now available.

About Fenton Bailey

Fenton Bailey is an award-winning producer and director who has worked with the likes of RuPaul, Britney Spears and Monica Lewinsky. He co-founded World of Wonder in 1991 whose ocumentaries have won acclaim for their focus on society's oddballs and outliers. Their show RuPaul's Drag Race has won dozens of Emmy Awards and they were executive producers on the 2021 biopic The Eyes of Tammy Faye, which won two Oscars.

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Kibbitz Room VII live from the Team Human Apocalypse Bunker

Mon, 08 May 2023 11:00:53 +0000

Playing for Team Human today, it’s Team Human! Douglas Rushkoff hosts the seventh Team Human call-in show from the community Discord server. This show was recorded on Friday, April 28, 2023.

Rushkoff fields questions about how AI will influence art and music production, the differences between artistic and corporate use of AI, and overcoming fear.

🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff discusses how AIs are trained to imitate, amplify, and accelerate human behavior — and why that means humans need to be good to each other now more than ever.

📰 You can read Rushkoff’s monologue, Teach Your Children, Even if They’re AIs, on Medium.

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Rex Weyler

Mon, 24 Apr 2023 11:04:46 +0000

Cofounder of Greenpeace and writer of the Deep Green column Rex Weyler helps us transcend the idea that we can fix the environment – or anything else – so we can finally learn to participate as members of a living world.

🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff discusses how re-socializing people can help us change the register.

📰 You can read Rushkoff’s monologue, Individual Liberty is No Longer the Goal, on Medium.

About Rex Weyler

Rex Weyler is a writer and ecologist. His books include Blood of the Land, a history of indigenous American nations, nominated for a Pulitzer Prize; Greenpeace: The Inside Story, a finalist for the BC Book Award and the Shaughnessy-Cohen Award for Political Writing; and The Jesus Sayings, a deconstruction of first century history, a finalist for the BC Book Award.

In the 1970s, Weyler was a cofounder of Greenpeace International and editor of the Greenpeace Chronicles. He served on campaigns to preserve rivers and forests, and to stop whaling, sealing, and toxic dumping.

He currently posts the “Deep Green” column at the Greenpeace International website. He lives on Cortes Island in British Columbia, with his wife, artist Lisa Gibbons.

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Claire Leibowicz, Justin Hendrix, John Borthwick, and Douglas Rushkoff - live at Betaworks

Fri, 14 Apr 2023 12:39:05 +0000

Head of the AI and Media Integrity Program at the Partnership on AI (PAI) Claire Leibowicz, Tech Policy Press CEO and Editor Justin Hendrix, Betaworks CEO John Borthwick, and Douglas Rushkoff come up with guiding principles for the future of artificial intelligence on a live panel discussion recorded at Betaworks on Monday, April 3.

🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff announces a new MA program in Media Arts and Performance, for community-minded artist, media activists, and performers.

📰 You can read Rushkoff’s monologue, Wanna Make Something Together, on Medium.

About Claire Leibowicz

Claire Leibowicz is the Head of the AI and Media Integrity Program at The Partnership on AI (PAI) and a doctoral candidate at Oxford. Claire has worked in AI and society for almost a decade, developing multistakeholder strategies, researching responsible AI, and informing technology practices and policies.

Keep up with Claire Leibowicz

Website | Twitter | LinkedIn | Partnership on AI

About Justin Hendrix

Justin Hendrix is CEO and Editor of Tech Policy Press, a new nonprofit media venture concerned with the intersection of technology and democracy. Previously, he was Executive Director of NYC Media Lab. He spent over a decade at The Economist in roles including Vice President, Business Development & Innovation. He is an associate research scientist and adjunct professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. Opinions expressed here are his own.

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About John Borthwick

John Borthwick is CEO of betaworks. betaworks is a technology company that builds and invests in companies across the social, data driven media internet. Companies that betaworks has built include Giphy, Dots, bitly and Chartbeat. Betaworks also acquired and re-launched Digg and Instapaper. Prior to betaworks, John was Senior Vice President of Alliances and Technology Strategy for Time Warner Inc. John’s company, WP-Studio, founded in 1994, was one of the first content studios in New York’s Silicon Alley. John holds an MBA from Wharton (1994) and an undergraduate degree BA in Economics from Wesleyan University (1987). He sits on the board of WNYC and the New Museum.

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Betaworks | Twitter | LinkedIn | Betaworks AI Camp: Argument

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Marina Gorbis & Jerry Davis

Thu, 30 Mar 2023 12:51:56 +0000

Executive Director of the Institute for the Future Marina Gorbis and Institute for the Future Equitable Enterprise Initiative Advisor Jerry Davis discuss how to change the register from industrial values to collaborative commerce.

🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff explains how denaturalizing power reveals the constructed landscape.

📰 You can read a written version of Rushkoff’s monologue, If it Ain’t Real, Don’t Fix it, on Medium.

About Marina Gorbis

Marina Gorbis is Executive Director of the Institute for the Future (IFTF), a 50-year old non-profit research and educational organization based in Silicon Valley. She has brought a foresight and a futures perspective to hundreds of organizations in business, education, government, philanthropy, and civic society. Marina’s current research focuses on transformations in the world of work and new forms of value creation.

📕 The Nature of the Future | 🎙 Future Now Podcast | Twitter

About Jerry Davis

Jerry Davis is the Gilbert and Ruth Whitaker Professor of Business Administration at the Ross School of Business and Professor of Sociology, The University of Michigan. Davis received his PhD from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University.

📕 Managed by the Markets | Twitter

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Alissa Quart

Mon, 20 Mar 2023 11:40:34 +0000

Executive Director of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and author of Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream Alissa Quart helps us dispel the myth of the self-made man once and for all.

🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff explains why he believes we’ve hit peak billionaire mindset.

📖 Alissa Quart’s book, Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream, is now available.

About Alissa Quart:

Alissa Quart is the author of five acclaimed books of nonfiction including the forthcoming Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream (Ecco, 2023), Squeezed (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2018), Republic of Outsiders (The New Press, 2013), Hothouse Kids (Penguin Press, 2006), and Branded (Basic Books, 2004). She is the Executive Director of the non-profit the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and is also the author of two books of poetry, Thoughts and Prayers and Monetized. She has written for many publications including The Washington Post, The New York Times, and TIME. Her honors include an Emmy, an SPJ award, and received a Nieman fellowship. She lives with her family in Brooklyn.

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Twitter | LinkedIn | Economic Hardship Reporting Hardship

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Kibbitz Room V live from the Team Human Apocalypse Bunker

Tue, 07 Mar 2023 10:00:39 +0000

Playing for Team Human today, it’s Team Human! Douglas Rushkoff hosts the sixth Team Human call-in show from the community Discord server. This show was recorded on Friday, February 17, 2023.

Rushkoff fields questions about virtual reality’s potential to transform storytelling, what it means to be punk, and how artists can navigate recent tech layoffs.

🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff discusses four interventions in the human machine he plans to explore with the Institute for the Future.

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Alex Holland

Thu, 23 Feb 2023 10:00:29 +0000

Journalist, Tea Pub operator, and Founder of SolarPunk Stories Alex Holland helps us learn to tell better and more constructive stories about our collective future.

🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff explains how AI can be compared to the Conquistadors.

📰 You can read a written version of Rushkoff’s monologue, How We Taught Technology to Program Humans, on Medium.

📕 Read Sell the Sizzle

About Alex Holland:

Alex has worked as a journalist in the UK, Venezuela and India, started and led the campaign to stop Brixton Market getting knocked down and created the world's first Tea Pub which was also Crowdcube's most shared startup. He loves reading, writing and is one of these lost tribes of posh people who was born in Brixton.

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Jeff Emmett

Wed, 15 Feb 2023 10:00:34 +0000

Co-founder of the Commons Stack and Token Engineering researcher at BlockScience Jeff Emmett tells us about the wonders of mycelia - and why we may all want to start considering ourselves mycopunks.

🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff explains how the only answer to more tech is more human investment

📰 You can read a written version of Rushkoff’s monologue, How to Grade Papers Written by AI, on Medium.

🍄 Learn more about Mycopunk Principles

About Jeff Emmett:

Jeff Emmett is a Token Engineering researcher at BlockScience, and co-founder of the Commons Stack. Drawing inspiration from mycelial networks and biomimetic processes, he realized he is and always has been a mycopunk - but now there's a word for it! His goal is to iterate towards a toolkit for customizable regenerative economies that support purpose-driven communities and mitigate the excesses of modern capitalism. Jeff is the author of Rewriting the Story of Human Collaboration and Challenges & Approaches to Scaling the Global Commons.

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Music by:

Human - Formidable Vegetable

Mycelium Around Ya - Formidable Vegetable

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Micah Sifry

Fri, 10 Feb 2023 13:34:21 +0000

Organizer, The Connector journalist, and author of The Big Disconnect Micah Sifry helps us evaluate how directly we need to be involved in political activism to keep democracy sustainable.

🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff shares a story about how the universe winked at him, and why he thinks we’ll all be okay.

📰 You can read a written version of Rushkoff’s monologue, Magic is Real, on Medium.

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The Connector | Mastodon | Twitter

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Kibbitz Room V live from the Team Human Apocalypse Bunker

Thu, 26 Jan 2023 12:53:45 +0000

Playing for Team Human today, it’s Team Human! Douglas Rushkoff hosts the fifth Team Human call-in show from the community Discord server. This show was recorded on Friday, January 20, 2023.

Rushkoff fields questions about how AI will change the educational landscape, the worldviews that emerged from 1950s speculative fiction, and why media ecology never took off in Europe.

🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff invites us to welcome the unpredictable.

📰 You can read a written version of Rushkoff’s monologue, Probability Leads Only to Death on Medium.

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Jessamyn West

Wed, 11 Jan 2023 13:06:52 +0000

Library technologist, owner of MetaFilter, and author of Without a Net: Librarians Bridging the Digital Divide, Jessamyn West shares the joys of hands-on technology education in the public library - and how modeling behavior may just work better than scaling it.

🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff discusses how to grade papers written by AI.

📰 You can read a written version of Rushkoff’s monologue, How to Read Papers Written By AI, on Medium.

📕 Learn more about West’s book, Without a Net: Librarians Bridging the Digital Divide.

About Jessamyn West:

Jessamyn West is a library technologist from Randolph Vermont. She is a nationally known speaker, writer, and educator on the issues facing today's libraries. Her blog focusing on libraries and politics, Librarian.net, is one of the earliest and longest running librarian websites.

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Website | Twitter | Today in Librarian Tabs

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Mitch Horowitz

Wed, 04 Jan 2023 11:32:00 +0000

Playing for Team Human today, historian of alternative spirituality and author of Uncertain Places: Essays on Occult and Outsider Experiences, Mitch Horowitz helps us figure out if we’re praying to the wrong gods.

🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff discusses the real and imagined dangers of artificial intelligence.

📰 You can read a written version of Rushkoff’s monologue, The Medium is the Message, on Medium.

About Mitch Horowitz:

Mitch Horowitz is a historian of alternative spirituality and one of today’s most literate voices of esoterica, mysticism, and the occult. Mitch illuminates outsider history, explains its relevance to contemporary life, and reveals the longstanding quest to bring empowerment and agency to the human condition.

📕 Mitch Horowitz’s new book, Uncertain Places: Essays on Occult and Outsider Experiences, is now available.

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Infectious Altruism - Holiday Special

Sat, 24 Dec 2022 11:00:19 +0000

In a special holiday message, Rushkoff imagines a world where infectious - not effective - altruism is the goal of communities.

🙏 Thank you to everyone who supported Team Human this year. We wish you a safe, healthy, and happy holiday season.

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Kibbitz Room IV live from the Team Human Apocalypse Bunker

Wed, 21 Dec 2022 11:00:56 +0000

Playing for Team Human today, it’s Team Human! Douglas Rushkoff hosts the fourth Team Human call-in show from the community Discord server.

Rushkoff fields questions about how his views on internet privacy have evolved over the last two decades, the different sensibilities of young generations, and his recent writing.

🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff discusses the changes he would make to Twitter if he became CEO of the platform.

📰 You can read a written version of Rushkoff’s monologue, If I Were CEO of Twitter, on Medium.

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Molly White

Wed, 14 Dec 2022 11:00:47 +0000

Software engineer, computer scientist, and creator of Web3 Is Going Just Great Molly White helps us determine whether Web3 is really going just great for humanity — and helps us figure out how much skepticism to have about the blockchain.

🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff discusses how 2022 was the year tech bro lunacy was exposed.

📰 You can read a written version of Rushkoff’s monologue, The Year Tech Bro Lunacy Was Exposed, on Medium.

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Website | Web3 is Going Great | Twitter

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Eric Zimmerman

Thu, 01 Dec 2022 11:00:12 +0000

Game Designer and author of The Rules We Break: Lessons in Play, Thinking, and Design, Eric Zimmerman helps us discover how learning to play can keep us from being played.

🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff discusses longtermism, metamodernism, and optimizing Twitter for a post-human future.

📰 You can read a written version of Rushkoff’s monologue, What’s a Meta For? - part two, on Medium.

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Website | Twitter | How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

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Noah Hutton

Wed, 23 Nov 2022 11:00:38 +0000

Writer and director of documentary and narrative films Noah Hutton helps us recognize the power and perfection in what might otherwise be considered our failings and mistakes.

🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff discusses big tech’s search for the ultimate escape hatch.

📰 You can read a written version of Rushkoff’s monologue, What’s a Meta For? - part one, on Medium.

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Cory Doctorow

Wed, 16 Nov 2022 13:56:45 +0000

Journalist and author of Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back , Cory Doctorow shares his latest thoughts on the ways the economy and creativity are being hacked by the perpetrators of chokepoint capitalism.

🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff discusses how Elon Musk may have undermined both authoritarianism and his hopes for a techno-monarchy.

📰 You can read Rushkoff’s monologue, How Elon Upstaged Trump, on Medium.

📖 Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back is now available.

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Surviving Apocalyptic Economics w/ Cory Doctorow and Rebecca Giblin - Live from Ottawa International Writers Festival

Wed, 09 Nov 2022 12:48:30 +0000

Douglas Rushkoff joins Cory Doctorow and Rebecca Giblin, authors of Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back, for a special panel recorded live from Ottawa International Writers Festival on October 24, 2022.

📖 Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back is now available.

📕 Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires is now available wherever books are sold.

🎧 Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires is produced by Record Books and narrated by Douglas Rushkoff.

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Greg Barris

Thu, 03 Nov 2022 10:00:00 +0000

Comedian and Creator of the Deep Healing Podcast Greg Barris shares the open secret to collective healing: Laughing together.

🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff shares the real promise of shared virtual realities

📰 You can read a written version of Rushkoff’s monologue, Now You See What I Mean, on Medium.

🎧 Learn more about Deep Healing with Greg Barris.

For more about Greg Barris

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In Celebration of Speculative Fiction: 22 Ideas About The Future Book Launch w/ Eva Pascoe, Stephen Oram, and Benjamin Greenaway

Wed, 19 Oct 2022 11:59:54 +0000

Douglas Rushkoff joins author Stephen Oram, editor Benjamin Greenaway, and cofounder of Cyberia Eva Pascoe for a special conversation about speculative fiction in celebration of the release of CyberSalon’s 22 Ideas About The Future. How does speculative fiction help us reveal truths we may have hidden from ourselves?

🎙 This conversation was recorded live from London’s Newspeak House on Thursday, September 29, 2022.

📕 Learn more about 22 Ideas About The Future, available now.

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Kibbitz Room III live from the Team Human Apocalypse Bunker

Thu, 06 Oct 2022 10:00:29 +0000

Playing for Team Human today, it’s Team Human! Douglas Rushkoff hosts the third Team Human call-in show from the community Discord server.

He fields questions from community members about Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires, the possibilities of Web3 after Ethereum’s swtich from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake, and how we can find hope in entertainment.

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Clinton Ignatov

Fri, 23 Sep 2022 10:00:10 +0000

Essayist and McLuhan archivist Clinton Ignatov helps us understand Marshall McLuhan - and ourselves - in the context of the media environments we inhabit and the metaphors we use to understand them.

🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff explains how our desperate attempts at profiteering and monopolization render us all more vulnerable to death and disaster.

📰 You can read a written version of Rushkoff’s monologue, How Capitalism Makes Us Less Safe, on Medium.

For more about Clinton Ignatov

Twitter | Website

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Sherry Turkle

Fri, 16 Sep 2022 13:44:29 +0000

Psychologist, sociologist, MIT Professor, and Author of Reclaiming Conversation and The Empathy Diaries, Sherry Turkle guest hosts Team Human in a special reverse interview to celebrate the release of Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires.

Turkle helps Rushkoff share his experiences with the men behind The Mindset to understand them in the greater context of the fear of intimacy and quest for domination fueling so many of their exploits.

🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff reflects on the release of Survival of the Richest and reminds us to engage with the ground — not just the figure.

📕 Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires is now available wherever books are sold.

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Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires - Twitter Spaces w/ Adrienne Gibbs

Wed, 14 Sep 2022 11:00:08 +0000

Douglas Rushkoff joins Medium's Adrienne Gibbs for a special Twitter Spaces conversation about the launch of his new book, Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires. Originally recorded September 9, 2022.

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Jenny Odell

Fri, 09 Sep 2022 09:27:27 +0000

Multi-disciplinary artist and author of How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy Jenny Odell conducts a rare reverse interview with Douglas Rushkoff to celebrate the launch of Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires.

Odell interrogates the premise and purpose of. Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires through the lens of her investigations about why we do what we do with technology.

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📕 Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires is now available wherever books are sold.

🎧 Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires is produced by Record Books and narrated by Douglas Rushkoff.

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Survival of the Richest

Tue, 06 Sep 2022 11:00:57 +0000

On this week’s episode, Douglas Rushkoff offers a special excerpt of his new book, Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires.

📕 Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires is now available wherever books are sold!

🎧 Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires is produced by Record Books and narrated by Douglas Rushkoff.

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Paris Marx

Wed, 31 Aug 2022 12:03:34 +0000

Author of Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong About the Future of Transportation and Host of Tech Won’t Save Us Paris Marx helps us see how the future of transportation imagined by our techno-benefactors may best be understood as a collective dead end.

🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff explains how laughter can be an antidote to help us view the mindset of tech billionaires.

📕 Road To Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong About the Future of Transportation is now available wherever books are sold.

Keep up with Paris Marx:

Twitter | Tech Won't Save Us

Resources mentioned on this episode:

Survival of the Richest - Douglas Rushkoff

Road To Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong About the Future of Transportation - Paris Marx

Technopoly - Neil Postman

Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Machine Age in the American City - Peter Norton

An Inconvenient Truth - Al Gore

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Marc Brickman

Wed, 24 Aug 2022 11:00:06 +0000

The lighting genius behind Pink Floyd and Bruce Springsteen, experience designer, and artist Marc Brickman shows us how centering the person in the very last row of the theater makes the experience better for everyone.

🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff explains the mindset behind why tech billionaires fear artificial intelligence — and why going meta isn’t a winning strategy.

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Janelle Orsi

Wed, 10 Aug 2022 12:32:30 +0000

Playing for Team Human today, Co-Founder of the Sustainable Economies Law Center and Senior Advisor to the Institute For The Future’s Equitable Enterprise Initiative, Janelle Orsi helps Rushkoff overcome his dream for a turn-key solution for greater wealth distribution.

🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff explains how we can transcend both denial and distraction when the world seems to be coming apart.

📰 You can read a written version of Rushkoff’s monologue, That Queasy Feeling, on Medium.

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Kibbitz Room II live from the Team Human Apocalypse Bunker

Wed, 03 Aug 2022 11:00:58 +0000

Playing for Team Human today, it’s Team Human! Douglas Rushkoff hosts the second Team Human call-in show from the community Discord server.

He fields questions from community members discussing how the ideals of the 1990s counterculture won, the role of religion in Team Human's mission, and why platform cooperatives have trouble scaling against venture capital-backed ventures. Recorded July 23, 2022.

You can participate in the next live Kibbitz room inside the virtual Apocalypse Bunker on Friday, August 26 at 1 PM ET. Live from the Team Human community Discord server.

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Conner Habib

Wed, 27 Jul 2022 11:09:05 +0000

Author of Hawk Mountain and Host of Against Everyone with Conner Habib, Conner Habib shows us how shared stories and identification with each other’s trauma can help us find a new level of solidarity with one another.

🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff explains why higher prices are not necessarily a bad thing.

📰 You can read a written version of Rushkoff’s monologue, Breaking News: Stuff Actually Costs a Lot, on Medium.

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Éliane Ubalijoro & David Jensen

Wed, 20 Jul 2022 11:00:56 +0000

UNEP co-champions of the Coalition for Digital Environmental Sustainability (CODES) Éliane Ubalijoro and David Jensen help us see how to marry big, top-down efforts with bottom-up reality.

🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff reminds us that no matter how bad things get, the basic principles of ethical behavior remain the same.

📰 You can read a written version of Rushkoff’s monologue, Don’t Change the Picture, Change Reality, on Medium.

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Kibbitz Room live from the Virtual Apocalypse Bunker

Wed, 13 Jul 2022 12:13:59 +0000

Playing for Team Human today, it’s Team Human! Douglas Rushkoff hosts the first live Team Human call-in show from the community Discord server.

He fields questions from community members discussing the different ways of acknowledging the value created and extracted by social media platforms, why algorithms tend to create fear-based affinity groups, and how to consider emerging technologies and Web3 for decentralized or cooperative governance. Recorded July 1, 2022.

You can participate in the next live Kibbitz room inside the virtual Apocalypse Bunker on Saturday, July 23, at 12 PM ET. Live from the Team Human community Discord server.

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Philip Rosedale

Wed, 06 Jul 2022 12:31:51 +0000

Founder of Second Life and High Fidelity Labs Philip Rosedale discusses the misguided efforts fueling Web3 and helps us retrieve the original mission for immersive social platforms.

🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff explores how speculators prevent crypto from working as a safe haven.

📰 You can read a written version of Rushkoff’s monologue, The Tail Wagging The Doge, on Medium.

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Lisa Lovebucket

Wed, 29 Jun 2022 12:32:47 +0000

Founder of The Creative Arts Recruitment Squad and The Post Apocalypse School of Teesside Lisa Lovebucket shows us how learning to prepare for the worst may give us the resilience we need to avoid apocalypse altogether.

🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff asks us not to abandon people in red states.

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Nick Kroll

Wed, 15 Jun 2022 11:00:54 +0000

Actor, comedian, and Big Mouth creator Nick Kroll argues for the power of comedy in challenging times.

🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff wonders if adults may have lost the ability to tell our kids that our adult lives are better than their tortured adolescence.

📰 You can read a written version of Rushkoff’s monologue, It Doesn’t Get Better?, on Medium.

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A Closer Look at Cyberia (KOPB, 1994) - Preview

Wed, 08 Jun 2022 11:30:37 +0000

Rushkoff explores the ecosystem of the early internet, the transition from a passive-to-active media environment, and how digital technology disrupts legacy media gatekeepers in a preview of this week's bonus content, an interview Rushkoff did about Cyberia for KOPB public radio in 1994.

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Micah Sifry

Wed, 01 Jun 2022 12:24:45 +0000

The Connector journalist, activist, and author of The Big Disconnect Micah Sifry helps us find a better, healthier way to metabolize current events.

🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff offers a short, but concrete, set of answers about how we can confront our global crises.

📰 You can read a written version of Rushkoff’s monologue, Rise to the Occasion, on Medium.

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Cyberia @ Powell's Books (1994) - Preview

Wed, 25 May 2022 15:38:00 +0000

Here's a preview of this week's bonus content: Douglas Rushkoff delivers a reading of Cyberia: Life in the Trenches of Cyberspace Rushkoff at Powell's Books in 1994.

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Sue Thomas

Wed, 18 May 2022 11:00:30 +0000

Author of Technobiophilia: Nature and Cyberspace Sue Thomas helps us recognize and restore the nature in our technology.

🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff reflects on Program or Be Programmed a decade after it was published.

📰 You can read a written version of Rushkoff’s monologue, Program or Be Programmed, on Medium.

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📕 Learn more about Sue Thomas’ book: Nature and Wellbeing in a Digital Age: How to Feel Better Without Logging Off.

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Special Announcement: Survival of the Richest

Wed, 11 May 2022 12:11:33 +0000

We always knew but now we know. The tech elite mean to leave us all behind. Tune in for a special announcement from Rushkoff about his new book, Survival of the Richest. Available everywhere September 6, 2022.

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Neşe Devenot and David Nickles

Wed, 04 May 2022 11:00:51 +0000

Postdoctoral Scholar in Bioethics at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine Neşe Devenot and Managing Editor of Psymposia David Nickles help us evaluate the current psychedelic renaissance, as well as those who may be abusing the power unleashed by the substances.

🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff discusses how psychedelics, like everything else, are political.

📰 Read a written version of Rushkoff's monologue, Avoiding the Power Trip, on Medium.

🎧 Listen to Cover Story: Power Trip from New York Magazine.

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Cyber Salon 2002 - Preview

Wed, 27 Apr 2022 12:30:02 +0000

How can we come to understand the human propensity to organize chaotic experiences into narrative, and our tendency to mistake our narratives for reality? Rushkoff explores in a talk originally delivered at Cyber Salon 2002.

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Hannah Close

Wed, 20 Apr 2022 11:00:00 +0000

Writer, researcher, and curator at Advaya Hannah Close helps to bring us from mere reciprocity to true kinship.

🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff discusses how haggling holds us all together.

📰 Read a written version of Rushkoff's monologue, The Fabric of Society, on Medium.

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Judaism as an Approach to Media and Society - Nothing Sacred Interview Preview

Wed, 13 Apr 2022 11:00:16 +0000

How can we view Judaism as less of a religion and more of an approach to media and society? Rushkoff explains in an interview originally recorded April 2002. From KAOS radio, Olympia, Washington.

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Ari Wallach

Wed, 06 Apr 2022 11:00:11 +0000

Founder and Director of Longpath and author of the upcoming book, Longpath: Becoming the Great Ancestors Our Future Needs, Ari Wallach discusses the fundamentally human need to belong, and how it will determine our collective chances for survival.

🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff stakes his future on the solidarity of the people over the cynicism of the elite.

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Douglas Rushkoff "There's No Such Thing as Content" - Trend Day Keynote Preview

Wed, 30 Mar 2022 11:00:21 +0000

Here's an excerpt from a keynote talk Rushkoff delivered at Trend Day 2002, an annual conference presented by Der Spiegel. Rushkoff discusses how the advent of interactivity has rendered the main means of communication obsolete and why corporations feel threatened by people creating and enjoying their own content.

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Mark Stahlman

Wed, 23 Mar 2022 11:00:32 +0000

President of the Center for the Study for Digital Life Mark Stahlman explains East, West, and Digital, the three spheres he believes are shaping the future of civilization, and how understanding the way they interact can help us strategize a way forward for humans.

🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff explains why he’s not an optimist anymore.

📰 You can read a written version of Rushkoff’s monologue, I’m Not an Optimist, on Medium.

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Douglas Rushkoff "Religion As Open-Source Proposition" - Preview

Wed, 16 Mar 2022 13:39:44 +0000

Here's an excerpt from a keynote talk Rushkoff delivered at the Silicon Alley Jewish Center in the early-2000s. Rushkoff explores the tenants of Judaism to learn if they can be applied to surveillance technology.

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Laurie Segall

Wed, 09 Mar 2022 12:00:05 +0000

Journalist, founder of Dot Dot Dot Media, and author of Special Characters: My Adventures with Tech's Titans and Misfits, Laurie Segall tells us what it’s like to interview people like Mark Zuckerberg, and why she holds out faith that their humanity may still rule the day.

🎙 In his monologue, discusses what we can do within our communities to help contribute to global crises.

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David McRaney

Wed, 23 Feb 2022 12:00:20 +0000

Science journalist and author of the forthcoming book, How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion, David McRaney explores the circumstances under which minds can change - and what it means for all of us.

🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff argues for the broad spectrum of reasons why humanity might have a special place in our universe.

📚 You can pre-order David’s new book, How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion, now.

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Douglas Rushkoff "Hidden Potential" - GEL 2006 Preview

Wed, 16 Feb 2022 12:00:21 +0000

Here's an excerpt of a talk Rushkoff delivered at Good Experience Live (GEL) 2006 about how hidden potential is wasted potential.

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Vicki Robin

Wed, 09 Feb 2022 12:00:41 +0000

Author of Your Money or Your Life and Blessing the Hands That Feed Us Vicki Robin explains what it means to be a town cryer - and how to maintain our friendships and civil interdependence.

🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff shares how he is finding success by diving in and experiencing the world head-on rather than avoiding it.

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📚 Blessing the Hands That Feed Us | Your Money or Your Life

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Douglas Rushkoff "Open-Source Reality" - Preview

Wed, 02 Feb 2022 12:00:34 +0000

Here's an excerpt of a talk Rushkoff delivered at the 2001 Reboot Conference in Denmark where he argues for alternate approaches to Silicon Valley's tech development.

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Divya Siddarth

Wed, 26 Jan 2022 12:00:45 +0000

Political economist and social technologist at Microsoft, and a researcher at the RadicalxChange Foundation, Divya Siddarth introduces us to The Pluriverse and challenges us to consider just how many worlds are possible.

🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff reminds us that our happiness does not need to be tied to our aspirations.

📰 Read A Declaration of the Interdependence of Cyberspace

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Renee Hobbs

Wed, 19 Jan 2022 12:00:27 +0000

Founder of the Media Education Lab and author of Mind Over Media: Propaganda Education for a Digital Age Renee Hobbs joins Rushkoff to discuss how the enlightenment project can work without gatekeepers.

🎙In his monologue, Rushkoff wrestles with his decision to focus on local civics as the influence of national culture wars seep in.

📚 Renee’s book, Mind Over Media: Propaganda Education for a Digital Age, is now available.

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Jamie Cohen

Wed, 12 Jan 2022 11:00:45 +0000

Head of Education at Digital Void and cultural theorist Jamie Cohen walks us through — and hopefully to the other side — of our fascist media environment.

🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff argues that the culture wars on Twitter and television are not based in reality, but rhetoric.

📰 You can read a written version of Rushkoff’s monologue, Move Along: The Car Crash is Fake, now on Medium.

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Maggie McGuane

Wed, 22 Dec 2021 12:00:42 +0000

Mass casualty animal rescuer Maggie McGuane shares the exhilarating joy of being part of the life force that is our planet.

🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff explores how he’s embracing compassion of the moment.

🐾 Learn more about Wings of Rescue: https://wingsofrescue.org/

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Alex Kazemi - Preview

Wed, 15 Dec 2021 12:00:41 +0000

Here's a preview of this week's bonus episode featuring author of Pop Magick: A Guide to Bending Your Reality Alex Kazemi in conversation with Douglas Rushkoff. Kazemi explores how to restore autonomy, agency, and connection with the others.

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Stuart Swezey

Wed, 08 Dec 2021 12:00:41 +0000

Founder of Amok Books and producer of the documentary Desolation Center Stuart Swezey helps us remember what it’s like to do something for its own sake, and stop before it becomes something else.

🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff reminds us of the work involved in producing social media content, and the real downsides of being on 24/7.

📰 You can read a written version of his monologue, We Are Not Alone on Medium.

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Cristian Movila - Preview

Wed, 01 Dec 2021 12:00:19 +0000

Here's a preview of Douglas Rushkoff's conversation cristian movila, founder of the original UNFINISHED festival and arts, culture, and technology gathering. Rushkoff explores his digital, cyberpunk roots.

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David Zweig

Wed, 24 Nov 2021 12:00:21 +0000

Writer, lecturer, and musician David Zweig explores how we must embrace nuance in scientific arguments in order to break away from binary thinking — and, ultimately, earn public trust.

🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff remembers his late accountant, Sheldon Gordon, and how we can morally blend together our economic and social lives.

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Greg Barris - Preview

Wed, 17 Nov 2021 12:00:12 +0000

Here’s a special preview of comedian Greg Barris in conversation with Doulgas Rushkoff. Rushkoff and Barris discuss Barris’ research into Immanuel Velikovsky’s theories of worlds in collision.

🎟 You can see Barris at his Deep Healing show at Union Hall in New York City on January 19, 2022. Tickets are available here.

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Ryan George

Wed, 10 Nov 2021 12:00:09 +0000

Actor, writer, and media philosopher Ryan George helps us contend with the absurdity of our particular instance in the multiverse.

🎙In his monologue, Rushkoff ponders what Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse means for our humanity.

📰 You can read a written version of Rushkoff’s monologue on CNN.

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Unfinished Live "A Better Web is Possible: How Do We Make it Happen?" - Preview

Wed, 03 Nov 2021 11:00:49 +0000

Here's a special preview of the panel "A Batter Web is Possible: How Do We Make it Happen?" featuring Founder of Cyber Collective Tazin Khan Norelius, Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council Katherine Maher, Associate Political Economist and Social Technologist at Microsoft and RadicalXChange, Divya Siddarth, and Douglas Rushkoff. Live from Unfinished on September 24, 2021.

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xiaowei r. wang - Live from Unfinished Live

Wed, 27 Oct 2021 11:00:51 +0000

Author of Blockchain Chicken Farm and creative director at Logic Magazine Xiaowei Wang helps us contend with the fact that social trust simply may not be something that can scale.

🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff asks why we should create solutions “at scale” if operating at scale, itself, is the problem.

📰 You can read a written version of Rushkoff’s monologue, Exponential Tech Doesn’t Serve Social Good, on Medium.

📖 Blockchain Chicken Farm by Xiaowei Wang is now available at your favorite indie bookstore.

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Amber Case Twitter Spaces - Preview

Wed, 20 Oct 2021 11:00:01 +0000

Here’s a special preview of cyborg anthropologist Amber Case's Twitter Spaces event with Douglas Rushkoff. Originally recorded October 6, 2021.

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Ryan Broderick

Wed, 13 Oct 2021 10:00:04 +0000

Garbage Day journalist and host of the Content Mines Podcast Ryan Broderick brings us up-to-date on the current state of meme play.

🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff explores how the World Wide Web flattened a meta-community of digital nomads.

📰 You can read a written version of Rushkoff's monologue, Did the Homepage Kill the Internet?, on Medium.

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Sarah Pessin - Preview (2021 Salon)

Wed, 06 Oct 2021 11:00:47 +0000

Here’s a special preview of Professor of Philosophy and Jewish Thought at the University of Denver Sarah Pessin's live salon with Douglas Rushkoff from a special Team Human Salon live from Team Human’s Discord community. Originally recorded September 3, 2021.

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Ellen Pearlman

Wed, 29 Sep 2021 11:00:32 +0000

New media artist, curator, writer, and creator of, Noor: A Brain Opera, the world’s first immersive interactive brain opera, Ellen Pearlman brings us where no machine can go: Into the last soft, squishy recesses of human experience still inaccessible to our robot overlords.

🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff reminds us about the importance of reducing our exposure to the global information onslaught.

📚You can read the written version of Rushkoff’s monologue, “Turning off the "News"” on Medium.

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The Yes Men on Newsmax - Preview

Wed, 22 Sep 2021 11:00:47 +0000

Here’s a special preview of The Yes Men’s Andy Bichlbaum in conversation with Rushkoff explaining how he was invited to return to Newsmax as “Paul Wolfowitz” — and what happened on the air. The Yes Men’s Originally recorded September 11, 2021.

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Richard Heinberg

Wed, 15 Sep 2021 11:00:48 +0000

Author of Power: Limits and Prospects for Human Survival and senior fellow-in-residence Post Carbon Institute fellow Richard Heinberg shares the simple truth that power has a lot less to do with what you’re granted or what you have than what you do.

🎙In his monologue, Rushkoff explores the opportunity we have to confront the realities of climate change now that its effects are here. “But now that the effects of our own activity are upon us, we have no more power to mitigate them than the toddler does of preventing chest of drawers from toppling over.

📚You can read the written version of Rushkoff’s monologue, “It’s Good to Feel Small” on Medium.

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R. U. Sirius (1993) - Preview

Wed, 08 Sep 2021 11:00:35 +0000

Founding editor of High Frontiers, Reality Hackers, and Mondo 2000, R. U. Sirius and Douglas Rushkoff discuss Mondo 2000's cultural influence, memes, and how to create a fool proof media virus. This is a special preview of a conversation recorded in 1993.

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Irwin Kula

Wed, 01 Sep 2021 14:00:12 +0000

President of the National Jewish Center for Leading and Leadership, author of Yearnings: Embracing the Sacred Messiness of Life, and seventh-generation rabbi Irwin Kula brings us through a spiritual journey in the desert — and may just show us the strength to stay there in the in-between.

🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff explains his hope that blockchains and cryptocurrencies can become something other than another asset class for a generation of traders. “Our marketplaces should never be in service to its financial utilities or the people monopolizing them. Nor should the metrics of economic health be based on the requirement of capital to grow.”

📰 You can read Can’t We Use Crypto for Something Other Than Capitalism, a written version of Rushkoff’s monologue on Medium.

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Special Report: Yes Men's Andy Bichlbaum Pranks Newsmax

Mon, 23 Aug 2021 16:11:11 +0000

On this Team Human special report, The Yes Men’s Andy Bichlbaum explains how he duped Newsmax into letting an imposter former Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz discuss his regret for the Afghanistan War for 11 minutes!

📖 Read The YesLab’s report: “War is all we’ve got // How to invent a great conservative talking point” for a full behind-the-curtain story.

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🎧 Andy previously appeared on Team Human Ep. 05 “Playful Resistance”

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Sarah Pessin

Wed, 18 Aug 2021 11:00:18 +0000

Professor of Philosophy and Jewish Thought at the University of Denver Sarah Pessin helps us learn to treasure the great human in-between. The living, delightfully incomplete, and always never-quite-thereness of our collective human journey.

🎙In his monologue, Rushkoff discusses how epidemiologists are stuck in a real-time feedback loop with public health — and the importance of cutting people slack.

📚You can read the written version of his monologue, Why the CDC Should Have Never Gotten Involved in Manufacturing Consent, on Medium.

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Jeremy Lent Salon - Preview

Wed, 11 Aug 2021 12:49:13 +0000

Author of The Web of Meaning and The Patterning Instinct, Jeremy Lent joins Douglas Rushkoff for a special Team Human Salon live from Team Human’s Discord community. Here’s a sneak preview of their conversation. Originally recorded August 6, 2021.

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Naomi Klein

Wed, 04 Aug 2021 11:00:08 +0000

Author and activist Naomi Klein engages with Rushkoff on media and society on the occasion of winning the Media Ecology Association’s Neil Postman award for career achievement in public intellectual activity. How is narrative in peril? Rushkoff and Klein explain how ecology can help provide a grand narrative.

🎙In his monologue, Rushkoff makes the case to enact a Gentle Awakening for our loved ones who have become addicted to conspiracy fever.

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John Perry Barlow - Preview

Wed, 28 Jul 2021 11:00:57 +0000

Cofounder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, lyricist for the Grateful Dead, and psychedelic hero John Perry Barlow (1947-2018) and Rushkoff discuss the the War on Drugs and the widespread fear of computers in a conversation recorded circa 1992. Here, Barlow introduces Rushkoff to the phrase “cultural immune response,” which later served as inspiration for 1995’s Media Virus.

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Jeremy Lent

Wed, 21 Jul 2021 02:38:47 +0000

Author of The Patterning Instinct and The Web of Meaning, Jeremy Lent helps us see through to the meaning that informs our science so that it can be used to embrace the paradox of our existence, rather than reducing it down to a form suitable only for exploitation.

In his monologue, Rushkoff explores how well-natured attempts to improve language will almost always fall short because of the underlying structure of the language we use. “We must also accept that language is just another medium that will almost always fail to say what we truly mean.”

📚 You can read Rushkoff’s “What if All Language is Oppressive?” on Medium.

📖 The Web of Meaning is available now. It’s an important refutation of the orthodox materialism that is plaguing science and culture. It’s a helpful reminder that those of us experiencing the world as a meaningful place are not the crazy ones.

🌍Jeremy Lent will be joining Team Human’s official Discord channel on Friday, August 6, at 1:00 PM ET for a special Team Human Salon.

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Heather Dewey-Hagborg + Joerg Blumtritt "An Oral History of the Internet" (Preview)

Wed, 14 Jul 2021 11:00:30 +0000

Here’s a sneak preview of this week’s Team Human Patreon-exclusive bonus content: Rushkoff, information artist and bio-hacker Heather Dewey-Hagborg, and visiting Assistant Professor of Practice of Interactive Media Joerg Blumtritt participate in ‘An Oral History of the Internet’. Rushkoff shares his early experience of the internet how the internet has changed over time. This project was sponsored by the NYUAD Art Gallery and the NYUAD Institute. Originally recorded June 9, 2021.

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Nate Hagens

Wed, 07 Jul 2021 10:00:16 +0000

Co-Founder & Director of the Institute for the Study of Energy & Our Future, Nate Hagens deconstructs some of our deeply held beliefs about climate change and offers us a few dangerous and inexpensive ways to keep our species sustainably happy. How can we learn to live with less?

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Tyson Yunkaporta in High Fidelity - Patreon Special (Preview)

Wed, 30 Jun 2021 11:00:23 +0000

Here's a preview of this week's bonus episode: Sand Talk author Tyson Yunkaporta joins Douglas Rushkoff in Team Human's High Fidelity spatial audio room for a special salon. Team Human teammates were granted a special opportunity to join live. Originally recorded on May 8, 2021. You can gain full access to this conversation by becoming a supporter today at: patreon.com/teamhuman

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Duncan Trussell

Wed, 23 Jun 2021 11:00:20 +0000

Comedian, composer, contemporary buddhist, and host of the Duncan Trussell Family Hour Duncan Trussell and Rushkoff travel far and wide through spirituality and synchronicity to help us discover what it means to be truly human, together. Is the hope that life — and conversations, themselves — continue after death? How can humans grapple with the Buddhist belief of truly learning to let go of “the dream”?

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Ode to Robert Anton Wilson - The Stoa (Preview)

Wed, 16 Jun 2021 11:00:35 +0000

Here's a preview of this week's Team Human bonus content: A talk Rushkoff gave about the late Robert Anton WIlson and his notion of the chapel perilous. Rushkoff shares the story of the first time he met RAW and why RAW believed a skeptic's worldview isn't safer than any other worldview. This talk includes a conversation with The Stoa's Rebecca Fox and Peter Limberg. Recorded March 2021.

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Alexander Stern

Wed, 09 Jun 2021 11:00:01 +0000

Writer, philosopher, and author of The Fall of Language, Alex Stern helps us distinguish who we are from what we tweet. Further, he explores how enlightenment values end up turning into their opposite — and why the word “fascism” can be a barrier to understanding culture.

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Bruce Sterling - Patreon Special (~1990)

Wed, 02 Jun 2021 11:00:33 +0000

Here's a special preview of science fiction author Bruce Sterling's conversation with Douglas Rushkoff circa 1990. Sterling had just co-written The Difference Engine with William Gibson. This conversation was recorded in part to research for Rushkoff's Cyberia.

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Arthur Jones & Giorgio Angelini "Feels Good Man"

Wed, 26 May 2021 11:00:47 +0000

Feels Good Man filmmakers Arthur Jones and Giorgio Angelini show us how a great meme can go bad — and how to take it back again.

Rushkoff, Angelini, and Jones explore the evolution of Matt Furie’s Pepe the Frog from stoner frog to alt-right meme. When did internet culture became real-world culture? How did a community of trolls who wanted to manipulate reality end up effecting physical space? When was the moment that fan fiction became mainstream?

In his monologue, Rushkoff addresses the cycle of bad faith arguments amplified by Twitter that end up destroying real conversation — and many talented people’s credibility. “Once you cross over into the land of make-believe facts — however earnest you believe your intention is — it undermines not only your argument, but the whole social fabric. It undermines our entire collective quest as human beings to figure out what the heck is really going on here.” Rushkoff says.

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Ken Jordan - Patreon Special (2009)

Wed, 19 May 2021 11:00:05 +0000

Here's a special preview of Reality Sandwich Co-Founder and Editorial Director of Lucid News Ken Jordan and Douglas Rushkoff's conversation from WFMU's The Media Squat. Jordan explains how cultural change works, the 2012 prophecy, and art's role in giving voice to the unspoken. Originally aired June 22, 2009.

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Ela Minus

Wed, 12 May 2021 11:00:13 +0000

Musician and composer Ela Minus introduces us to her acts of rebellion and shows us how music can help us find the others against all efforts to prevent it. Minus’ new album, Acts of Rebellion is streaming everywhere now.

In his monologue, Rushkoff explores how robots can help us appreciate and understand what it means to be human. "You need the next medium in order to understand the value of the medium that you’re in.” Rushkoff says.

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Yes Men - Patreon Special (2009)

Wed, 05 May 2021 11:00:53 +0000

Here's a special preview of The Yes Men's conversation with Rushkoff from an episode of WFMU's The Media Squat in 2009. Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno discuss their 2009 film The Yes Men Fix The World, how they measure success, and bias against situationist-style media pranking. Originally aired August 3, 2009.

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Luke Burgis

Wed, 28 Apr 2021 11:00:28 +0000

Entrepreneur and author of Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life Luke Burgis shares the reasons behind Silicon Valley's obsession with the philosophies of former Stanford Professor René Girard and whether we can ever transcend the human impulse of wanting to be like someone else.

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danah boyd - Patreon Special (2009)

Wed, 21 Apr 2021 11:00:25 +0000

danah boyd is a Partner Researcher a Microsoft Research, the founder and president of Data & Society, and a visiting professor at New York University. In this conversation from 2009, Rushkoff and boyd discuss how Myspace was turning into a "digital ghetto" as Facebook was becoming the dominant social media platform. Further, boyd explores the digital practices of underrepresented populations.You can access the full conversation now by becoming a contributing supporter at patreon.com/teamhuman.

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Frank Brodhead

Wed, 14 Apr 2021 11:00:25 +0000

Author and lifelong community and climate activist Frank Brodhead helps us transform our rage and despair into hope and action. Why is environmentally-friendly policy never the focal point of political leadership? “I think so much of local politics has to do with maintaining the resale value of people’s main asset, that’s their home. The last thing that responsible political leadership is to maintain a stable climate.” Frank says. Even in the face of despair, Frank provides reason for us to keep playing for Team Human.

In his monologue, Rushkoff explores why film and television needs to embrace the human soul. “You can’t get to those questions with the best film technology alone. You need also to be able to embrace that weird extra special something about the human soul.” and recalls a discussion with Richard Dawkins and Naomi Wolf about moralism.

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David Pescovitz (2009) - Patreon Special

Wed, 07 Apr 2021 11:00:32 +0000

David Pescovitz is a former research director at Institute for the Future and a former editor at Boing Boing and Wired Magazine. Rushkoff and Pescovitz explore the characteristics of innovative people, simulation theory, and the importance of wonder in a conversation originally aired on WFMU's The Media Squat. You can access the full conversation now by becoming a contributing supporter at patreon.com/teamhuman.

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Kenya (Robinson)

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 11:00:07 +0000

Socialite, philanthropist, international southerner, mischief maker and self-described shit-starter, Kenya (Robinson) investigates gender, consumerism, and ability through unexpected performative actions and sculptural gestures.

In his monologue, Rushkoff reminds us that it's okay to turn to civics to avoid burnout from 24/7 political coverage. "Civics is something different than politics. Civics is helping other people." He also proposes people use non-fungible tokens to critique the art market. “The current NFT market in some ways is anti-art in that it’s simply reinforcing capitalism.”

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Xeni Jardin - Patreon Special

Wed, 24 Mar 2021 11:00:02 +0000

Here's a sneak peak of tech culture journalist and former Boing Boing editor Xeni Jardin discussing the power of bottom-up media from WFMU's The Media Squat. Originally aired on April 13, 2009. You can stream the full conversation by becoming a contributing supporter of Team Human at Patreon.com/TeamHuman,

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Tyson Yunkaporta

Wed, 17 Mar 2021 12:00:29 +0000

Author of “Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World” and member of the Apalech Clan, Tyson Yunkaporta helps us reckon with the end of civilization. Have we accidentally reintroduced circularity into our systems? Is there a way to integrate western civilization’s ideal of progress with integral theory?

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Dennis McKenna (1992) - Patreon Special

Wed, 10 Mar 2021 12:00:06 +0000

Ethnopharmacologist Dennis McKenna, brother of the late Terence McKenna, meets Douglas Rushkoff for research related to Cyberia in 1992. McKenna and Rushkoff discuss DMT, cybernetic evolution, the ongoing development of the human being, and more in a special bonus episode exclusive to Team Human patrons. You can listen to the full conversation by becoming a contributing supporter now: patreon.com/teamhuman

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Cyberia Reunion in High Fidelity (feat. R. U. Sirius, Jody Radzik, Ani Phyo., and Nick Philip)

Wed, 03 Mar 2021 12:00:15 +0000

Playing for Team Human today, R. U. Sirius, Nick Philip, Annie P.O, and Jody Radzik, look back on the magical explosion at the intersection of art and technology in the early-1990s rave scene.

This episode was recorded in High Fidelity, a real-time spatial audio software developed by Second Life co-founder Philip Rosedale.

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Aleister & Adolf: Rushkoff and Michael Oeming on Jimmy Church's FADE to Black - Patreon Special

Wed, 24 Feb 2021 12:00:38 +0000

In celebration of the paperback release of Dark Horse's Aleister & Adolf, Douglas Rushkoff and Michael Oeming join Jimmy Church's FADE to BLACK to discuss the graphic novel's 2016 release. To gain full access to this conversation you can become a contributing supporter of Team Human at https://www.patreon.com/teamhuman.

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Vicki Robin

Wed, 17 Feb 2021 12:00:18 +0000

Playing for Team Human today, social innovator, writer, and host of, “What Could Possibly Go Right?” Vicki Robin.

Vicky will be helping us find ways to emerge from this moment of social and economic despair, so we can reckon - together - with the consequences of confusing monetary wealth with human freedom.

In his monologue, Rushkoff explains the difficulty the United States has coordinating a Covid-19 vaccine response. “The biggest threat to our collective health is our alienation from the underlying cycles.”

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Genesis P-Orridge: 1993 conversation (Part 3) - Patreon Special

Wed, 10 Feb 2021 12:00:43 +0000

Genesis P-Orridge meets Douglas Rushkoff for the first time in a 1993 car ride from San Francisco to Los Angeles. The third of a three-part bonus series, available exclusively to Team Human Patreon supporters. You can become a contributing supporter at https://www.patreon.com/teamhuman

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Yaël Eisenstat

Wed, 03 Feb 2021 12:00:06 +0000

Playing for Team Human today, former Global Head of Elections Integrity Operations for Political Advertising at Facebook, diplomat, corporate social responsibility advisor, and technology activist, Yaël Eisenstat. Eisenstat helps us distinguish between the conscious and the automatic malfeasance of our social infrastructure.

In his monologue, Rushkoff explores how the people on r/WSB delivered cybernetic feedback to those who deserve it.

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Genesis P-Orridge: Bonus 1993 conversation (Part 2) - Patreon Special

Wed, 27 Jan 2021 12:00:35 +0000

Genesis P-Orridge meets Douglas Rushkoff for the first time in a 1993 car ride from San Francisco to Los Angeles. The second of a three-part bonus series, available exclusively to Team Human Patreon supporters. You can become a contributing supporter at https://www.patreon.com/teamhuman

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Mark Pesce

Mon, 18 Jan 2021 12:00:06 +0000

Playing for Team Human today, futurist, inventor, and author of “Augmented Reality,” Mark Pesce.

Pesce augments our understanding of the many interfaces between ourselves and whatever it is that’s out there. Does cybernetics break the western conception of linear time, arrow-for-progress, colonial expansion thing?

In his opening monologue, Rushkoff discusses why elected officials should not be on social media platforms. “The minute we put banks and other real stuff on here is the minute it started to go wrong.” Further, he looks at how early-stage internet fan fiction crept into reality and ended up addicted to fractalnoia.

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Genesis P-Orridge: Bonus 1993 conversation (Part 1) - Patreon Special

Wed, 13 Jan 2021 12:00:18 +0000

Genesis P-Orridge meets Douglas Rushkoff for the first time in a 1993 car ride from San Francisco to Los Angeles. The first of a three-part bonus series, available exclusively to Team Human Patreon supporters. You can become a contributing supporter at https://www.patreon.com/teamhuman

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Conner Habib

Wed, 06 Jan 2021 12:00:36 +0000

Playing for Team Human today, porn star, sex workers’ rights activist, lecturer, and host of Against Everyone Podcast, Conner Habib.

Conner takes us from the case against PornHub to the living, thinking current constituting human existence. How is sexual energy one way to understand our organismic relationship to life energy and one another? What are ways this gets repressed or cut off?

"The war on sex is the longest and oldest running war on consciousness. Sex creates an altered state of consciousness." - Conner Habib.

In his opening monologue, Rushkoff reflects on 2020 and explains how Black Rock executives and neoliberal policies will not solve the United States’ issues.

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Riane Eisler "From Domination to Partnership"

Wed, 23 Dec 2020 12:00:50 +0000

Playing for Team Human today, social systems scientist, cultural historian, and author of "Nurturing Our Humanity," Riane Eisler.

Eisler helps us see how to transcend the dominator model in economics, politics, and our personal interactions to find new ways to partner with one another, and everything. How we can tell an integrated story to combat a regressive economic and social agenda?

In his opening monologue, Rushkoff explores how intimacy and uncertainty help make podcasting a special and unique medium. He also looks at how robots are not doing a better job doing labor, but rather have become more efficient at hiding human labor.

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Harvey Pekar: Bonus 2009 Interview - Patreon Special

Wed, 16 Dec 2020 12:00:31 +0000

This is a special preview of a bonus episode featuring American comic book writer Harvey Pekar in conversation with Douglas Rushkoff in 2009 on WFMU's Media Squat. You can listen to the full episode by supporting Team Human on Patreon.

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Julia Watson "Survival of the Most Symbiotic"- Live from IMPAKT Festival

Tue, 08 Dec 2020 12:00:55 +0000

Playing for Team Human today, designer, activist, academic, and author of Lo-Tek Radical Design by Radical Indigenism, Julia Watson.

Watson discusses how we can respond to climate change by utilizing millennia-old knowledge about how we can live in symbiosis with nature. What are the cultural preconditions required to implement a living bridge and other indigenous technologies? How can western society better create technology through the elements that already exist in our surrounding environment?

In his opening monologue, Rushkoff explains how progress became associated with colonialism and advocates for us to retrieve circular and advanced mechanisms for human and interspecies flourishing.

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Sonia Shah "We're Always Strangers, Ourselves" - Live from IMPAKT Festival

Wed, 25 Nov 2020 12:00:47 +0000

Playing for Team Human today, investigative journalist and author of “The Next Great Migration: The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move,” Sonia Shah. Shah challenges conventional assumptions about migration and reveals how it has long been central to the human experience. Further, she looks ahead to how climate change will force the next great human migration, and how we can all view each other not as strangers, but as fellow humans.

In his opening monologue, Rushkoff connects the plight of billionaire technologists imagining apocalyptic scenarios and building bunkers with the migration patterns of the Israelites in Torah. "We'll always be welcoming strangers because we'll always be strangers, ourselves."

This episode of Team Human was recorded live at IMPAKT Festival 2020 from Utrecht.

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David Lynch: Bonus 1986 Interview - Patreon Special

Wed, 18 Nov 2020 12:00:33 +0000

A young Douglas Rushkoff sits down with David Lynch weeks after the release of Lynch's Blue Velvet. In a wide-ranging conversation, Lynch discusses what it feels like to, "make it" in the film industry and Lynch's filmmaking process. You can listen to the full conversation by becoming a contributing supporter now: patreon.com/teamhuman

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George Dyson "Nature is on Team Machine

Wed, 11 Nov 2020 12:00:31 +0000

Playing for Team Human today, author and technology historian, George Dyson.

Dyson helps us take a less human-centered perspective on our place in the cosmos for our own - and everything's - best interest.

In his opening monologue, Rushkoff discusses the imperative to not hold grudges after the presidential election and pays tribute to his late friend, Mark Filippi.

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Jessica Gordon Nembhard "Black Ideas Matter"

Wed, 28 Oct 2020 11:00:18 +0000

Playing for Team Human today, Professor of Community Justice and Social Economic Development at Jon Jay College and author of Collective Courage: A History of African American Economic Thought and Practice, Jessica Gordon Nembhard.

Jessica shows us how black communities already developed the circular economic mechanisms that the rest of us need in order to dig out of the repressive weight of exploitation.

In his opening monologue, Rushkoff discusses how the made-for-television format of United States presidential debates does more harm than good for democracy.

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Joanna Harcourt-Smith: Bonus 2009 Interview - Patreon Special

Wed, 21 Oct 2020 11:00:59 +0000

Here’s a sneak peak of a conversation between Joanna Harcourt-Smith and Douglas Rushkoff from 2009. available in-full exclusively to Patreon supporters. Support at Patreon.com/TeamHuman for access to the full interview and all of our bonus content.

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Marina Gorbis "Mutuality"

Wed, 14 Oct 2020 11:00:44 +0000

Playing for Team Human today, Executive Director of Institute for the Future, Marina Gorbis. Gorbis discusses what she believes to be the real solution to our economic and social problems: Mutuality. She explores the psychological effect of how trust in American civic and social institutions has so quickly eroded, why scale is anti-human, and our best chance at making our ideas actionable.

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Grant Morrison "Freaks Like Us"

Wed, 30 Sep 2020 11:00:38 +0000

Playing for Team Human today, storyteller and mage, Grant Morrison.

Morrison discusses the magical power of art and storytelling. How can we transform the physical world through narrative? How does the hero’s journey create narcissistic personalities, and what are alternative models of storytelling? Morrison and Rushkoff weave through magic and metaphors to envision a more distributed world.

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Terence McKenna: Bonus 1993 Interview - Patreon Special

Tue, 29 Sep 2020 11:06:00 +0000

Here's a sneak peak of a conversation between Terence McKenna and Douglas Rushkoff from 1993, available in-full exclusively to Patreon supporters. Support at Patreon.com/TeamHuman for access to the full interview and all of our bonus content.

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Douglas Rushkoff "Find the Others" at Disinfo.Con 1999 - Patreon Special

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 14:46:12 +0000

Douglas Rushkoff delivers the opening talk at Disinfo.Con 1999 - the first and only convention of its kind. Here's a sneak preview of Rushkoff's talk. The full-length audio is available to Team Human's Patreon supporters. Subscribe now to gain full access at https://www.Patreon.com/TeamHuman

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Dríade Aguiar "Culture Makes History"

Wed, 02 Sep 2020 11:00:51 +0000

Playing for Team Human today, co-founder and co-editor of Mídia NINJA, Dríade Aguiar.

Aguiar explains how and why to center the voices of those are are experiencing reality on the ground. She looks at those who make the future and explains how it's accomplished, how we can stop injustices that are happening to real people in real places, and looks at how activist and media efforts can help to address the destruction of the Amazon in an effective way.

In his opening monologue, Rushkoff explains how the left and the right have both untethered themselves from reality in different ways. He shows us how our cybernetic feedback loops have disoriented our sensibilities, and the role that Operation Mindfuck played in our current moment.

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Timothy Leary: Bonus 1993 Interview - Patreon Special

Wed, 26 Aug 2020 17:40:59 +0000

Here's a sneak peak of Timothy Leary and Douglas Rushkoff's archived conversation from 1993, available in-full exclusively to Patreon supporters. Support at Patreon.com/TeamHuman for access to the full interview and all of our bonus content.

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Jim Rutt "An Invitation to Game B"

Wed, 19 Aug 2020 11:00:17 +0000

Playing for Team Human, complexity theorist, host of the Jim Rutt Podcast series, and former chairman the Santa Fe Institute, Jim Rutt.

Rutt shares his idea for a new civilization-era operating system. Why does the the United States' outdated operating system call for a radical change to a more equitable and humane landscape? "If the glue that holds Game A together is competition for status through material possessions and positional goods. The status around GameB will be conviviality." Rutt says.

In his opening monologue, Rushkoff questions whether covid-19 is leading people to embrace and insulate within digital technology, or if it has become the excuse.

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Nora Bateson "The Changemaker's Trap"

Wed, 05 Aug 2020 11:00:41 +0000

Playing for Team Human today, filmmaker, writer, educator, and systems thinker, Nora Bateson.

Bateson and Rushkoff interrogate our moment of global crisis to challenge the very systems that drive human behavior and thought. Further, they explore why quantifying humans as part of a system reduces people to abstract figures rather than the complex beings they truly are. "There's something about this possibility of recognizing living complexity in ourselves and each other that becomes this untold possibility," Bateson says.

In his opening monologue, Rushkoff discusses why Team Human’s greatest strength is not in a specific physical space, but in the form of deeply honest, human engagement.

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Michael Nesmith "Life After Television"

Wed, 22 Jul 2020 11:00:36 +0000

Playing for Team Human today, musician, producer, and inventor of the music video, Michael Nesmith.

Nesmith will be sharing his insights about what it was like to live inside the reality television show that we’re all living in today. Nesmith discusses his self-awareness of existing in a television environment, the influence the Monkees' music had on the Beatles, and the psychic effects the show had on a generation of technology and psychedelic icons.

In his opening monologue, Rushkoff explores the logics behind those who believe Covid-19 will one day disappear. “We need to see the virus as a scientific, biological, and an informational challenge.” Rushkoff says.

Michael Nesmith's autobiography, Life After Television, is available now from Penguin Random House: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/538474/infinite-tuesday-by-michael-nesmith/

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Matt Stoller "Make America Ours Again"

Wed, 08 Jul 2020 11:00:23 +0000

Playing for Team Human today, author of “Goliath: The Hundred Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy,” and Director of Research at the American Economic Liberties Project, Matt Stoller.

Stoller disinters the ground of neoliberalism and looks at how we can reclaim democracy from the market. What are ways for us to make sense of -- and reform -- economic systems that veil themselves as apolitical? Further, Rushkoff and Stoller discuss how neoliberal economic policy influenced both left and right political ideology in the twentieth century, how it contributed to President Obama'a bank bailouts, and explore alternative economic models that prioritize humans over capital.

In his monologue, Rushkoff looks at how black communities have for centuries harbored a spirit of support and mutual aid that the rest of us are discovering only now.

You can subscribe to Stoller’s email newsletter, Big, here: https://mattstoller.substack.com/welcome

You can read the full version of Rushkoff’s monologue “How Centuries of Black Strength Created a Blueprint for Economic Recovery” on Medium’s GEN: https://gen.medium.com/americas-black-communities-created-the-blueprint-for-collective-recovery-e89e792dc124

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Julie Holland, M.D. "Good Chemistry"

Wed, 24 Jun 2020 11:00:51 +0000

Playing for Team Human today, psychiatrist and author of "Good Chemistry: The Science of Connection, from Soul to Psychedelics," Julie Holland, M.D.

Holland explores how people can bring elements of their psychedelic experiences into their everyday lives. She looks at the role compassion plays in the psychedelic experience and how developmental disorders can be aided by these experiences. Further, Rushkoff and Holland look at ways that humans have been polarized into their own personalized silos, and the importance of lifting people out of isolation so they can be more empathetic and better learn about one another.

In his monologue, Rushkoff discusses how Twitter's modus operandi of rigid binaries attempts to simplify a world that can't be deduced beyond its lived experience.

Good Chemistry by Julie Holland, M.D. is now available: http://www.harperwave.com/book/9780062862884/Good-Chemistry-Julie-Holland.

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Richard Metzger "Do They Owe Us A Living?"

Wed, 10 Jun 2020 11:00:40 +0000

Playing for Team Human today, counterculture icon and Editor of Dangerous Minds, Richard Metzger. Metzger envisions what life might look like on the dole and what that means for the future of the counterculture.

Rushkoff and Metzger consider whether the ideals of yesterday’s counterculture were so successful that they’ve become the new over culture? And if so, who are really the new revolutionaries? They also consider the effect Covid-19 will have on a new generation’s financial prospects, and whether the underlying flaws in capitalism will finally be laid bare.

In his monologue, Rushkoff looks at the way our policing problems can only be solved if we fund and utilize other kinds of civil servants instead of just ones with weapons.

Read “Good Cops Don’t Need Grenade Launchers” by Douglas Rushkoff from Medium’s GEN:

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Tyson Yunkaporta "Find the Other Others"

Wed, 27 May 2020 11:00:42 +0000

Playing for Team Human today, senior lecturer in Indigenous Knowledges at Deakin University in Melbourne and author of "Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save The World," Tyson Yunkaporta

Yunkaporta helps us apply an indigenous lens to see our global crises in a more actionable and inclusive way. Where did western culture go wrong? How did the shift from a circular understanding of time to a linear model of time affect human perception of progress? How did indigenous practices of psychedelic drugs lose their meaning without their proper contexts and spiritual guidance?

In his opening monologue, Rushkoff discusses how regenerative thinking and practice can be applied across broad spectrums to help understand how to integrate all parts of life -- from production to externalities -- into our actions and mindsets.

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Martin Winiecki "The Great Unveiling"

Wed, 13 May 2020 11:00:03 +0000

Playing for Team Human today, co-worker at the Tamera Peace Research & Education Center, writer, and activist, Martin Winiecki.

Winiecki discusses the underlying societal causes of Covid-19 and looks at the values people will need to hold in order to heal. He explores the need to transform and integrate the economic, conscious, and erotic structures to help create values like mutual support, solidarity, and trust within a community. Further, he looks at how the technological and economic structures intended to keep us physically distant from one another have been exposed and exacerbated during this crisis.

In his monologue, Rushkoff discusses how mass coherence is Team Human's secret weapon against craziness and corruption in government.

Read “Searching for the Anti-Virus | Covid-19 s Quantum Phenomenon” from Kosmos Journal: https://www.kosmosjournal.org/kj_article/searching-for-the-anti-virus-covid-19-as-quantum-phenomenon/

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Jared Diamond "Robots in the Outfield"

Thu, 07 May 2020 11:00:48 +0000

Playing for Team Human today, national baseball writer for the Wall Street Journal and author of "Swing Kings" Jared Diamond

Diamond discusses how technological advancements have changed the fun and quirky ways that baseball organizations construct their teams and play the game. Why are baseball players changing their swings in order to hit more home runs? What is behind baseball’s desire to compete for the same college graduates who want to work for Amazon, Google, and major tech companies? Is there room for humans in modern baseball?

In his opening monologue, Rushkoff discusses the impact Covid-19 is having on art and music.

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Swing Kings is now available: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780062872104

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Priscillia Ludosky "Occupying Reality"

Wed, 29 Apr 2020 11:00:19 +0000

Playing for Team Human today, activist and a Founder of the Yellow Vest Movement, Priscillia Ludosky

Ludosky will be showing us how a movement uniting the agendas of the people transcends the sensibilities of both the left and the right. How can solidarity serve as the ground for sustainable social change? How can an environmental movement weigh the concerns of the environment with the economic needs of the working class? How did the Yellow Vest Movement plan and organize their actions?

On Real People Doing Real Things, Timothy "Paule" Jackson, Executive Director and Co-Founder of Detroit Hives, discusses how he’s creating an inner-city bee farm that is inclusive for the community and the pollinators.

You can learn more about Jackson's work at Detroit Hives by clicking here: http://detroithives.org/

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Brian Hughes "The Undercurrent of Extremism"

Wed, 22 Apr 2020 11:00:00 +0000

Playing for Team Human today, Graduate Assistant at the Polarization Extremism and Radical Innovation Lab at American University, Brian Hughes.

Hughes shares with us the underlying drive fueling so much of today’s more violent extremism along with how we can mitigate some of its impact. How can we reconcile issues of identity that are tied to structural conditions of racism and sexism? How do we achieve solidarity?

In his opening monologue, Rushkoff discusses how Covid-19 is a kamikaze attack of human biology against systems that threaten our very survival.

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Reverend Billy and Savitri D "Charging the Wildness"

Wed, 15 Apr 2020 11:00:57 +0000

Playing for Team Human today, artists, activists, and writers Reverend Billy and Savitri D.

Reverend Billy and Savitri D discuss the origins of the Church of Stop Shopping and the desire to create a tradition of a post-religious American future. Reverend Billy and Savitri walk us through the evolution of the Church of Stop Shopping as a satire into a group that addresses the challenges and needs of their local community. “You have to change the theme of your work because something is happening to the people in your community.” Savitri D says.

Rushkoff, Reverend Billy, and Savitri D. examine the current moment and ask, “Who are the current experts that people can turn to in a pandemic?” along with strategies for people to help build resilience. “Rebuilding our memories is a project people need to embark upon.” Reverend Billy says.

In his monologue, Rushkoff discusses how the ethical dimensions and risks associated with people who have recovered from Covid-19 being able to return to the workforce versus those who are not able to.

Learn more about Reverend Billy & The Stop Shopping Choir: http://www.revbilly.com/

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James Howard Kunstler "The Long Emergency"

Wed, 01 Apr 2020 11:00:00 +0000

Playing for Team Human today, author, social critic, and public speaker James Howard Kunstler.

Kunstler discusses how the current pandemic is just the beginning of a process he calls ‘The Long Emergency.” “When the dust settles, we’re tasked with reorganizing our lives.” he says.

Further, Kuntsler discusses the implications of a debt-based economy when debt can’t be paid and money ceases to represent anything. “When capital doesn’t function, it stops being money.”

Kunstler looks at how humans might reorient themselves after the pandemic. How might humans connect to the world? What will the re-enchantment of the human experience and human life look like?

In his monologue, Rushkoff looks at how the Trump administration views the economic shutdown as an equal or greater danger to the pandemic because of what it might allow humans to realize: That humans work for the economy instead of our economy working for us.

Read the written version of Rushkoff’s version “We Wish to Inform You That Your Death is Highly Profitable” from Medium’s GEN: https://gen.medium.com/we-wish-to-inform-you-that-your-death-is-highly-profitable-22c73744055c

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Helena Norberg-Hodge “Everything Works Better Locally”

Wed, 18 Mar 2020 14:41:10 +0000

Playing for Team Human today, author, filmmaker, and founder & director of Local Futures, Helena Norberg-Hodge.

Norberg-Hodge joins Team Human to discuss how globalisation doesn't make things more efficient, and how localism can work to serve real people and real places.

In his opening monologue, Rushkoff remembers his friend, the late Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (1950-2020), and reflects on the way television media is warping our perception of the current coronavirus crisis.

Read Rushkoff on Genesis Breyer P-Orridge from BoingBoing: https://boingboing.net/2020/03/14/douglas-rushkoff-on-genesis-br.html

Learn more about Local Futures: https://www.localfutures.org/

Local is our Future: Steps to an Economics of Happiness: https://www.localfutures.org/publications/local-is-our-future-book-helena-norberg-hodge/

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Mark Stahlman "Get Digital, Go Medieval"

Wed, 04 Mar 2020 12:45:11 +0000

Playing for Team Human today, founder of the Center for the Study of Digital Life, Mark Stahlman.

Stahlman joins Team Human to discuss how artificial intelligence has become the new ground for human interaction, and why navigating it will require us to retrieve our uniquely human senses. "We will only become fully human if we learn to take responsibility for our actions." Stahlman says. Further, he discusses the shift from a television environment to a digital environment and what that means for our collective sensibilities.

In his opening monologue. Rushkoff discusses Super Tuesday results and looks at the figure and ground of the presidential race and what we can do in our local communities to create change.

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Steven Hassan "Re-establishing Contact"

Wed, 19 Feb 2020 12:00:48 +0000

Playing for Team Human today, mental health counselor and author of "Cult of Trump: A Leading Cult Expert Explains How the President Uses Mind Control" Steven Hassan.

Hassan joins Team Human to discuss how today's political movements constitute cults, his experience being recruited by the Moonies while in college, and why mass civic education about the psychology of influence is important to protect ourselves from indoctrination both domestic and international.

In his monologue, Rushkoff discusses the recent infusion of technology in theatrical productions and why it distorts one of theatre's original purposes of real human bodies in physical space. "There are still a few of these precious remaining values and modalities where the human form is celebrated." He says of the theatre.

Learn more about Hassan's work: https://freedomofmind.com/

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Allison Fine "Things Worth Fighting For"

Wed, 05 Feb 2020 12:00:15 +0000

Playing for Team Human today, author, social change thought leader, nonprofit founder, and congressional candidate for New York's 17th district, Allison Fine.

Fine joins Team Human to discuss her platform and decision to run for congress. "We are so broken right now that I actually want to go into the belly of the beast to get us to the next chapter. I think it's important for us to pay attention to what's going on now, but not to get stuck in what's going on now." Fine and Rushkoff discuss the imperative for the United States to shift to a green economy, the existential threat of automation on labor, breaking down barriers for women's success, and empowering people with a mobile economy that optimizes for velocity.

In his monologue, Rushkoff looks at how Twitter provides Russia with memetic ammunition to launch propaganda campaigns against the United States.

Learn more about Allison's campaign here: https://www.allisonfine2020.com/

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James Lovelock "We Humans are a Good Thing"

Wed, 22 Jan 2020 13:00:56 +0000

Playing for Team Human today, author, centenarian, environmentalist, futurist, and scientist, James Lovelock.

Lovelock joins Team Human to discuss his new book, "Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence" which envisions a future where artificial intelligence and humans together will help the earth survive. On this episode, Lovelock and Rushkoff discuss the origins of the Gaia Hypothesis, the ways in which human beings can work to stop climate change, and the delicate nature of life on earth. In addition, Lovelock discusses the possibility of humans being alone in the universe and the likelihood that life developed on earth at all.

In his monologue, Rushkoff asks whether Team Human has become too radical.

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Lauren Duca “Inheriting the Future” + Christopher Bouzy “Human Trollbots”

Wed, 08 Jan 2020 11:59:39 +0000

Playing for Team Human today activist, author and journalist Lauren Duca.

Lauren joins Team Human to discuss her new book, "How to Start a Revolution: Young People and the Future of American Politics" which explores the new forms of political engagement being pioneered by the next generation. On this episode, Duca shared her thoughts on how a generational shift from political alienation to political participation has been triggered by the election of Trump and the imminent climate crisis. In addition, Duca and Rushkoff uncover the positive lessons that can be learned from her viral Team Vogue article ‘Donald Trump is Gaslighting America,’ her appearance on Fox News with Tucer Carlson, and the controversy surrounding her brief experience teaching at NYU.

Find out more about Lauren Duca: http://www.laurenduca.com

On this episode we’re also joined by Bot Sentinel founder Christopher Bouzy for our ‘Real People, Doing Real Things’ segment. He joins Team Human to share how he is enabling the public to be more aware of the online origins of disinformation.

You can find out more about Christopher Bouzy’s work here: https://botsentinel.com

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You can read written versions of Douglas Rushkoff’s show monologues at Medium: https://medium.com/@rushkoff

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Paul Krassner "When Fake Was Fun"

Mon, 23 Dec 2019 11:59:55 +0000

Playing for Team Human today radical activist, counter-cultural icon, and founder of The Realist magazine, Paul Krassner (1932-2019).

Krassner and Rushkoff explore how the combination of fabricated news, scandals and outrage - otherwise known as mind fucking - were once the tools employed by anarchic activists. They discuss how a one-time violin prodigy became the pioneer of the US underground press, and how being an optimist might be our best defence against the challenging times we face.

In his opening monologue, Rushkoff shares how we might make the internet a more human-friendly domain through a simple response to the net’s original sin: algorithmic customization.

Find out more about Paul Krassner: http://paulkrassner.com

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Eric Gullichsen "Navigating A Shared Space"

Wed, 11 Dec 2019 12:00:55 +0000

Playing for Team Human today, founder and principal investigator at Pataphysics Research & virtual reality pioneer, Eric Gullichsen.

Gullichsen and Rushkoff look back at how early virtual reality headsets brought them together nearly 25 years ago. Together, they discuss Timothy Leary's commentary and influence on Gullichsen's work in virtual reality and how Leary still influences Guillichsen's work today with Transcranial Ultrasound Neuromodulation. Here, Gullichsen explains his views on treatments created from organic sources versus synthetic ones and how new brain treatments can be administered in a non-invasive fashion. How can innovations serve our humanity instead of serving it up to Silicon Valley?

In his opening monologue, Rushkoff discusses how popular public discourse about the Internet is ten-to-twenty years behind what's happening today. He looks at how digital technology has created an environment that has stripped us of our ability to find common ground because we're increasingly living in different worlds.

If you’re not a Patreon supporter, you can purchase tickets here: http://www.revbilly.com/earth_riot_at_joe_s_pub_at_the_public_20191215

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Yancey Strickler "A More Generous World"

Wed, 27 Nov 2019 12:00:15 +0000

Playing for Team Human today, Cofounder of Kickstarter & The Creative Independent and author of the newly published book, “This Could Be Our Future: A Manifesto for a More Generous World,” Yancey Strickler.

Strickler joins Team Human to discuss his vision for building a society that looks beyond money and toward optimizing for humans. What are ways we can protect our human weaknesses? How can we appropriately scale a business to fit the needs of humans instead of growth for growth's sake? Further, he discusses his concept of Bentoism, a model created based on the belief, "...that our self-interest isn’t solely defined by what we want and need right now. Our self-interest extends to the considerations of our future selves, the people who rely on us, and the next generation." He discusses how this model can help humans discover what it's like to be self-coherent and situate themselves as both individuals and as a collective.

"This Could Be Out Future: A Manifesto for a More Generous World" is now available: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/591594/this-could-be-our-future-by-yancey-strickler/

Learn more about Bentoism: http://bentoism.org/

Team Human Podcast supporters can get sainted at Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping’s Earth Riot on Sunday, December 15, at 2:00 PM at Joe’s Pub at The Public. If you’re a Patreon supporter and you’d like to attend, please email team@teamhuman.fm for tickets. If you’re not a Patreon supporter, you can purchase tickets here: http://www.revbilly.com/earth_riot_at_joe_s_pub_at_the_public_20191215

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Deborah Cullinan "From the Community"

Wed, 13 Nov 2019 12:39:51 +0000

Playing for Team Human today, CEO of Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, co-founder of Culture Bank, and Innovator in Residence at the Kauffman Foundation, Deborah Cullinan. Also playing for Team Human this week, New York State Assemblyman Ron Kim and Cornell Law Professor Robert Hockett. Plus, hear from Reverend Billy, who explains how Team Human supporters can be sainted at Earth Riot on Sunday, December 15.

Cullinan joins Team Human to discuss what it means to place artists and creativity at the center of thriving communities, ways to think about art as an important driver to lasting change, and how difficult it is to imagine a brighter future when our current basic needs are not met. "We need to think of art and creativity as part of a system."

New York State Assemblyman Ron Kim and Cornell Law Professor Robert Hockett discuss their proposal to create a new public money infrastructure that lifts up the caring economy, a "public Venmo" They speak about the importance of accessible and free infrastructure to exchange money, how money can work to capture people's values on a local level that currently go neglected, and how a banking system that serves humans might operate.

Team Human Podcast supporters can get sainted at Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping's Earth Riot on Sunday, December 15, at 2:00 PM at Joe's Pub at The Public. If you're a Patreon supporter and you'd like to attend, please email team@teamhuman.fm for tickets. If you're not a Patreon supporter, you can purchase tickets here: http://www.revbilly.com/earth_riot_at_joe_s_pub_at_the_public_20191215

Learn more about Yerba Buena Center for the Arts: https://ybca.org/

Read more about Assemblyman Kim and Professor Hockett's plan: https://prospect.org/economy/dynamic-inclusive-money-economy/

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Vinnie Colaiuta "Rhythm is Life"

Wed, 30 Oct 2019 11:34:00 +0000

Playing for Team Human today, drummer and session musician, Vinnie Colaiuta.

Vinnie joins Team Human to discuss the art of listening, collaborating, and celebrating the imperfection that makes music a human art. Douglas and Vinnie explore the difference between making music together, the biases of music-production technology, what Vinnie has learned from working artists like Frank Zappa, the importance of flow-state, and what it is like to be one of the most in-demand studio musicians.

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Vinnie Colaiuta is an award-winning drummer based in Los Angeles. He famously worked for Frank Zappa as his principal drummer for studio and live performances. His performances on Zappa's albums Tinsel Town Rebellion, Joe's Garage and Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar are considered by many drummers to be among the most astounding ever recorded. Joe's Garage was named one of the top-25 drumming performances of all time in a 1993 Modern Drummer article.

After leaving Zappa, Colaiuta went on to work with a long list of notable rock and pop artists, including Sting, Gino Vannelli, Joni Mitchell, Barbra Streisand, Sandy & Junior, Clannad, Wang Chung, Chaka Khan, and Jeff Beck. He has also appeared with many notable jazz musicians, including Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Jimmy Haslip, Quincy Jones, the Buddy Rich Big Band and Buell Neidlinger.

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Find out more about Vinnie’s work at: https://breakfastwithvinnie.com/

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