From Douglas’ Website:
Named one of the “world’s ten most influential intellectuals” by MIT, Douglas Rushkoff is an author and documentarian who studies human autonomy in a digital age. His twenty books include the just-published Team Human, based on his podcast, as well as the bestsellers Present Shock, Throwing Rocks and the Google Bus, Program or Be Programmed, Life Inc, and Media Virus. He also made the PBS Frontline documentaries Generation Like, The Persuaders, and Merchants of Cool. His book Coercion won the Marshall McLuhan Award, and the Media Ecology Association honored him with the first Neil Postman Award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity.
Rushkoff’s work explores how different technological environments change our relationship to narrative, money, power, and one another. He coined such concepts as “viral media,” “screenagers,” and “social currency,” and has been a leading voice for applying digital media toward social and economic justice.
He a research fellow of the Institute for the Future, and founder of the Laboratory for Digital Humanism at CUNY/Queens, where he is a Professor of Media Theory and Digital Economics. He is a columnist for Medium, and his novels and comics, Ecstasy Club, A.D.D, and Aleister & Adolf, are all being developed for the screen.
From Wikipedia:
Douglas is also known for his advocacy of open source solutions to social problems.
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Team Human is a manifesto―a fiery distillation of preeminent digital theorist Douglas Rushkoff’s most urgent thoughts on civilization and human nature. In one hundred lean and incisive statements, he argues that we are essentially social creatures and that we achieve our greatest aspirations when we work together―not as individuals. Yet today society is threatened by a vast antihuman infrastructure that undermines our ability to connect. Money, once a means of exchange, is now a means of exploitation; education, conceived as a way to elevate the working class, has become another assembly line; and the internet has only further divided us into increasingly atomized and radicalized groups.
Team Human delivers a call to arms. If we are to resist and survive these destructive forces, we must recognize that being human is a team sport. In Rushkoff’s own words: “Being social may be the whole point.” Harnessing wide-ranging research on human evolution, biology, and psychology, Rushkoff shows that when we work together we realize greater happiness, productivity, and peace. If we can find the others who understand this fundamental truth and reassert our humanity―together―we can make the world a better place to be human.
The debate over whether the Net is good or bad for us fills the airwaves and the blogosphere. But for all the heat of claim and counter-claim, the argument is essentially beside the point: It’s here; it’s everywhere. The real question is, do we direct technology, or do we let ourselves be directed by it and those who have mastered it? “Choose the former,” writes Rushkoff, “and you gain access to the control panel of civilization. Choose the latter, and it could be the last real choice you get to make.”
In ten chapters, composed of ten “commands” accompanied by original illustrations from comic artist Leland Purvis, in Program or Be Programmed, Rushkoff provides cyber enthusiasts and technophobes alike with the guidelines to navigate this new universe.
In this spirited, accessible poetics of new media, Rushkoff picks up where Marshall McLuhan left off, helping readers come to recognize programming as the new literacy of the digital age––and as a template through which to see beyond social conventions and power structures that have vexed us for centuries. This is a friendly little book with a big and actionable message.
People spent the twentieth century obsessed with the future. We created technologies that would help connect us faster, gather news, map the planet, and compile knowledge. We strove for an instantaneous network where time and space could be compressed. Well, the future’s arrived. We live in a continuous now enabled by Twitter, email, and a so-called real-time technological shift. Yet this “now” is an elusive goal that we can never quite reach. And the dissonance between our digital selves and our analog bodies has thrown us into a new state of anxiety: present shock.
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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. Stream, support, and subscribe 🎶Philip Rosedale | Team Humanwww.teamhuman.fmEp. 213 Founder of Second Life and High Fidelity
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How can preparing for the worst give us the resilience we need to avoid apocalypse altogether? Founder of The Creative Arts Recruitment Squad and The Post Apocalypse School of Teesside Lisa Lovebucket shares her story on a new episode of Team Human. In his monologue, Rushkoff asks us not to abandon people in red states. Stream, support, and subscribe:Lisa Lovebucket
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🌳 How can we recognize and restore the nature in our technology? Author of Technobiophilia: Nature and Cyberculture and Nature and Wellbeing in a Digital Age Sue Thomas joins Rushkoff on a new episode of Team Human. 🎶 Stream, support, and subscribe: Sue Thomas | Team Humanwww.teamhuman.fmEp. 209 Author of Technobiophilia: Nature and Cyberspace Sue Thomas helps us recognize and
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The dismay and despair you are feeling has one surefire cure: solidarity. Find other people, particularly those in need or related to those in need, and support them as best you can. Let them know you are bearing witness to what they’re going through. Meet and strategize with your own friends and allies. There’s no one solution to any of
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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. Stream, support, and subscribe
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“I’ve made no secret of my skepticism about the blockchain as a solution for our economic woes. Yes, the economy is tilted, corrupt, and easily gamed — but the solution is likely social, not technological. While national, debt-based central currencies create terrible incentives, abstractions, and growth mandates, moving our transactions to a decentralized ledger maintained by wealthy hackers may not
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“A new world of NFT-based media may liberate us all to watch just the things we want. No more Netflix or Amazon subscription; I just buy my NFT version of a show via blockchain, straight from the creator. But it’s going to make for an almost unfathomably vast, unnavigable sea of individual offerings. It’s hard enough to find things now.
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Playing for Team Human today, Author of Your Money or Your Life and Blessing the Hands That Feed Us Vicki Robin Robin explains what it means to be a town cryer – and how to maintain our friendships and civil interdependence. Stream, support, and subscribe now 🎶 Vicki Robin | Team Humanwww.teamhuman.fmEp. 202 Author of Your Money or Your Life
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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. Stream, support, and subscribe now 🎶 Team Human Ep. 199: Jamie Cohen,
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Playing for Team Human today, 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.
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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. Stream, support, and subscribe
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Author and writer David Zweig helps us parse the well-meaning but sometimes inaccurate communication from our health officials about Covid-19. 🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff remembers his late accountant, Sheldon Gordon, and how we can morally blend together our economic and social lives. Stream, support, and subscribe 🎶 David Zweig | Team Humanwww.teamhuman.fmEp. 196 Author and writer David Zweig helps
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RUSirius is back, at 70! Mondo Vanilli with Blag Dahlia (of The Dwarves) has recorded “I’m Against NFTs” https://rusirius.bandcamp.com/track/im-against-nfts-mondo-vanilli-with-blag-dahlia Available for free only during R.U. Sirius 70th birthday week from Wednesday August 10 — Sunday morning August 14.
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I sure hope I tweeted about my conversation last week with @elianeubalijoro and @davidejensen about how to leverage a bit of top-down support for bottom-up sustainability. https://www.teamhuman.fm/episodes/david-jensen-eliane-ubalijoro
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The radically human @ConnerHabib on @teamhumanshow this week, talking about the particular horror movie of going to public school in America (at least for some), as well as the love and solidarity we can find afterwards. https://www.teamhuman.fm/episodes/216-conner-habib
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Solarpunk fiction is the best antidote to apocalyptic thinking. Next on my stack: SolarPunk Detective Episode One. https://www.solarpunkstories.com/buy-our-1st-story
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My friend and conversational jazz partner @PhilipRosedale, founder of Second Life and High Fidelity Labs, discusses the misguided efforts fueling Web3 and helps us retrieve the original mission for immersive social platforms. On the new @TeamHumanShow https://www.teamhuman.fm/episodes/philip-rosedale
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Lisa Lovebucket of the Post Apocalypse School of Teesside, on the new @TeamHumanShow. Inspiring new way of understanding “prep school!” Preparing for the worst may help us avoid apocalypse altogether… https://www.teamhuman.fm/episodes/lisa-lovebucket
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Lifelong @mets fan sad that baseball game can only be watched with a Peacock subscription. Paying for cable & MLB all access ain’t enough. So much for America’s game in a libertarian country. It was the last easy topic I had in common with many fellow Americans.
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RT @buildresilience: To close out the season, @vicki_robin welcomes back fellow podcast host and good friend, @rushkoff. Their casual chat covers an array of topics, from truth-telling to social capital, and Douglas exposes the “false premise of winning at capitalism.” https://www.resilience.org/stories/2022-06-20/what-could-possibly-go-right-episode-84-doughlas-rushkoff/
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Finally! My conversation with the great @nickkroll is up on the @teamhumanshow “You know when a body dies and it lets out one last fart? I thought that’s what Trump was for older white men…It turned out to be more of a shart.” https://www.teamhuman.fm/episodes/nick-kroll
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Join me and other longtime friends and collaborators of Genesis and Lady Jaye Breyer P-Orridge, in a discussion that unpacks the artists’ Pandrogyne project. Brooklyn July 10. https://pioneerworks.org/programs/breyer-p-orridge-we-are-but-one-panel-discussion
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RT @teamhumanshow: 🌐 What are the origins of Cyberia? @rushkoff takes a closer look at the early internet and how digital technology disrupts legacy media in a bonus 1994 interview. 🎶 Listen to a preview: https://play.acast.com/s/58ad887a1608b1752663b04a/629fc9da8267a20012e724ac
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I’m happy for technology to be more “humane,” but not if that means disguising entirely inhumane algorithmic manipulation in more pleasant forms. https://medium.com/@rushkoff/dont-hide-the-tech-55270ec29f68
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We just licensed the audio rights to my upcoming book Survival of the Richest to the wonderful RecordedBooks. And thankfully, they’re having me read. Can’t wait to ‘perform’ this one; it’s got some arch storytelling. https://wwnorton.com/books/survival-of-the-richest/about-the-book/description
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Without acknowledgment of the social and technological construction that comprises movies, the Oscars become reality TV. The actors aren’t playing characters, the *are* the characters on ‘reality’ TV. They get as violent as Mob Wives. Media for fascism. https://link.medium.com/40uVWXSqDqb
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RT @Jon_Gluck: .@rushkoff: “I’m happy for technology to be more ‘humane,’ but not if that means disguising entirely inhumane algorithmic manipulation in more pleasant forms.” https://rushkoff.medium.com/dont-hide-the-tech-55270ec29f68
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There are many of us waking up to the ways networking has been redefined by those who want us to purchase our knowledge and experiences rather than simply share them. We are not the users of their network. We are the network. https://medium.com/one-zero/the-internet-is-us-bea56ae39443
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We adults may have lost the ability to tell our kids that our adult lives are better than their tortured adolescence. But by respecting the example they are setting, we can strive to be more like them, ourselves. https://medium.com/@rushkoff/it-doesnt-get-better-156f3ed184a2
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Can we consider technology a form of nature? Should we? Sue Thomas on “Technobiophilia” on the new @TeamHumanShow https://www.teamhuman.fm/episodes/sue-thomas
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I just saw that I’m in this DW documentary about “Burnout.” I learned something, even from myself. Weird how that happens. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q98aCklzCBE
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The coming crypto crash may take down more than the tokens, but this is actually good for the blockchain. https://medium.com/@rushkoff/what-your-assets-at-coinbase-are-not-safe-3ad20708a888
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RT @teamhumanshow: 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 September 6, 2022. https://www.teamhuman.fm/episodes/special-announcement-survival-of-the-richest
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RT @rushkoff: It’s time to restore the set and setting around psychedelics before they become yet another tool for domination and control. What happened to the net could happen these powerful technologies, as well. New @TeamHumanShow with the founders of @psymposia https://www.teamhuman.fm/episodes/david-nickles-nese-devenot
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RT @rushkoff: My new book Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires, is available for pre-order! We always knew but now we *know*. The tech elite mean to leave us all behind. Here’s a thread about the Silicon Valley mindset the book explores. https://wwnorton.com/books/survival-of-the-richest
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My new book Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires, is available for pre-order! We always knew but now we *know*. The tech elite mean to leave us all behind. Here’s a thread about the Silicon Valley mindset the book explores. https://wwnorton.com/books/survival-of-the-richest
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