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Douglas Rushkoff
Douglas Rushkoff
Media Theorist | Author | Host of Team Human | Professor of Media Theory and Activism
Media Theorist | Author | Host of Team Human | Professor of Media Theory and Activism
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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.


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Douglas is also known for his advocacy of open source solutions to social problems.

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Last 50 posts on own channels (YouTube, Podcast, Medium or Website/Blog):

Demigod Wannabes
Published on: 29 Nov 23 in Douglas Rushkoff – Podcast by Douglas Rushkoff

Kibbitz Room XII
Published on: 22 Nov 23 in Douglas Rushkoff – Podcast by Douglas Rushkoff

Jem Bendell
Published on: 15 Nov 23 in Douglas Rushkoff – Podcast by Douglas Rushkoff

Nora Bateson
Published on: 8 Nov 23 in Douglas Rushkoff – Podcast by Douglas Rushkoff

Mitch Horowitz – Team Human Live in NYC
Published on: 1 Nov 23 in Douglas Rushkoff – Podcast by Douglas Rushkoff

Leaving X and Social Media Behind
Published on: 25 Oct 23 in Douglas Rushkoff – Podcast by Douglas Rushkoff

Rushkoff on TIME’s Person of the Week
Published on: 21 Oct 23 in Douglas Rushkoff – Podcast by Douglas Rushkoff

Andrea Chalupa
Published on: 18 Oct 23 in Douglas Rushkoff – Podcast by Douglas Rushkoff

A Message from Douglas
Published on: 11 Oct 23 in Douglas Rushkoff – Podcast by Douglas Rushkoff

Dennis Yi Tenen
Published on: 4 Oct 23 in Douglas Rushkoff – Podcast by Douglas Rushkoff

Maggie Jackson
Published on: 28 Sep 23 in Douglas Rushkoff – Podcast by Douglas Rushkoff

Kibbitz Room XI
Published on: 20 Sep 23 in Douglas Rushkoff – Podcast by Douglas Rushkoff

Kevin Slavin
Published on: 13 Sep 23 in Douglas Rushkoff – Podcast by Douglas Rushkoff

Naomi Klein
Published on: 6 Sep 23 in Douglas Rushkoff – Podcast by Douglas Rushkoff

Madeline Ashby
Published on: 30 Aug 23 in Douglas Rushkoff – Podcast by Douglas Rushkoff

Paul Austin
Published on: 23 Aug 23 in Douglas Rushkoff – Podcast by Douglas Rushkoff

Kibbitz Room X
Published on: 16 Aug 23 in Douglas Rushkoff – Podcast by Douglas Rushkoff

Émile P. Torres
Published on: 9 Aug 23 in Douglas Rushkoff – Podcast by Douglas Rushkoff

David Brin
Published on: 2 Aug 23 in Douglas Rushkoff – Podcast by Douglas Rushkoff

The Life and Thought Crimes of Robert Anton Wilson w/ Gabriel Kennedy
Published on: 26 Jul 23 in Douglas Rushkoff – Podcast by Douglas Rushkoff

Rushkoff on TrueAnon: Bloodless Hype Machines
Published on: 24 Jul 23 in Douglas Rushkoff – Podcast by Douglas Rushkoff

Kibbitz Room VIIII live from the Team Human Apocalypse Bunker
Published on: 19 Jul 23 in Douglas Rushkoff – Podcast by Douglas Rushkoff

Nika Roza Danilova
Published on: 12 Jul 23 in Douglas Rushkoff – Podcast by Douglas Rushkoff

Annie Kelly
Published on: 5 Jul 23 in Douglas Rushkoff – Podcast by Douglas Rushkoff

Thomas Negovan
Published on: 28 Jun 23 in Douglas Rushkoff – Podcast by Douglas Rushkoff

Kibbitz Room VIII live from the Team Human Apocalypse Bunker
Published on: 22 Jun 23 in Douglas Rushkoff – Podcast by Douglas Rushkoff

Gary Marcus
Published on: 14 Jun 23 in Douglas Rushkoff – Podcast by Douglas Rushkoff

Douglas Rushkoff: I Will Not Be Autotuned – Live from All Tech is Human’s Responsible Tech Mixer
Published on: 7 Jun 23 in Douglas Rushkoff – Podcast by Douglas Rushkoff

Malcolm Harris
Published on: 2 Jun 23 in Douglas Rushkoff – Podcast by Douglas Rushkoff

Fenton Bailey
Published on: 16 May 23 in Douglas Rushkoff – Podcast by Douglas Rushkoff

Kibbitz Room VII live from the Team Human Apocalypse Bunker
Published on: 8 May 23 in Douglas Rushkoff – Podcast by Douglas Rushkoff

Rex Weyler
Published on: 24 Apr 23 in Douglas Rushkoff – Podcast by Douglas Rushkoff

Claire Leibowicz, Justin Hendrix, John Borthwick, and Douglas Rushkoff – live at Betaworks
Published on: 14 Apr 23 in Douglas Rushkoff – Podcast by Douglas Rushkoff

Marina Gorbis & Jerry Davis
Published on: 30 Mar 23 in Douglas Rushkoff – Podcast by Douglas Rushkoff

Alissa Quart
Published on: 20 Mar 23 in Douglas Rushkoff – Podcast by Douglas Rushkoff

Kibbitz Room V live from the Team Human Apocalypse Bunker
Published on: 7 Mar 23 in Douglas Rushkoff – Podcast by Douglas Rushkoff

Alex Holland
Published on: 23 Feb 23 in Douglas Rushkoff – Podcast by Douglas Rushkoff

Jeff Emmett
Published on: 15 Feb 23 in Douglas Rushkoff – Podcast by Douglas Rushkoff

Micah Sifry
Published on: 10 Feb 23 in Douglas Rushkoff – Podcast by Douglas Rushkoff

Kibbitz Room V live from the Team Human Apocalypse Bunker
Published on: 26 Jan 23 in Douglas Rushkoff – Podcast by Douglas Rushkoff

Jessamyn West
Published on: 11 Jan 23 in Douglas Rushkoff – Podcast by Douglas Rushkoff

Mitch Horowitz
Published on: 4 Jan 23 in Douglas Rushkoff – Podcast by Douglas Rushkoff

Infectious Altruism – Holiday Special
Published on: 24 Dec 22 in Douglas Rushkoff – Podcast by Douglas Rushkoff

Kibbitz Room IV live from the Team Human Apocalypse Bunker
Published on: 21 Dec 22 in Douglas Rushkoff – Podcast by Douglas Rushkoff

Molly White
Published on: 14 Dec 22 in Douglas Rushkoff – Podcast by Douglas Rushkoff

Eric Zimmerman
Published on: 1 Dec 22 in Douglas Rushkoff – Podcast by Douglas Rushkoff

Noah Hutton
Published on: 23 Nov 22 in Douglas Rushkoff – Podcast by Douglas Rushkoff

Cory Doctorow
Published on: 16 Nov 22 in Douglas Rushkoff – Podcast by Douglas Rushkoff

Surviving Apocalyptic Economics w/ Cory Doctorow and Rebecca Giblin – Live from Ottawa International Writers Festival
Published on: 9 Nov 22 in Douglas Rushkoff – Podcast by Douglas Rushkoff

Greg Barris
Published on: 3 Nov 22 in Douglas Rushkoff – Podcast by Douglas Rushkoff

Team Human
Team Human
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A manifesto on civilization and human nature
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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.

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Ten Commands for a Digital Age
"A deceptively simple but very important book" | "Everyone should read this"
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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.

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When Everything Happens Now
"..refreshing antidote to promises of digital Utopia.." | "..brilliant insight.. "
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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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Recent Videos and Podcasts where Douglas Rushkoff has been interviewed

Jim talks with Douglas Rushkoff about the ideas in his essay series, “What’s a Meta For?” They discuss Facebook’s renaming to Meta, the semantic web, ChatGPT, a Turing test recalibration period, Rocco’s …Read more
Jim talks with Douglas Rushkoff about where the internet came from, where it might go, & how to move from dystopian despair to productive engagement. Loosely following the syllabus for (Re-)Designing …Read more
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. …Read more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ryB_gjz0us The post SXSW 2023: The End of the Billionaire Mindset: A Celebration with Douglas Rushkoff appeared first on Rushkoff. …Read more
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/may/28/artificial-intelligence-doug-rushkoff-tech-billionaires-escape-mode The post The Guardian: Douglas Rushkoff on why tech billionaires are in escape mode appeared first on Rushkoff. …Read more
https://www.wired.com/story/doug-rushkoff-survival-of-the-richest/ The post Wired: Doug Rushkoff is Ready to Renounce the Digital Revolution appeared first on Rushkoff. …Read more
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 …Read more
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/09/02/opinion/escape-plans-rich-famous/ The post Escape plans of the rich and famous appeared first on Rushkoff. …Read more
https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7g3jv/escape-fantasies-of-the-tech-billionaires The post Cyber: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires appeared first on Rushkoff. …Read more
The post Survival of the Richest appeared first on Rushkoff. …Read more
https://www.duncantrussell.com/episodes/2022/9/7/douglas-rushkoff The post Duncan Trussell Family Hour Ep. 522: Douglas Rushkoff appeared first on Rushkoff. …Read more
https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2022/09/06/survival-of-the-richest The post In ‘Survival of the Richest,’ author Douglas Rushkoff examines the escape plans of the tech elite appeared first on Rushkoff. …Read more
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, …Read more
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 …Read more
I overhead a couple of high school students this morning talking about their college options. “I don’t think I’m going to apply to Grinnel, anymore,” one said. “Or Rice,” the …Read more
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 …Read more
One of the most common questions I’ve been getting this week is from young investors (they wouldn’t call themselves investors, but they are) wondering why their crypto holdings are going …Read more
Yes, gas prices are up. I saw a woman fill up her old station wagon with premium the other day, and her pump total went over $90. “Ouch!” I said …Read more
I don’t like nice interfaces. I never have. I always found technologies easier to use when they don’t try to humanize themselves for me. Worse, when they do try to …Read more
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, …Read more
I found myself actually bothered by Elon Musk’s tweets today. For the most part, I’ve ignored him the same way I ignore most of what happens on that platform. I …Read more
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 …Read more
https://wwnorton.com/books/survival-of-the-richest/about-the-book/description The post Survival of the Richest appeared first on Rushkoff. …Read more
We always knew but now we know. The tech elite mean to leave us all behind. I learned this when I traveled to a remote resort to deliver was supposed to …Read more
Sometimes it’s hard to write into the news cycle. I don’t like to write hot takes on things, no matter how closely related they may be to my areas of …Read more
Postdoctoral Associate at the Institute for Research in Sensing (IRiS) at the University of Cincinnati Neşe Devenot and Managing Editor of Psymposia David Nickles help us evaluate the current psychedelic …Read more
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 …Read more
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.🌍 You …Read more
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 …Read more
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 …Read more
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 …Read more
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 …Read more
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 …Read more
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 ChalupaAndrea Chalupa …Read more
In a pause from our normal weekly release, Rushkoff reminds us not to dehumanize each other. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. …Read more
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 …Read more
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 …Read more
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.🎟️ Team …Read more
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 …Read more
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 …Read more
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 …Read more
Founder & CEO of Third Wave and author of Mastering Microdosing Paul Austin helps us make sense of the new landscape of psychedelic therapy and what retrieving our relationship with …Read more
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 …Read more
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 …Read more
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 …Read more
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 …Read more
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 …Read more
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 …Read more
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 …Read more
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 …Read more
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. Stream, …Read more
Douglas Rushkoff updated their cover photo. …Read more
Douglas Rushkoff updated their cover photo. …Read more
The brilliant Ryan George just made a hilarious satire of the opening scene of my new book, Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires. How Billionaires Will Act During The Apocalypsewww.youtube.comOrder “Survival of the Richest” by Douglas Rushkoff here-U.S.: https://wwnorton.com/books/survival-of-the-richestCANADA: https://amzn.to/3c2l0FnHi there hell… …Read more
Douglas Rushkoff updated their cover photo. …Read more
Douglas Rushkoff updated their cover photo. …Read more
Douglas Rushkoff updated their cover photo. …Read more
Douglas Rushkoff updated their cover photo. …Read more
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 …Read more
How can shared stories and identification with each other’s trauma can help us find a new level of solidarity with one another? Author of Hawk Mountain and Host of Against Everyone with Conner Habib, Conner Habib on a new Team Human: Conner Habib | Team Humanwww.teamhuman.fmEp. 216 Author of Hawk Mountain, podcast host of Against Everyone with Conner Habib, Conner …Read more
How can we marry big, top-down efforts with bottom-up reality? UNEP co-champions of the Coalition for Digital Environmental Sustainability (CODES) Éliane Ubalijoro and David Jensen explain. 🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff reminds us that no matter how bad things get, the basic principles of ethical behavior remain the same. Stream, support, and subscribe 🎶Éliane Ubalijoro & David Jensen | Team …Read more
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 …Read more
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 …Read more
🎭 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. Stream, support, and subscribe 🎶Nick Kroll | Team Humanwww.teamhuman.fmEp. 211 Actor, comedian, and Big Mouth …Read more
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 …Read more
🌳 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 …Read more
We always knew but now we know. The tech elite mean to leave us all behind. Tune in for a special announcement about Rushkoff’s new book, Survival of the Richest, available everywhere September 6, 2022.Watch video on Facebook.com …Read more
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. The Mindset holds that if they have enough money and the right technology, these men can break the laws of physics and morality to escape a disaster …Read more
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 …Read more
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 …Read more
As psychedelics make a new comeback — this time with the support of the psychotherapeutic and investment community alike — we must be more conscious of the politics, economics, and power at stake. That’s why I’ve been so intrigued, even inspired, by the work coming from a “psychedelic watchdog” organization called Psymposia, and their terrific if terrifying podcast, Power Trip. …Read more
Playing for Team Human today, 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. Stream, support, and subscribe 🎶Hannah Close | Team Humanwww.teamhuman.fmEp. 207 Writer, researcher, and curator at Advaya Hannah Close helps to bring us from mere reciprocity …Read more
“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 …Read more
Founder and Director of Longpath Institute 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. Stream, …Read more
I just got to do Majority Report w Sam Seder & Emma Vigeland. What a great show. I love a no-holds-barred conversation. Especially nice for the focus on how libertarianism is prone to abstraction and fantasies of escape. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XOrvxZRyVI …Read more
Another great article-as-thread by my hero @doctorow https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1642212940219572225 …Read more
Imagine a world where you wake up in the morning, log onto a platform, and bid to be the lowest paid gig worker. It’s here. Marina Gorbis and Jerry Davis talk Equitable Enterprise on the new @TeamHumanShow https://www.teamhuman.fm/episodes/242-marina-gorbis-jerry-davis …Read more
Hey all. I’m helping start a new experimental MA track at CUNY/Queens College in Media Arts and Performance. All are welcome to apply (between now and June 15). What’s it about? Depends on who comes… https://www.qc.cuny.edu/academics/ms/media-arts-and-performance/ …Read more
Nice podcast interview about the billionaire mindset, from down under with Sarah Wilson: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/douglas-rushkoff-navigating-the-sad-mindset/id1548626341?i=1000605217076 …Read more
I just happened to begin recording the audiobook version of the afterword I wrote from Genesis Breyer P-Orridge’s autobiography NonBinary on 3/23/2023 at 2:30pm. …Read more
“Despite the belief that Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are detached from movements in the stock market or changes in monetary policy, the numbers tell a very different story.” Molly White on how the biz press is again getting this wrong. https://newsletter.mollywhite.net/p/no-bitcoin-isnt-pumping-because-its …Read more
Will Wheaton, the best audiobook reader ever, performs my friend Cory Doctorow’s acclaimed, entertaining yet horrifying new novel about a crypto money-laundering conspiracy. (No DRM, however, so Amazon won’t sell it.) https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1638510072610406401 …Read more
If we want to change the climate from industrialism to something more human centered, we don’t do it by manipulating or programming people. That only exacerbates the problem. It’s an artifact of the dominating, colonialist mindset of the social programmer. https://rushkoff.medium.com/dont-get-people-to-do-anything-9d59a1cf29a0?sk=c18f58e617185e77ffe93ac621519790 …Read more
I signed on to show my support for the Internet Archive, libraries’ digital rights, and an open internet with uncensored access to knowledge. https://www.battleforlibraries.com …Read more
Nice little interview at SXSW. I will try to get a copy of my talk posted soon (“The End of the Billionaire Mindset: A Celebration”). It was a great time and great timing (given the SVB fail), and the wonderful Chelsea Manning @xychelsea came! https://youtu.be/8SyMp0W0YGk …Read more
If you happen to be at SXSW, or want to check their livestream, I am speaking in half an hour about “The end of the billionaire mindset: a celebration”. Hilton Ballroom H. …Read more
“Creative destruction resulted in something more like destructive destruction. The new industry didn’t replace the old one with something better; it just destroyed everything in the path of its exit strategy.” https://rushkoff.medium.com/the-day-the-dotcom-bust-began-bd0d52c21321?sk=21a6afcb37414da95dd5d90d6bbf24fd …Read more
RT @AllTechIsHuman: 👋Do you want to “find the others” that deeply care about tackling wicked tech & society issues + co-creating a tech future aligned w/ the public interest? 👍Join us on April 26th at @betaworks in NYC w/ special guest @rushkoff! ✍️REGISTER: https://bit.ly/JoinUsApril26 https://t.co/0jwehO8SvC …Read more
I am speaking at SXSW on Saturday at 2:30p. “The End of the Billionaire Mindset: A Celebration” https://schedule.sxsw.com/2023/events/PP1141754 …Read more
RT @DanBuk4: Overthrowing The Network State: Survival Of The Richest, with @Rushkoff https://youtu.be/DBN6Q65rnQg @balajis @lutherlowe @theserfstv @daviddoel @TheOmniLiberal @VaushV @red_dilettante @zeithistoriker @_TimBarker @andrewelrod @DanielDenvir @alexjrlewis @thedigradio …Read more
RT @PSodhan: Highly recommend reading @rushkoff fantastic new book exploring how entrepreneurs & financiers are breaking the world through their technological & social innovations and why their plan to escape the coming disaster is a fools errand which I reviewed for @BooksinFive below! 1/5 …Read more
This worth coming out of twitter hiding to retweet. Greg is special. https://twitter.com/gregbarris/status/1629191703143014400 …Read more
RT @TBSocialist: 🚨Survival of the Richest with Douglas Rushkoff @yaoeo and I continue overthrowing the network state with @rushkoff who comes on to talk about his most recent book which traces the origins of libertarian exit and the extremely wealthy who advocate it. https://theblockchainsocialist.com/overthrowing-the-network-state-survival-of-the-richest/ …Read more