By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 28 Apr 21
Teacher of principled entrepreneurship 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. Stream, support, and subscribe 🎶Luke Burgis | Team Humanwww.teamhuman.fmEp. 181 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
Teacher of principled entrepreneurship 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. Stream, support, and subscribe 🎶Luke Burgis | Team Humanwww.teamhuman.fmEp. 181
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 22 Apr 21
Phenomena such as climate change occur on time scales too large for most people to understand, whether they’re being warned by scientists or their great-grandparents. Besides, the future is a distancing concept — someone else’s problem. Brain studies reveal that we relate to our future self the way we relate to a completely different person. We don’t identify that person as us. Perhaps this is a coping mechanism. If we truly ponder the horrific possibilities, everything becomes hyperbolic. We find it easier to imagine survival tactics for the zombie apocalypse than ideas to make the next ten years a bit
Phenomena such as climate change occur on time scales too large for most people to understand, whether they’re being warned by scientists or their great-grandparents. Besides, the future is a distancing concept — someone else’s problem. Brain studies reveal that we relate to our future self the way we relate to a completely different person. We don’t identify that person
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 15 Apr 21
The planet’s complex biosphere will survive us, one way or the other. Our own continuing participation, however, is in some doubt. Our aggressive industrial processes don’t just threaten the diversity of other species; they threaten us, too. Increasing levels of carbon dioxide lead to sharp declines in cognitive ability. Global warming not only displaces huge populations, but the higher temperatures can lead to everything from the spread of disease to increased social unrest. We are part of a complex system of feedback loops and interconnections, and must learn to approach our world with greater sophistication, empathy, and vision — not
The planet’s complex biosphere will survive us, one way or the other. Our own continuing participation, however, is in some doubt. Our aggressive industrial processes don’t just threaten the diversity of other species; they threaten us, too. Increasing levels of carbon dioxide lead to sharp declines in cognitive ability. Global warming not only displaces huge populations, but the higher temperatures
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 14 Apr 21
🌍 Author and lifelong community and climate activist Frank Brodhead helps us transform our rage and despair into hope and action. 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. Stream, support, and subscribe 🎶 Frank Brodhead | Team Humanwww.teamhuman.fmEp. 180 Author and lifelong community and climate activist Frank Brodhead helps us transform
🌍 Author and lifelong community and climate activist Frank Brodhead helps us transform our rage and despair into hope and action. 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
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 8 Apr 21
The problem with relying entirely on industrial approaches to the land, or anything, is that they oversimplify complex systems. They ignore the circulatory, regenerative properties of living organisms and communities, and treat everything in linear terms: inputs and outputs. They might maximize one season’s yield of crop, but at the expense of the soil matrix, nutrient levels, crop health, and future harvest yield. This then necessitates the use of more chemicals and genetic modifications, and the cycle continues. By current estimates, the earth will run out of topsoil (the layer of earth in which plants can grow) within sixty years.
The problem with relying entirely on industrial approaches to the land, or anything, is that they oversimplify complex systems. They ignore the circulatory, regenerative properties of living organisms and communities, and treat everything in linear terms: inputs and outputs. They might maximize one season’s yield of crop, but at the expense of the soil matrix, nutrient levels, crop health, and
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 1 Apr 21
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.Team Human Bonus Preview: Douglas Rushkoff and Michael Oeming on FADE to BLACK with Jimmy ChurchAleister & AdolfWatch video on Facebook.com
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.Team Human Bonus Preview: Douglas Rushkoff and Michael Oeming on FADE to BLACK
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 1 Apr 21
Singularitans consider technology more trustworthy than humans. Surveillance is not just a profit center for social media, but a way of safeguarding digital society from human resistance. I Will Not Pass the Evolutionary Torch To My Robot Successormedium.comHuman beings are not the problem; we are the solution
Singularitans consider technology more trustworthy than humans. Surveillance is not just a profit center for social media, but a way of safeguarding digital society from human resistance. I Will Not Pass the Evolutionary Torch To My Robot Successormedium.comHuman beings are not the problem; we are the solution
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 1 Apr 21
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. Stream, support, and
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.
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 1 Apr 21
On encountering the destructiveness of European colonialists, Native Americans concluded that the invaders must have a disease. They called it wettiko: a delusional belief that cannibalizing the life force of others is a logical and morally upright way to live. The Native Americans believed that wettiko derived from people’s inability to see themselves as enmeshed, interdependent parts of the natural environment. Once this disconnect has occurred, nature is no longer seen as something to be emulated but as something to be conquered. Read more from Medium’s weekly #TeamHuman serialization 📚How the Promise of a Utopian Future Was Used to Justify
On encountering the destructiveness of European colonialists, Native Americans concluded that the invaders must have a disease. They called it wettiko: a delusional belief that cannibalizing the life force of others is a logical and morally upright way to live. The Native Americans believed that wettiko derived from people’s inability to see themselves as enmeshed, interdependent parts of the natural
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 1 Apr 21
The billionaires are the system itself. They cannot act with autonomy; they can only do whatever it is they think will make them money. The introduction of Lulz into their world means that there are now conscious, autonomously acting humans. Our moves make no sense to the algorithms or the market makers, because they are not motivated by the rational, short-term self-interest of individual market players. No, it only makes sense in terms of a human collective, looking to overturn a financial system that has been devised to extract the value from our world, and deliver it to an increasingly
The billionaires are the system itself. They cannot act with autonomy; they can only do whatever it is they think will make them money. The introduction of Lulz into their world means that there are now conscious, autonomously acting humans. Our moves make no sense to the algorithms or the market makers, because they are not motivated by the rational,