By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 1 Apr 21
Norbert Wiener tried to warn us way back in the 1950s that digital technologies would be cybernetic in nature. They do not function in the straight linear fashion of the Industrial Age with its assembly lines, unidirectional drive toward progress, and growth-based capitalism. No, the world of cybernetics is a world of feedback loops — like the cycles of a computer. Call and response. Everything comes back, like karma. And though for a while it looked like digital technology was just going to accelerate that relentless drive toward infinite wealth for the few, feedback has finally kicked in, and the
Norbert Wiener tried to warn us way back in the 1950s that digital technologies would be cybernetic in nature. They do not function in the straight linear fashion of the Industrial Age with its assembly lines, unidirectional drive toward progress, and growth-based capitalism. No, the world of cybernetics is a world of feedback loops — like the cycles of a
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 1 Apr 21
We’ve released the first of a three-part conversation between Rushkoff and Genesis P-Orridge from 1993 for our #TeamHuman Patreon supporters. Become a contributing supporting today to listen now 🎶Team Human Bonus Episode: Genesis P-Orridge (1993) – Part 1 | Team Human with Douglas Rushkoff on Patreonwww.patreon.comJoin Team Human with Douglas Rushkoff on Patreon to get access to this post and more benefits.
We’ve released the first of a three-part conversation between Rushkoff and Genesis P-Orridge from 1993 for our #TeamHuman Patreon supporters. Become a contributing supporting today to listen now 🎶Team Human Bonus Episode: Genesis P-Orridge (1993) – Part 1 | Team Human with Douglas Rushkoff on Patreonwww.patreon.comJoin Team Human with Douglas Rushkoff on Patreon to get access to this post and
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 1 Apr 21
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 proposes that 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.” Stream, support, and subscribe 🎶 Kenya (Robinson) | Team Humanwww.teamhuman.fmEp. 179 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.
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 proposes that 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.” Stream, support, and subscribe 🎶 Kenya (Robinson)
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 1 Apr 21
Many Westerners have come to understand the problems inherent in a society obsessed with growth and have struggled to assert a more timeless set of spiritual sensibilities. But, almost invariably, such efforts get mired in our ingrained notions of personal growth, progress, and optimism. Read more from “Self-Actualization and the Myth of Personal Growth,” from Medium’s weekly #TeamHuman serialization 📖 https://medium.com/team-human/self-actualization-and-the-myth-of-personal-growth-67c12e5310f3Self-Actualization and the Myth of Personal Growthmedium.comHow the counterculture surrendered communal well-being to individual enlightenment
Many Westerners have come to understand the problems inherent in a society obsessed with growth and have struggled to assert a more timeless set of spiritual sensibilities. But, almost invariably, such efforts get mired in our ingrained notions of personal growth, progress, and optimism. Read more from “Self-Actualization and the Myth of Personal Growth,” from Medium’s weekly #TeamHuman serialization 📖
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 23 Dec 20
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
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
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 21 Dec 20
How can we transform the physical world through narrative? 🌀 https://www.teamhuman.fm/episodes/166-grant-morrisonGrant Morrison “Freaks Like Us” | Team Humanwww.teamhuman.fmEp. 166 Playing for Team Human, storyteller and mage, Grant Morrison.
How can we transform the physical world through narrative? 🌀 https://www.teamhuman.fm/episodes/166-grant-morrisonGrant Morrison “Freaks Like Us” | Team Humanwww.teamhuman.fmEp. 166 Playing for Team Human, storyteller and mage, Grant Morrison.
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 17 Dec 20
While humans are drawn to and empowered by paradox, our market-driven technologies and entertainment appear to be fixed on creating perfectly seamless simulations. We can pinpoint the year movies or video games were released based on the quality of their graphics: the year they figured out steam, the year they learned to reflect light, or the year they made fur ripple in the wind. Robot progress is similarly measured by the milestones of speech, grasping objects, gazing into our eyes, or wearing artificial flesh. Each improvement reaches toward the ultimate simulation: a movie, virtual reality experience, or robot with such
While humans are drawn to and empowered by paradox, our market-driven technologies and entertainment appear to be fixed on creating perfectly seamless simulations. We can pinpoint the year movies or video games were released based on the quality of their graphics: the year they figured out steam, the year they learned to reflect light, or the year they made fur
Here's a special preview of a bonus #TeamHuman episode featuring American comic book writer Harvey …
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 16 Dec 20
Here’s a special preview of a bonus #TeamHuman 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: https://www.patreon.com/posts/45087800Harvey Pekar | Team Human Bonus Episode PreviewWatch video on Facebook.com
Here’s a special preview of a bonus #TeamHuman 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: https://www.patreon.com/posts/45087800Harvey Pekar | Team Human Bonus Episode PreviewWatch video on Facebook.com
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 16 Dec 20
I remember back around 1990, when psychedelics philosopher Timothy Leary first read Stewart Brand’s book The Media Lab, about the new digital technology center MIT had created in its architecture department. Leary devoured the book cover to cover over the course of one long day. Around sunset, just as he was finishing, he threw it across the living room in disgust. “Look at the index,” he said, “of all the names, less than 3% are women. That’ll tell you something.” He went on to explain his core problem with the Media Lab and the digital universe these technology pioneers were
I remember back around 1990, when psychedelics philosopher Timothy Leary first read Stewart Brand’s book The Media Lab, about the new digital technology center MIT had created in its architecture department. Leary devoured the book cover to cover over the course of one long day. Around sunset, just as he was finishing, he threw it across the living room in
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 14 Dec 20
“There was also a very specific idea about technology, development, and progress. That’s something we still have. That’s a legacy we still bear.” – Julia Watson, #TeamHuman ep. 171 Stream, support, and subscribe now 🔊 https://www.teamhuman.fm/episodes/julia-watson-survival-of-the-most-symbiotic-from-impakt-festivalWhere did western society go wrong? | Team Human ep. 171: Julia Watson “Survival of the Most Symbiotic”Watch video on Facebook.com
“There was also a very specific idea about technology, development, and progress. That’s something we still have. That’s a legacy we still bear.” – Julia Watson, #TeamHuman ep. 171 Stream, support, and subscribe now 🔊 https://www.teamhuman.fm/episodes/julia-watson-survival-of-the-most-symbiotic-from-impakt-festivalWhere did western society go wrong? | Team Human ep. 171: Julia Watson “Survival of the Most Symbiotic”Watch video on Facebook.com