By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 1 Apr 21
Admit it. Twitter isn’t quite as sensational without its leading troll, President Donald Trump. Online disinformation — perhaps the most compelling content available on social networks — is down 73% since he was banned. Not even the response to an armed attack on the Capitol or the fake news about antifa and Black Lives Matter having instigated it as a false flag event have been enough to stir up the social media landscape to previous frenzied levels of activity. And if social media is already suffering in the post-Trump era, imagine how boring cable news is going to be without
Admit it. Twitter isn’t quite as sensational without its leading troll, President Donald Trump. Online disinformation — perhaps the most compelling content available on social networks — is down 73% since he was banned. Not even the response to an armed attack on the Capitol or the fake news about antifa and Black Lives Matter having instigated it as a
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 1 Apr 21
Once we dispense with shame, we are liberated to experience the full, sacred, unlikely wackiness of being human. We are confident enough to leave the safety of the private computer simulation and jump into the wet chaos of social intimacy. Instead of marveling at the granularity of a VR world or the realism of a robot’s facial expression, we open our senses to the taste of the breeze or the touch of a lover. We exchange the vertigo of the uncanny valley for the exhilaration of awe. Read more from “How Our Healthy Longing for Awe Gets Exploited by the
Once we dispense with shame, we are liberated to experience the full, sacred, unlikely wackiness of being human. We are confident enough to leave the safety of the private computer simulation and jump into the wet chaos of social intimacy. Instead of marveling at the granularity of a VR world or the realism of a robot’s facial expression, we open
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 1 Apr 21
Environmentalism sometimes makes us feel like we humans are the problem. But we’re not. Humans are not a cancer on the planet. At the same time, we can’t ignore the fact that people are willful beings, capable of changing the natural environment to suit our whims and prone to dominating anything we deem threatening.How to Avoid Pitting Nature Against Progresslink.medium.comWe cannot dominate nature for much longer, but neither can we retreat from civilization
Environmentalism sometimes makes us feel like we humans are the problem. But we’re not. Humans are not a cancer on the planet. At the same time, we can’t ignore the fact that people are willful beings, capable of changing the natural environment to suit our whims and prone to dominating anything we deem threatening.How to Avoid Pitting Nature Against Progresslink.medium.comWe
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 1 Apr 21
Is there a way to integrate western civilization’s ideal of progress with integral theory? Author of “Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World” and member of the Apalech Clan, Tyson Yunkaporta helps us explore on a new #TeamHuman. Stream, support, and subscribe 🎶Tyson Yunkaporta | Team Humanwww.teamhuman.fmEp. 178 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.
Is there a way to integrate western civilization’s ideal of progress with integral theory? Author of “Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World” and member of the Apalech Clan, Tyson Yunkaporta helps us explore on a new #TeamHuman. Stream, support, and subscribe 🎶Tyson Yunkaporta | Team Humanwww.teamhuman.fmEp. 178 Author of “Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the
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