Team Human with Douglas Rushkoff

Playing for Team Human today, it’s Team Human! Douglas Rushkoff hosts the third Team Human call-in show from the community Discord server. He fields questions from community members about Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires , the possibilities of Web3 after Ethereum’s swtich from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake, and how we can find hope in entertainment. 🌍 Team Huma...

Essayist and McLuhan archivist Clinton Ignatov helps us understand Marshall McLuhan - and ourselves - in the context of the media environments we inhabit and the metaphors we use to understand them. 🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff explains how our desperate attempts at profiteering and monopolization render us all more vulnerable to death and disaster. 📰 You can read a written version of Rushkoff’s...

Psychologist, sociologist, MIT Professor, and Author of Reclaiming Conversation and The Empathy Diaries , Sherry Turkle guest hosts Team Human in a special reverse interview to celebrate the release of Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires . Turkle helps Rushkoff share his experiences with the men behind The Mindset to understand them in the greater context of the fear...

Douglas Rushkoff joins Medium's Adrienne Gibbs for a special Twitter Spaces conversation about the launch of his new book, Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires . Originally recorded September 9, 2022. 🌍 Team Human is made possible thanks to the generous support of our listeners on Patreon . Your support will unlock access to our Discord community and exclusive bo...

Multi-disciplinary artist and author of How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy Jenny Odell conducts a rare reverse interview with Douglas Rushkoff to celebrate the launch of Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires . Odell interrogates the premise and purpose of. Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires through the lens of her investi...

On this week’s episode, Douglas Rushkoff offers a special excerpt of his new book, Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires. 📕 Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires is now available wherever books are sold! 🎧 Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires is produced by Record Books and narrated by Douglas Rushkoff. 🌍 Te...

Author of Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong About the Future of Transportation and Host of Tech Won’t Save Us Paris Marx helps us see how the future of transportation imagined by our techno-benefactors may best be understood as a collective dead end. 🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff explains how laughter can be an antidote to help us view the mindset of tech billionaires. 📕 Road To Nowh...

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.  Keep up with Marc Brickma...

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 apart....

Playing for Team Human today, it’s Team Human! Douglas Rushkoff hosts the second Team Human call-in show from the community Discord server. He fields questions from community members discussing how the ideals of the 1990s counterculture won, the role of religion in Team Human's mission, and why platform cooperatives have trouble scaling against venture capital-backed ventures. Recorded July 23...

Author of Hawk Mountain and Host of Against Everyone with Conner Habib , Conner Habib shows us how shared stories and identification with each other’s trauma can help us find a new level of solidarity with one another. 🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff explains why higher prices are not necessarily a bad thing. 📰 You can read a written version of Rushkoff’s monologue, Breaking News: Stuff Actually Cos...

UNEP co-champions of the Coalition for Digital Environmental Sustainability (CODES) Éliane Ubalijoro and David Jensen help us see how to marry big, top-down efforts with bottom-up reality. 🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff reminds us that no matter how bad things get, the basic principles of ethical behavior remain the same. 📰 You can read a written version of Rushkoff’s monologue, Don’t Change the Pi...

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 Web...

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. 📰 You can read a written version of Rushkoff’s monologue, The Tail Wagging The Doge , on Medium. 🌍 Team Human is made...

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 we need to avoid apocalypse altogether. 🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff asks us not to abandon people in red states. 🔥 Learn more about The Post Apocalypse School of Teesside: Website | Twitter 🌍 Team Human is made possib...

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. 📰 You can read a written version of Rushkoff’s monologue, It Doesn’t Get Better? , on Medium. 🌍 Team Human is made possible thanks to the ge...

Rushkoff explores the ecosystem of the early internet, the transition from a passive-to-active media environment, and how digital technology disrupts legacy media gatekeepers in a preview of this week's bonus content, an interview Rushkoff did about Cyberia for KOPB public radio in 1994. 🌍 Become a contributing supporter for as little as $2 per month. You’ll instantly gain access to this inte...

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, but concrete, set of answers about how we can confront our global crises. 📰 You can read a written version of Rushkoff’s monologue, Rise to the Occasion , on Medium. 🌍 Team Human is made possible thanks t...

Here's a preview of this week's bonus content: Douglas Rushkoff delivers a reading of Cyberia: Life in the Trenches of Cyberspace Rushkoff at Powell's Books in 1994. 🌍 Become a contributing supporter for as little as $2 per month. You’ll instantly gain access to this interview, as well as... 👉 The Team Human "Team Feed" featuring conversations with Timothy Leary, Terrence McK...

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 after it was published. 📰 You can read a written version of Rushkoff’s monologue, Program or Be Programmed , on Medium. 🌍 Visit Sue Thomas’ website to learn more about her work. 📕 Learn more about Sue...

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 everywhere September 6, 2022. 📕 Pre-order Survival of the Richest from your favorite local bookseller and request a copy from your local library. 📰 Read Rushkoff's book announcement, Escape Fantasies of the Tech...

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. 📰 Read a written version...

How can we come to understand the human propensity to organize chaotic experiences into narrative, and our tendency to mistake our narratives for reality? Rushkoff explores in a talk originally delivered at Cyber Salon 2002. 🌍 Become a contributing supporter for as little as $2 per month. You’ll instantly gain access to this interview, as well as... 👉 The Team Human "Team Feed" featuring...

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. 📰 Read a written version of Rushkoff's monologue, The Fabric of Society , on Medium. 🌍 Team Human is made possible thanks to the generous support of our listeners on Patreon . Your support will unlock access...

How can we view Judaism as less of a religion and more of an approach to media and society? Rushkoff explains in an interview originally recorded April 2002. From KAOS radio, Olympia, Washington. 🌍 Become a contributing supporter for as little as $2 per month. You’ll instantly gain access to this interview, as well as... 👉 The Team Human "Team Feed" featuring conversations with Timothy L...