Team Human with Douglas Rushkoff

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 reminds us that it's okay to turn to civics to avoid burnout from 24/7 political coverage. "Civics is something different than politics....

Here's a sneak peak of tech culture journalist and former Boing Boing editor Xeni Jardin discussing the power of bottom-up media from WFMU's The Media Squat. Originally aired on April 13, 2009. You can stream the full conversation by becoming a contributing supporter of Team Human at Patreon.com/TeamHuman , Our Sponsors: * Check out BetterHelp and use my code betterhelp.com for a great dea...

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. Have we accidentally reintroduced circularity into our systems? Is there a way to integrate western civilization’s ideal of progress with integral theory? Our Sponsors: * Check out BetterHelp and use my code betterhelp.com for a great de...

Ethnopharmacologist Dennis McKenna, brother of the late Terence McKenna, meets Douglas Rushkoff for research related to Cyberia in 1992. McKenna and Rushkoff discuss DMT, cybernetic evolution, the ongoing development of the human being, and more in a special bonus episode exclusive to Team Human patrons. You can listen to the full conversation by becoming a contributing supporter now: patreon.com/...

Playing for Team Human today, R. U. Sirius, Nick Philip, Annie P.O, and Jody Radzik, look back on the magical explosion at the intersection of art and technology in the early-1990s rave scene. This episode was recorded in High Fidelity , a real-time spatial audio software developed by Second Life co-founder Philip Rosedale. Our Sponsors: * Check out BetterHelp and use my code betterhelp.com for a...

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. Our Sponsors: * Check out BetterHelp and use my code betterhe...

Playing for Team Human today, social innovator, writer, and host of, “ What Could Possibly Go Right? ” Vicki Robin. Vicky will be helping us find ways to emerge from this moment of social and economic despair, so we can reckon - together - with the consequences of confusing monetary wealth with human freedom. In his monologue, Rushkoff explains the difficulty the United States has coordinating a C...

Genesis P-Orridge meets Douglas Rushkoff for the first time in a 1993 car ride from San Francisco to Los Angeles. The third of a three-part bonus series, available exclusively to Team Human Patreon supporters. You can become a contributing supporter at https://www.patreon.com/teamhuman Our Sponsors: * Check out BetterHelp and use my code betterhelp.com for a great deal: https://www.betterhelp.com...

Playing for Team Human today, former Global Head of Elections Integrity Operations for Political Advertising at Facebook, diplomat, corporate social responsibility advisor, and technology activist, Yaël Eisenstat. Eisenstat helps us distinguish between the conscious and the automatic malfeasance of our social infrastructure. In his monologue, Rushkoff explores how the people on r/WSB delivered cyb...

Genesis P-Orridge meets Douglas Rushkoff for the first time in a 1993 car ride from San Francisco to Los Angeles. The second of a three-part bonus series, available exclusively to Team Human Patreon supporters. You can become a contributing supporter at https://www.patreon.com/teamhuman Our Sponsors: * Check out BetterHelp and use my code betterhelp.com for a great deal: https://www.betterhelp.com...

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 o...

Genesis P-Orridge meets Douglas Rushkoff for the first time in a 1993 car ride from San Francisco to Los Angeles. The first of a three-part bonus series, available exclusively to Team Human Patreon supporters. You can become a contributing supporter at https://www.patreon.com/teamhuman Our Sponsors: * Check out BetterHelp and use my code betterhelp.com for a great deal: https://www.betterhelp.com...

Playing for Team Human today, porn star, sex workers’ rights activist, lecturer, and host of Against Everyone Podcast , Conner Habib. Conner takes us from the case against PornHub to the living, thinking current constituting human existence. How is sexual energy one way to understand our organismic relationship to life energy and one another? What are ways this gets repressed or cut off? "The...

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...

This is a special preview of a bonus 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 . Our Sponsors: * Check out BetterHelp and use my code betterhelp.com for a great deal: https://www.betterhelp.com Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/b...

Playing for Team Human today, designer, activist, academic, and author of Lo-Tek Radical Design by Radical Indigenism , Julia Watson. Watson discusses how we can respond to climate change by utilizing millennia-old knowledge about how we can live in symbiosis with nature. What are the cultural preconditions required to implement a living bridge and other indigenous technologies? How can western so...

Playing for Team Human today, investigative journalist and author of “The Next Great Migration: The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move,” Sonia Shah. Shah challenges conventional assumptions about migration and reveals how it has long been central to the human experience. Further, she looks ahead to how climate change will force the next great human migration, and how we can all view each other...

A young Douglas Rushkoff sits down with David Lynch weeks after the release of Lynch's Blue Velvet . In a wide-ranging conversation, Lynch discusses what it feels like to, "make it" in the film industry and Lynch's filmmaking process. You can listen to the full conversation by becoming a contributing supporter now: patreon.com/teamhuman Our Sponsors: * Check out BetterHelp and use...

Playing for Team Human today, author and technology historian, George Dyson. Dyson helps us take a less human-centered perspective on our place in the cosmos for our own - and everything's - best interest. In his opening monologue, Rushkoff discusses the imperative to not hold grudges after the presidential election and pays tribute to his late friend, Mark Filippi. Our Sponsors: * Check out B...

Playing for Team Human today, Professor of Community Justice and Social Economic Development at Jon Jay College and author of Collective Courage: A History of African American Economic Thought and Practice , Jessica Gordon Nembhard. Jessica shows us how black communities already developed the circular economic mechanisms that the rest of us need in order to dig out of the repressive weight of expl...

Here’s a sneak peak of a conversation between Joanna Harcourt-Smith and Douglas Rushkoff from 2009. available in-full exclusively to Patreon supporters. Support at Patreon.com/TeamHuman for access to the full interview and all of our bonus content. Our Sponsors: * Check out BetterHelp and use my code betterhelp.com for a great deal: https://www.betterhelp.com Advertising Inquiries: https://redcirc...

Playing for Team Human today, Executive Director of Institute for the Future , Marina Gorbis. Gorbis discusses what she believes to be the real solution to our economic and social problems: Mutuality. She explores the psychological effect of how trust in American civic and social institutions has so quickly eroded, why scale is anti-human, and our best chance at making our ideas actionable. Our Sp...

Playing for Team Human today, storyteller and mage, Grant Morrison. Morrison discusses the magical power of art and storytelling. How can we transform the physical world through narrative? How does the hero’s journey create narcissistic personalities, and what are alternative models of storytelling? Morrison and Rushkoff weave through magic and metaphors to envision a more distributed world. Our S...

Here's a sneak peak of a conversation between Terence McKenna and Douglas Rushkoff from 1993, available in-full exclusively to Patreon supporters. Support at Patreon.com/TeamHuman for access to the full interview and all of our bonus content. Our Sponsors: * Check out BetterHelp and use my code betterhelp.com for a great deal: https://www.betterhelp.com Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle...

Douglas Rushkoff delivers the opening talk at Disinfo. Con 1999 - the first and only convention of its kind. Here's a sneak preview of Rushkoff's talk. The full-length audio is available to Team Human's Patreon supporters. Subscribe now to gain full access at https://www. Patreon.com/TeamHuman Our Sponsors: * Check out BetterHelp and use my code betterhelp.com for a great deal: https:/...