Douglas Rushkoff

Team Human with Douglas Rushkoff

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Douglas Rushkoff sits down with scientists, activists, artists, philosophers, and researchers asking the same question: who actually benefits from the way we've built this world — and what do we do about it? Team Human is a weekly podcast about technology, power, consciousness, and what it means to stay human in a world that increasingly doesn't seem designed for us. No corporate backing. No network. No algorithm deciding what gets said. Just honest, rigorous conversation with people working at the edges of the most important questions of our time. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for mo...

Author

Douglas Rushkoff

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Society

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Latest episode

Jul 7, 2026

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Episodes

Harvey Pekar: Bonus 2009 Interview - Patreon Special 16.12.2020

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...

Julia Watson "Survival of the Most Symbiotic"- Live from IMPAKT Festival 08.12.2020

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...

Sonia Shah "We're Always Strangers, Ourselves" - Live from IMPAKT Festival 25.11.2020

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...

David Lynch: Bonus 1986 Interview - Patreon Special 18.11.2020

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...

George Dyson "Nature is on Team Machine 11.11.2020

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...

Jessica Gordon Nembhard "Black Ideas Matter" 28.10.2020

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...

Joanna Harcourt-Smith: Bonus 2009 Interview - Patreon Special 21.10.2020

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...

Marina Gorbis "Mutuality" 14.10.2020

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...

Grant Morrison "Freaks Like Us" 30.09.2020

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...

Terence McKenna: Bonus 1993 Interview - Patreon Special 29.09.2020

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 "Find the Others" at Disinfo.Con 1999 - Patreon Special 09.09.2020

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:/...

Dríade Aguiar "Culture Makes History" 02.09.2020

Playing for Team Human today, co-founder and co-editor of Mídia NINJA, Dríade Aguiar. Aguiar explains how and why to center the voices of those are are experiencing reality on the ground. She looks at those who make the future and explains how it's accomplished, how we can stop injustices that are happening to real people in real places, and looks at how activist and media efforts can help to...

Timothy Leary: Bonus 1993 Interview - Patreon Special 26.08.2020

Here's a sneak peak of Timothy Leary and Douglas Rushkoff's archived conversation 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://redcir...

Jim Rutt "An Invitation to Game B" 19.08.2020

Playing for Team Human, complexity theorist, host of the Jim Rutt Podcast series, and former chairman the Santa Fe Institute, Jim Rutt. Rutt shares his idea for a new civilization-era operating system. Why does the the United States' outdated operating system call for a radical change to a more equitable and humane landscape? "If the glue that holds Game A together is competition for statu...

Nora Bateson "The Changemaker's Trap" 05.08.2020

Playing for Team Human today, filmmaker, writer, educator, and systems thinker, Nora Bateson. Bateson and Rushkoff interrogate our moment of global crisis to challenge the very systems that drive human behavior and thought. Further, they explore why quantifying humans as part of a system reduces people to abstract figures rather than the complex beings they truly are. "There's something ab...

Michael Nesmith "Life After Television" 22.07.2020

Playing for Team Human today, musician, producer, and inventor of the music video, Michael Nesmith. Nesmith will be sharing his insights about what it was like to live inside the reality television show that we’re all living in today. Nesmith discusses his self-awareness of existing in a television environment, the influence the Monkees' music had on the Beatles, and the psychic effects the sh...

Matt Stoller "Make America Ours Again" 08.07.2020

Playing for Team Human today, author of “ Goliath: The Hundred Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy, ” and Director of Research at the American Economic Liberties Project, Matt Stoller. Stoller disinters the ground of neoliberalism and looks at how we can reclaim democracy from the market. What are ways for us to make sense of -- and reform -- economic systems that veil themselves as apol...

Julie Holland, M.D. "Good Chemistry" 24.06.2020

Playing for Team Human today, psychiatrist and author of "Good Chemistry: The Science of Connection, from Soul to Psychedelics," Julie Holland, M.D . Holland explores how people can bring elements of their psychedelic experiences into their everyday lives. She looks at the role compassion plays in the psychedelic experience and how developmental disorders can be aided by these experiences....

Richard Metzger "Do They Owe Us A Living?" 10.06.2020

Playing for Team Human today, counterculture icon and Editor of Dangerous Minds , Richard Metzger. Metzger envisions what life might look like on the dole and what that means for the future of the counterculture. Rushkoff and Metzger consider whether the ideals of yesterday’s counterculture were so successful that they’ve become the new over culture? And if so, who are really the new revolutionari...

Tyson Yunkaporta "Find the Other Others" 27.05.2020

Playing for Team Human today, senior lecturer in Indigenous Knowledges at Deakin University in Melbourne and author of " Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save The World ," Tyson Yunkaporta Yunkaporta helps us apply an indigenous lens to see our global crises in a more actionable and inclusive way. Where did western culture go wrong? How did the shift from a circular understanding of...

Martin Winiecki "The Great Unveiling" 13.05.2020

Playing for Team Human today, co-worker at the Tamera Peace Research & Education Center , writer, and activist, Martin Winiecki. Winiecki discusses the underlying societal causes of Covid-19 and looks at the values people will need to hold in order to heal. He explores the need to transform and integrate the economic, conscious, and erotic structures to help create values like mutual support,...

Jared Diamond "Robots in the Outfield" 07.05.2020

Playing for Team Human today, national baseball writer for the Wall Street Journal and author of " Swing Kings " Jared Diamond Diamond discusses how technological advancements have changed the fun and quirky ways that baseball organizations construct their teams and play the game. Why are baseball players changing their swings in order to hit more home runs? What is behind baseball’s desir...

Priscillia Ludosky "Occupying Reality" 29.04.2020

Playing for Team Human today, activist and a Founder of the Yellow Vest Movement, Priscillia Ludosky Ludosky will be showing us how a movement uniting the agendas of the people transcends the sensibilities of both the left and the right. How can solidarity serve as the ground for sustainable social change? How can an environmental movement weigh the concerns of the environment with the economic ne...

Brian Hughes "The Undercurrent of Extremism" 22.04.2020

Playing for Team Human today, Graduate Assistant at the Polarization Extremism and Radical Innovation Lab at American University, Brian Hughes. Hughes shares with us the underlying drive fueling so much of today’s more violent extremism along with how we can mitigate some of its impact. How can we reconcile issues of identity that are tied to structural conditions of racism and sexism? How do we a...

Reverend Billy and Savitri D "Charging the Wildness" 15.04.2020

Playing for Team Human today, artists, activists, and writers Reverend Billy and Savitri D. Reverend Billy and Savitri D discuss the origins of the Church of Stop Shopping and the desire to create a tradition of a post-religious American future. Reverend Billy and Savitri walk us through the evolution of the Church of Stop Shopping as a satire into a group that addresses the challenges and needs o...

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