Team Human with Douglas Rushkoff

Playing for Team Human today, author, social critic, and public speaker James Howard Kunstler. Kunstler discusses how the current pandemic is just the beginning of a process he calls ‘The Long Emergency.” “When the dust settles, we’re tasked with reorganizing our lives.” he says. Further, Kuntsler discusses the implications of a debt-based economy when debt can’t be paid and money ceases to repres...

Playing for Team Human today, author, filmmaker, and founder & director of Local Futures, Helena Norberg-Hodge. Norberg-Hodge joins Team Human to discuss how globalisation doesn't make things more efficient, and how localism can work to serve real people and real places. In his opening monologue, Rushkoff remembers his friend, the late Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (1950-2020), and reflects on...

Playing for Team Human today, founder of the Center for the Study of Digital Life, Mark Stahlman. Stahlman joins Team Human to discuss how artificial intelligence has become the new ground for human interaction, and why navigating it will require us to retrieve our uniquely human senses. "We will only become fully human if we learn to take responsibility for our actions." Stahlman says. Fu...

Playing for Team Human today, mental health counselor and author of " Cult of Trump: A Leading Cult Expert Explains How the President Uses Mind Control " Steven Hassan. Hassan joins Team Human to discuss how today's political movements constitute cults, his experience being recruited by the Moonies while in college, and why mass civic education about the psychology of influence is impo...

Playing for Team Human today, author, social change thought leader, nonprofit founder, and congressional candidate for New York's 17th district, Allison Fine. Fine joins Team Human to discuss her platform and decision to run for congress. "We are so broken right now that I actually want to go into the belly of the beast to get us to the next chapter. I think it's important for us to pa...

Playing for Team Human today, author, centenarian, environmentalist, futurist, and scientist, James Lovelock. Lovelock joins Team Human to discuss his new book, " Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence " which envisions a future where artificial intelligence and humans together will help the earth survive. On this episode, Lovelock and Rushkoff discuss the origins of the Gaia Hypoth...

Playing for Team Human today activist, author and journalist Lauren Duca. Lauren joins Team Human to discuss her new book, "How to Start a Revolution: Young People and the Future of American Politics" which explores the new forms of political engagement being pioneered by the next generation. On this episode, Duca shared her thoughts on how a generational shift from political alienation to...

Playing for Team Human today radical activist, counter-cultural icon, and founder of The Realist magazine, Paul Krassner (1932-2019). Krassner and Rushkoff explore how the combination of fabricated news, scandals and outrage - otherwise known as mind fucking - were once the tools employed by anarchic activists. They discuss how a one-time violin prodigy became the pioneer of the US underground pre...

Playing for Team Human today, founder and principal investigator at Pataphysics Research & virtual reality pioneer, Eric Gullichsen. Gullichsen and Rushkoff look back at how early virtual reality headsets brought them together nearly 25 years ago. Together, they discuss Timothy Leary's commentary and influence on Gullichsen's work in virtual reality and how Leary still influences Guill...

Playing for Team Human today, Cofounder of Kickstarter & The Creative Independent and author of the newly published book, “ This Could Be Our Future: A Manifesto for a More Generous World ,” Yancey Strickler. Strickler joins Team Human to discuss his vision for building a society that looks beyond money and toward optimizing for humans. What are ways we can protect our human weaknesses? How ca...

Playing for Team Human today, CEO of Yerba Buena Center for the Arts , co-founder of Culture Bank, and Innovator in Residence at the Kauffman Foundation, Deborah Cullinan . Also playing for Team Human this week, New York State Assemblyman Ron Kim and Cornell Law Professor Robert Hockett. Plus, hear from Reverend Billy, who explains how Team Human supporters can be sainted at Earth Riot on Sunday,...

Playing for Team Human today, drummer and session musician, Vinnie Colaiuta. Vinnie joins Team Human to discuss the art of listening, collaborating, and celebrating the imperfection that makes music a human art. Douglas and Vinnie explore the difference between making music together, the biases of music-production technology, what Vinnie has learned from working artists like Frank Zappa, the impor...

Playing for Team Human today, filmmaker and author, Tiffany Shlain. Tiffany joins Team Human to discuss her new book, 24/6: The Power of Unplugging One Day a Week. By drawing from the ancient ritual of Shabbat she shows how turning off all screens for twenty-four hours each week can help us reclaim our humanity. I This week’s  Team Human  also includes a short tribute to counter-culture icon, Paul...

Playing for Team Human today, Author and Gift Economy Advocate, Charles Eisenstein. Charles joins Team Human to share how he believes quantification is changing the way we think about climate, ecology and human beings. Less of an interview, this informal conversation was recorded at Bretton Woods@75 where Charles and Douglas were both speakers. They discuss the role work plays in our lives, and ex...

Playing for Team Human today, former TIME International Editor, Bryan Walsh & attorney and business woman Adrienne Haynes. Bryan Walsh shares his thoughts on why the end of humankind seems inevitable and the ways we might avoid imminent crisis. In his new book, End Times: A Brief Guide to the End of the World , Walsh explores how the threats of asteroids, super volcanoes, nuclear war, climate...

Playing for Team Human today, musician, media scholar, and founding  Team Human  producer Stephen Bartolomei AND community advocate and founder of the Union for Contemporary Art Brigitte McQueen Shew. Douglas opens the show with a monologue about the disorienting construction of the Democratic debates by television networks. He looks at how the television environment fights to assert its dominance...

Playing for Team Human today, Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research and Fellow at Harvard University's Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, Mary L. Gray. Mary L. Gray joins Team Human to share her research into the invisible human workforce that powers the web. In her new co-authored book, Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass , Gray explores...

On June 2nd, 2019 Team Human was invited by VRTO to host a live recording on virtual reality, story telling and time. Joining Douglas on stage, VRTO Founder, Keram Malicki-Sanchez followed by artist, technologist and organizer, Amelia Winger Bearskin. Rushkoff discusses the origins of virtual reality and shares stories of exploring the limits of the medium with Timothy Leary and Terrence McKenna....

Playing for Team Human today, San Francisco-based writer and author of Liminal Dreaming: Exploring Consciousness at the Edges of Sleep , Jennifer Dumpert. Jennifer Dumpert joins Team Human to explore the unusual half-waking dream states of hypnagogia and hypnopompia. In her new book, Liminal Dreaming , Dumpert shares her exploration of these dream spaces to show how they can improve sleep, mitigat...

Playing for Team Human today, American Journalist and author of The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming , David Wallace-Wells. David Wallace-Wells joins Team Human to share why he believes that the climate crisis that is both inevitable and avoidable. In his new book, The Uninhabitable Earth , Wallace-Wells works to deconstruct the myth that humans are insulated from the worst effects of clima...

Playing for Team Human today, activist, journalist, and science fiction author of the new anthology Radicalized , Cory Doctorow. Cory has a unique way of building stories, metaphors, and scenarios that clarify the underlying dynamics of living in a technologized society. In Radicalized , Cory extrapolates the embedded laws and values defining the present moment to show, not some distant future, bu...

Returning to play for Team Human today, filmmaker, author, musician, and activist Astra Taylor. Astra joins Douglas for a conversation that wrestles with the paradoxes and contradictions inherent in democracy. It’s a discussion explored in her latest film, What is Democracy? and her new book, Democracy May Not Exist But We’ll Miss It When It’s Gone . ( Hudson Books , Indie Bound , Amazon ) Do we r...

Playing for Team Human today and closing out this season of the show; author and New York Times and Wired contributor Clive Thompson . Clive is a keen observer of human beings and the way different media and technological environments change how we see ourselves and our purpose. His latest book , Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World , looks at the ways coders are engaged...

Playing for Team Human today, founder of the Internet Archive , Brewster Kahle. Kahle is keeping the dream of building a decentralized, open, mind-expanding internet alive. In this Team Human conversation, Brewster and Douglas discuss the faulty dot-com business models and incentives that derailed the net. They look at the mountains of Twentieth Century culture in danger of being lost from the arc...

Gail Bradbrook and Clare Farrell leverage love and grief to build the Extinction Rebellion, a movement that demands immediate action on climate change. “There is an emotional component to waking up to our social, political, economic, and climate predicaments, and a mix of anger, shock, exhilaration, and fear. Yet properly integrated, they can all serve us as we attempt to muster the collective for...