Team Human with Douglas Rushkoff

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...

Playing for Team Human today, professor, scholar, and activist Ananya Roy . Ananya will be showing us how the fight for global social justice, often begins at home. Roy has been working with Occupy Wall Street’s Micah White (Team Human Ep. 04) on a course about housing inequality for the Activist Graduate School , and is a professor of Urban Planning and Social Welfare at UCLA , where she is also...

Playing for Team Human today; Aaron Gell . Aaron is an editor at large for Medium and an instructor for NYU's Prison Education Project. Aaron will show us how listening and sharing stories can be the key to cultivating empathy. His long-form journalism finds the humanity in even the most compromised and contemptible of characters. In this episode, Douglas and Aaron invite you to eavesdrop into...

Playing for Team Human today: musician, investor, reformer, and the author of Zucked: Waking up to the Facebook Catastrophe , Roger McNamee. Roger will be talking about his mentorship of Mark Zuckerberg and what went wrong. Was it naive idealism? The imperatives of growth-driven capitalism? Greed? Rushkoff and McNamee look at how things have derailed and what must be done to reclaim the driver’s s...

Playing for Team Human Today is lifelong activist, warrior, and witch Blaed Spence AND writer, professor, and author of Slow Media , Jennifer Rauch . Today’s show continues our ‘live from the road’ series as Douglas brings Team Human to the Bunk Bar in Portland, Oregon for an event in collaboration with XRAY radio. Douglas opens with a monologue arguing that politics are still stuck in the televis...

Playing for Team Human today: award-winning journalist, activist, and author of No Is Not Enough , This Changes Everything , The Shock Doctrine , No Logo , and most recently, The Battle For Paradise , Naomi Klein. Klein and Rushkoff share a conversation about moving beyond the ideology of individualism. It’s a discussion about what it means, in concrete terms, to forge solidarity with others. Klei...

Playing for Team Human today: New York State Assemblyman and candidate for New York City Public Advocate, Ron Kim . Ron will be helping us understand the power of local, grassroots activism and how to make government a thing of the people. With the election just around the corner, February 26th, Kim is spreading a message about putting community over corporations. “This is about people investing i...

Playing for Team Human today: immigrant rights activists Jacinta Gonzalez and Amy Herzog. Jacinta and Amy will be showing us why the people living in Queens, New York may not want to welcome Amazon’s HQ2 with open arms.  With Amazon poised to deliver on lucrative government contracts for surveillance and immigration enforcement technologies, Jacinta and Amy make it clear that the stakes are higher...

In this special episode of Team Human, Douglas is joined by  Siobhan O’Connor , vice president of editorial at Medium . Siobhan and Douglas reverse roles as she hosts the official Team Human book launch. This event was recorded live at Civic Hall on January 23, just one day after the Team Human manifesto hit the shelves. Whether you’ve been a Team Human listener from the very beginning or just sta...

Playing for Team Human today: journalist and Nation columnist Aaron Maté. Aaron is gong to break down “Russiagate,” taking a sober look at the media frenzy of “bombshell” stories asserting a Russian conspiracy behind the 2016 election. Maté explains why he thinks this narrative ultimately aligns with the longstanding interests of U.S. establishment power. He calls it a “privilege protection racket...

Today’s episode is a special live celebration of the release of Team Human the book and manifesto, which is now available everywhere! On January 8th, Douglas was joined by acclaimed author Seth Godin for a pre-release book party at Betaworks Studios in NYC. Douglas reverses roles for the show, with Seth hosting the conversation. Not the typical book reading, Douglas and Seth use this live event as...

Playing for Team Human today; technologist, futurist, inventor and mage Mark Pesce . In this conversation with Douglas, part two of a live Team Human show at Civic Hall , Pesce offers a thought-provoking frame through which we might better understand our relationship to algorithms and artificial intelligence: What might you call a creature that feeds on your energy, knows your weaknesses, and can...