Team Human
Douglas Rushkoff
Team Human is a weekly podcast and set of resources enabling human intervention in the economic, technological, and social programs that determine how we live, work, and interact. This is media as cultural resistance and a path to social change. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Chapel Perilous with Gabriel Kennedy and Grant Morrison
Grant Morrison and Douglas Rushkoff celebrate the publication of the first biography of Robert Anton Wilson with author Gabriel Kennedy (PropAnon). Kennedy and Morrison walk us through the Chapel Perilous and land us safely back in consensus reality.📕 Chapel Perilous: The Life and Thought Crimes of Robert Anton Wilson by Robert Anton Wilson is now available.🌍 You can support Team Human on Patreon to unlock access to a number of great perks including ad-free episodes of Team Human, access to th
Every Thing Is In Between
Rushkoff discusses the importance of looking between major global events in order to find connection and meaning.🌍 You can support Team Human on Patreon to unlock access to a number of great perks including ad-free episodes of Team Human, access to the Team Human Discord community where we record monthly Q&A sessions with Rushkoff, special perks like free tickets to live events, and access to the Rushkoff archive. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more info
Rushkoff's Christmas Monologue: Corleone-Style Diplomacy and the Post-human Future
Rushkoff shares a new monologue that makes sense of Trump's latest round of seemingly outlandish proclamations.🌍 You can support Team Human on Patreon to unlock access to a number of great perks including ad-free episodes of Team Human, access to the Team Human Discord community where we record monthly Q&A sessions with Rushkoff, special perks like free tickets to live events, and access to the Rushkoff archive. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more inform
Mitch Horowitz: Occultism and the Fight for Reality - Live from CX
Award-winning author and host of Discovery/HBO’s Alien Encounters: Fact or Fiction Mitch Horowitz helps us create the conditions for a tide pool where only rivers seem to flow. This conversation was recorded on December 10, 2024, at CX in New York City.🎧 Listen to Horowitz's podcast, ESP is Real, from SpectreVision.🌍 You can support Team Human on Patreon to unlock access to a number of great perks including ad-free episodes of Team Human, access to the Team Human Discord community where w
Announcing Team Human Live in NYC on December 10 with Mitch Horowitz
Join Douglas Rushkoff in conversation with PEN award-winning author, speaker, and narrator Mitch Horowitz for a special Team Human Live on December 10 at CX in New York City.🎟️ You can purchase tickets at this link.🌍 All Team Human Patreon supporters receive complimentary tickets to Team Human Live. You can sign-up now to access the code to reserve tickets. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Greg Epstein "Tech Agnostic"
Harvard & MIT Humanist Chaplain and Author of Tech Agnostic Greg Epstein helps us understand the Silicon Valley religion.In his monologue, Rushkoff reminds us about the importance of mutual aid in our communities and the ways AI and Big Tech are fueling a return to historical norms of inequality.📕 Tech Agnostic: How Technology Became the World's Most Powerful Religion, and Why It Desperately Needs a Reformation by Greg Epstein is now available at your favorite bookseller.This conversation was r
Post-Election Monologue: This Game is Not Reality
Rushkoff reflects on the US election and reminds us how we can center mutual aid and community support to foster resilience.🌍 You can support Team Human on Patreon to unlock access to a number of great perks including ad-free episodes of Team Human, access to the Team Human Discord community, special perks like free tickets to live events, and access to the Rushkoff archive. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Anthony James
Host of The RegenNarration Anthony James makes the case for us to pause long enough for the planet to do its thing.🌱 Learn more about RegenNarration🌍 You can support Team Human on Patreon to unlock access to a number of great perks including ad-free episodes of Team Human, access to the Team Human Discord community, special perks like free tickets to live events, and access to the Rushkoff archive. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Program Or Be Programed: Book Launch Q&A w/ Douglas Rushkoff and Matt Klein
Douglas Rushkoff celebrates the release of Program Or Be Programmed: Eleven Commands For The AI Future in a special Q&A with cultural analyst Matt Klein. Recorded Friday, October 4, 2024.📘 Program Or Be Programmed: Eleven Commands For The AI Future is now available. ✍️ You can keep up with Matt Klein by subscribing to Zine.🌍 You can support Team Human on Patreon to unlock access to a number of great perks including ad-free episodes of Team Human, access to the Team Human Discord community wher
East Forest "Music For Mushrooms"
Musician, composer, and ceremonial accompanist East Forest engages with us on the occasion of the release of the movie about his work, Music For Mushrooms.🍄 Click here to learn more about East Forest and Music For Mushrooms.🌍 You can support Team Human on Patreon to unlock access to a number of great perks including ad-free episodes of Team Human, access to the Team Human Discord community where we record monthly Q&A sessions with Rushkoff, special perks like free tickets to live events, and a
The Stories We Tell Ourselves
Rushkoff argues that we can confront vibe shifts through the stories we tell ourselves.🌍 You can support Team Human on Patreon to unlock access to a number of great perks including ad-free episodes of Team Human, access to the Team Human Discord community where we record monthly Q&A sessions with Rushkoff, special perks like free tickets to live events, and access to the Rushkoff archive. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Rushkoff is Back: Vibing on the Vibe
Rushkoff discusses the vibe shift he has undergone and the ways we can approach situations we can't control with compassion and care.🌍 You can support Team Human on Patreon to unlock access to a number of great perks including ad-free episodes of Team Human, access to the Team Human Discord community where we record monthly Q&A sessions with Rushkoff, special perks like free tickets to live events, and access to the Rushkoff archive. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/p
Martin Winiecki "Water is Love"
Leader of Tamera's Institute for Global Peacework and storyteller behind the new documentary Water is Love Martin Winiecki explains what water wants – and how human beings can facilitate its movement and save our planet for ourselves, and other fellow species.📺 You can watch an excerpt of What Does Water Want? now and attend a free online summit about ecosystem regeneration from August 1-4, 2024.People mentioned in this conversation include: Sepp Holzer, James Lovelock, Vine Deloria Jr., Joanna
Richard Metzger: Magick Show
Occult researcher and Founder of Dangerous Minds Richard Metzger explains why it’s time we leverage the magical sensibilities of popular culture to the pro-human agenda.Support Richard Metzger’s Magick Show: A Masterclass in Modern Occultism featuring Douglas Rushkoff, Grant Morrison, Mitch Horowitz, Jamie Cohen, and many more!🌍 You can support Team Human on Patreon to unlock access to a number of great perks including ad-free episodes of Team Human, access to the Team Human Discord community w
Love and Magick are Our Best Hope
Rushkoff discusses the easiest, funnest, and most likely path to averting apocalypse.🌍 You can support Team Human on Patreon to unlock access to a number of great perks including ad-free episodes of Team Human, access to the Team Human Discord community where we record monthly Q&A sessions with Rushkoff, special perks like free tickets to live events, and access to the Rushkoff archive. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Artificial Creativity
Rushkoff discusses how AI teaches us to distinguish between art and industry.🎟️ Tickets for the Genesis P-Orridge Tribute Concert are now available.🌍 You can support Team Human on Patreon to unlock access to a number of great perks including ad-free episodes of Team Human, access to the Team Human Discord community where we record monthly Q&A sessions with Rushkoff, special perks like free tickets to live events, and access to the Rushkoff archive. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast.
Team Human Special: Live Q&A
Playing for Team Human today, it's Team Human! Rushkoff and artist, animator, and musician Brynna Campbell field questions from the Team Human Discord community about American authoritarianism, post-Covid lockdown education, protests, and AI.🌍 You can support Team Human on Patreon to unlock access to a number of great perks including ad-free episodes of Team Human, access to the Team Human Discord community where we record monthly Q&A sessions with Rushkoff, special perks like free tickets to l
The Speed of the Internet
Rushkoff discusses why he’s breaking from the preferred publishing schedules of advertisers and algorithms in favor of a more considerate approach.🌍 You can support Team Human on Patreon to unlock access to a number of great perks including ad-free episodes of Team Human, access to the Team Human Discord community where we record monthly Q&A sessions with Rushkoff, special perks like free tickets to live events, and access to the Rushkoff archive. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. S
Joanne McNeil
Author Joanne McNeil shares the inspiration for her new novel, Wrong Way, and the profound beauty of human connection.About Joanne McNeilJoanne McNeil is the author of the novel WRONG WAY (2023) and LURKING (2020). She was the inaugural winner of the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Art Foundation's Arts Writing Award for an emerging writer. She has been a resident at Eyebeam, a Logan Nonfiction Program fellow, recipient of the Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant, and an instructor at the School for Poeti
The Secret History and Unwritten Future of Psychedelics and Technology
Dr. Julie Holland, Paul D. Miller (DJ Spooky), Ken Jordan, and Rushkoff discuss the psychedelic origins of the internet the way tech bros want to monopolize psychedelics as an industry. This conversation was recorded at The Athenæum on January 24, 2024.📰 Learn more about Lucid NewsAbout Dr. Julie HollandDr. Julie Holland is an author and psychiatrist/psychopharmacologist. She was formerly a weekend attending physician at Bellevue Hospital’s Psych ER. While now a medical advisor to MAPS, she was
Rushkoff Q&A: Native Ecosystems Live Here
Playing for Team Human today, it's Team Human! Rushkoff responds to questions and comments submitted by Team Human members from our Discord server. It's a test-drive of what we hope to develop into a live call-in show.🌍 You can support Team Human on Patreon to unlock access to a number of great perks including ad-free episodes of Team Human, access to the Team Human Discord community where we record monthly Q&A sessions with Rushkoff, special perks like free tickets to live events, and access t
Astra Taylor & Leah Hunt-Hendrix
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The Model is Not the Territory
Douglas Rushkoff shares why we need to distinguish between models and reality.🌍 You can support Team Human on Patreon to unlock access to a number of great perks including ad-free episodes of Team Human, access to the Team Human Discord community where we record monthly Q&A sessions with Rushkoff, special perks like free tickets to live events, and access to the Rushkoff archive. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
John Oakes
Publisher of Evergreen Review and Author of The Fast John Oakes discusses history and biology of fasting at his book launch event in New York City. Recorded live at The Strand on Thursday, February 15, 2024.About John OakesJohn Oakes is the publisher of The Evergreen Review and co-founder of OR Books, a publishing company recognized as one of “the radical alternatives to conventional publishing” (The Guardian), where he is currently editor-at-large. In his thirty years in publishing, Oakes has w
Mushon Zer-Aviv
Artist, designer, technologist, writer, and Israeli peace activist, Mushon Zer-Aviv shows us why binary partisanship in the Israeli-Palstinian conflict hurts everyone, and what to do about.📕 Your Empathy is Killing Us is now available.About Mushon Zer-AvivMushon Zer-Aviv is a designer, writer, educator and activist based in Tel Aviv. His work often involves mapping and way-finding through physical, digital and political landscapes. These are also the themes he explore in his current research ti
Nathan Schneider
Director of the Media Economies Design Lab and author of Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life., Nathan Schneider shows us how the styles of governance embedded in our online platforms change the way we understand governance in real life.📕 Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life is now available.About Nathan SchneiderNathan Schneider is an assistant professor of media studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he leads the Media Economies Design Lab. His mo
Brian Merchant
Author of The One Device and Blood In The Machine:: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech Brian Merchant shares the lessons learned by the luddites, not an anti-technology movement, but a worker’s rebellion against the way automation was used to crush the underclass.📕 Blood In The Machine:: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech is now available.Keep up with Brian MerchantLinkedIn | Website🌍 You can support Team Human on Patreon to unlock access to a number of great perks includ
Douglas Rushkoff on Duncan Trussell Family Hour
Douglas Rushkoff joined The Duncan Trussell Family Hour on January 15, 2024. 🎙️ Click here to subscribe and support The Duncan Trussell Family Hour🌍 You can support Team Human on Patreon to unlock access to a number of great perks including ad-free episodes of Team Human, access to the Team Human Discord community where we record monthly Q&A sessions with Rushkoff, special perks like free tickets to live events, and access to the Rushkoff archive. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast.
Noah Tsika
Professor of Media Studies at CUNY Queens, author of I’m Not There, and film historian, Noah Tsika exposes us to the brilliance in the most pop of cultural expressions — and help us reclaim the wisdom of our own sensibilities.About Noah TsikaNoah Tsika is a film historian whose work explores the links between moving images and state power in West Africa and North America. His research has addressed, among other topics, the entwinement of film (including nontheatrical film) and public institution
Brendon Lemon
Standup comedian and midwest existentialist Brendon Lemon walks us through the existential abyss, where we find out there’s actually something funny about all this.About Brendan LemonBrendon Lemon is a comedian from Detroit, where he started performing regularly at the famous Comedy Castle at age 16. Two years in he was filmed for the documentary Be Funny which featured Christopher Titus and Mike Green. He moved to Paris in the summer of 2013 to both write and perform stand-up in both French and
Transcendence is for Losers
Douglas Rushkoff discusses why he feels like we’re running away from what matters – or maybe from matter, itself.🌍 You can support Team Human on Patreon to unlock access to a number of great perks including ad-free episodes of Team Human, access to the Team Human Discord community where we record monthly Q&A sessions with Rushkoff, special perks like free tickets to live events, and access to the Rushkoff archive. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more info
Shawn Kittelsen
Vice President, Creative at Skydance Interactive Shawn Kittelsen considers our society in revolt, and how pop media from comic books to video games help us see the choices before us📕 Kittelsen’s new comic, Heart Attack, is now available!About Shawn KittelsenShawn Kittelsen is the Vice President, Creative at Skydance Interactive.🌍 You can support Team Human on Patreon to unlock access to a number of great perks including ad-free episodes of Team Human, access to the Team Human Discord community
Heather Dewey-Hagborg
Transdisciplinary artist and biohacker Heather Dewey-Hagborg shares her latest work on future pigs and hybrids.Keep up with Heather Dewey-HagborgWebsite | InstagramAbout Heather Dewey-HagborgDr. Heather Dewey-Hagborg is a New York-based artist and biohacker who is interested in art as research and technological critique. Her controversial biopolitical art practice includes the project Stranger Visions in which she created portrait sculptures from analyses of genetic material (hair
Rebecca Bray & Rachel Gita Karp
Executive Director of The Center for Artistic Activism Rebecca Bray and Program Director of The Center for Artistic Activism’s Unstoppable Voters Rachel Gita Karp show us how to make activist art with, and for, real communities.🎨 Learn more about The Center for Artistic Activism.About Rebecca BrayRebecca is an artist, educator and interaction designer who is passionate about audiences and engagement, and about creative and experimental approaches. Before joining the Center for Artistic Activism
Covid Speaks like ChatGPT
Douglas Rushkoff discusses what he's learning from Covid about the Internet and other Synthetic Experiences.🌍 You can support Team Human on Patreon to unlock access to a number of great perks including ad-free episodes of Team Human, access to the Team Human Discord community where we record monthly Q&A sessions with Rushkoff, special perks like free tickets to live events, and access to the Rushkoff archive. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informati
In Depth with Douglas Rushkoff - Book TV
Douglas Rushkoff joined CSPAN's Book TV to discuss his career in a wide-ranging conversation with callers. Originally published by CSPAN on October 1, 2023.🌍 You can support Team Human on Patreon to unlock access to a number of great perks including ad-free episodes of Team Human, access to the Team Human Discord community where we record monthly Q&A sessions with Rushkoff, special perks like free tickets to live events, and access to the Rushkoff archive. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on
Kibbitz Room XIII
Playing for Team Human today, it’s Team Human! Douglas Rushkoff hosts the monthly Team Human call-in show from the community Discord server. This conversation was recorded on December 12, 2023.🌍 You can support Team Human on Patreon to unlock access to a number of great perks including ad-free episodes of Team Human, access to the Team Human Discord community where we record monthly Q&A sessions with Rushkoff, special perks like free tickets to live events, and access to the Rushkoff archi
Carne Ross
Former British diplomat, Founder of Independent Diplomat, and author of The Leaderless Revolution Carne Ross introduces us to an anarchist’s vision of economic wellbeing.About Carne RossCarne Ross is a former British diplomat, and Middle East and WMD expert, who resigned in 2004 after giving then-secret evidence to a British inquiry into the Iraq war. After Ross quit, he founded the world’s first non-profit diplomatic advisory group, Independent Diplomat, which advises democratic countries and p
Katherine G. Fry
Media Studies Professor Katherine Fry and author of Dynamic Media Environments Katherine G. Fry helps us see how the media environment in which a story is told may have a lot more to do with how we understand it than we realize.About Katherine FrySince earning her Ph.D., Katherine G. Fry has been teaching and publishing in the areas of media research and criticism, television news, media culture and technology, and media literacy. A Fulbright recipient, she has lectured internationally in Turkey
Demigod Wannabes
Douglas Rushkoff explains the differences between contemporary billionaires and their forebears — and why we should laugh and dismiss their increasingly bizarre behaviors.📰 You can read ‘We will coup whoever we want!’: The unbearable hubris of Musk and the billionaire tech bros now.🌍 You can support Team Human on Patreon to unlock access to a number of great perks including ad-free episodes of Team Human, access to the Team Human Discord community where we record monthly Q&A sessions with Rush
Kibbitz Room XII
Playing for Team Human today, it’s Team Human! Douglas Rushkoff hosts the monthly Team Human call-in show from the community Discord server. This conversation was recorded on October 31, 2023.🌍 You can support Team Human on Patreon to unlock access to a number of great perks including ad-free episodes of Team Human, access to the Team Human Discord community where we record monthly Q&A sessions with Rushkoff, special perks like free tickets to live events, and access to the Rushkoff archiv
Jem Bendell
Former Professor of Sustainability Leadership and author of Breaking Together: A Freedom-Loving Response To Collapse Jem Bendell tells us to stop pretending and learn how to navigate climate change through deep adaptation.About Jem BendellProfessor Jem Bendell is a world-renowned scholar on the breakdown of modern societies due to environmental change. Downloaded over a million times, his Deep Adaptation paper is credited with inspiring the growth of the Extinction Rebellion movement in 2018, an
Nora Bateson
Founder of The International Bateson Institute, filmmaker, educator, and author of Combining Nora Bateson shares the sense, and sensibility, of true interdependence — and helps us muster the courage to embrace ambiguity.About Nora BatesonNora Bateson is an award-winning filmmaker, writer and educator, as well as President of the International Bateson Institute, based in Sweden. Her work asks the question “How we can improve our perception of the complexity we live within, so we may improve our i
Mitch Horowitz - Team Human Live in NYC
Author of Modern Occultism and historian of alternative spirituality Mitch Horowitz helps us launch the sigil that flips the script on civilization, itself. Live music by Steven Brent. This conversation was recorded live in collaboration with Digital Void at Caveat in New York City on Saturday, October 28, 2023.About Mitch HorowitzMitch Horowitz is a historian of alternative spirituality and one of today’s most literate voices of esoterica, mysticism, and the occult. Mitch is a writer-in-residen
Leaving X and Social Media Behind
Douglas Rushkoff explains his decision to leave X, and all social media platforms, behind him in a first-of-its-kind monologue-only episode of Team Human. In his monologue, Rushkoff draws inspiration from Chaucer's Parlement of Foules to discuss how the platform dynamics of X/Twitter are unfit for nuanced discussion about global tragedies and human suffering.🎟️ This Saturday, Oct. 28: Team Human Live returns! Douglas Rushkoff will be in conversation with Mitch Horowitz at Caveat in New York Cit
Rushkoff on TIME's Person of the Week
Douglas Rushkoff was selected to be interviewed for TIME's Person of the Week podcast for a conversation about how human behavior is training AI. Originally publushed Sept. 7, 2023.Keep up with TIME's Person of the WeekPodcast page | Excerpts from Rushkoff's conversation🌍 You can support Team Human on Patreon to unlock access to a number of great perks including an ad-free feed of Team Human beginning June 21, access to the Team Human Discord community where we record monthly Q&A sessions with
Andrea Chalupa
Activist, filmmaker, author, and podcaster behind Gaslit Nation Andrea Chalupa shows us how to muster the courage, tenacity ,and willpower to fight for the willpower we want.About Andrea ChalupaAndrea Chalupa is a journalist, filmmaker, author, and activist. She is the writer and producer of the journalistic thriller Mr. Jones, directed by three-time Academy Award-nominee Agnieszka Holland (Europa Europa; The Secret Garden; House of Cards; The Wire) and starring James Norton, Vanessa Kirby, and
A Message from Douglas
In a pause from our normal weekly release, Rushkoff reminds us not to dehumanize each other. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dennis Yi Tenen
Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and author of the forthcoming Literary Theory For Robots Dennis Yi Tenen shares the hidden history of modern machine intelligence — which has more to do with medieval poetry and Russian folktales than the myths being told by those in Silicon Valley.📕 You can pre-order Dennis Yi Tenen’s new book, Literary Theory For Robots, now.About Dennis Yi TenenDennis Yi Tenen is an associate professor of English and Comparative
Maggie Jackson
Award-winning author and journalist Maggie Jackson shares some of the insights of her new book, Uncertain: The Wisdom and Wonder of Being Unsure.🎙️ In his monologue, Rushkoff advocates for a holistic understanding of life - not just individualized, mechanized processes.📕 You can pre-order Maggie Jackson’s new book, Uncertain: The Wisdom and Wonder of Being Unsure now.About Maggie JacksonMaggie Jackson is an award-winning author and journalist known for her penetrating writings on social trends
Kibbitz Room XI
Playing for Team Human today, it’s Team Human! Douglas Rushkoff hosts the eleventh Team Human call-in show from the community Discord server. This conversation was recorded on Sept. 7, 2023.🎟️ Team Human Live! Join Douglas Rushkoff in conversation with Mitch Horowitz on Saturday, Oct. 28, at Caveat in New York City! Join two award-winning authors for a special live podcast taping, book signing, live music, and social hour. Click here for tickets and livestream.🌍 You can support Team Human
Kevin Slavin
Working at the intersection of science, technology, and culture, Kevin Slavin introduces us to the weird and wonderful world of microbial sensing — and what pandemics can teach us about the game of life.🎙️ In his monologue, Rushkoff discusses the importance of expertise and passion to help us understand each other beyond our utility value.🎟️ Just Announced: Team Human Live! Join Douglas Rushkoff in conversation with Mitch Horowitz on Saturday, Oct. 28, at Caveat in New York City! Join two awar
Naomi Klein
Author and activist Naomi Klein and Douglas Rushkoff talk about her new book, Doppelganger, and take a trip into the mirror world.🎙️ In his monologue, Rushkoff explains how one white supremacist’s rejection of economic common sense stuck.📰 You can read Rushkoff’s monologue, The Tragedy of No Commons, on Medium.📚 You can pre-order Naomi Klein’s book, Doppleganger: A Trip into the Mirror World, now. Keep up with Naomi KleinWebsite | TwitterAbout Naomi KleinNaomi Klein is an award-winning journa
Madeline Ashby
Science fiction author and futurist Madeline Ashby helps us understand why Hollywood’s future belongs to people - not machines.🎙️In his monologue, Rushkoff warns us that spectacle is what prevents us from seeing each other📰 Read Ashby’s Wired piece, Hollywood’s Future Belong to People - Not MachinesKeep up with Madeline AshbyWebsite | TwitterAbout Madeline AshbyMadeline Ashby graduated from the first cohort of the M.Des. in Strategic Foresight and Innovation programme at OCADU in 2011. It
Paul Austin
Founder & CEO of Third Wave and author of Mastering Microdosing Paul Austin helps us make sense of the new landscape of psychedelic therapy and what retrieving our relationship with mycelia may mean for our collective future.🎙️In his monologue, Rushkoff reminds us to embrace the here and now – and to not feed the trolls.📚 Mastering Microdosing: How to Use Sub-Perceptual Psychedelics to Heal Trauma, Improve Performance, and Transform Your Life is now available.🍄 Learn more about Third Wave🌍 Y
Kibbitz Room X
Playing for Team Human today, it’s Team Human! Douglas Rushkoff hosts the ninth Team Human call-in show from the community Discord server. This conversation was recorded on August 01, 2023.Rushkoff fields questions about the differences between creating content for broad audiences and expert communities, the different ways people define capitalism and fascism, the influence of The Social Dilemma, and the role of creatives in amplifying community needs.🌍 You can support Team Human on Patreo
Émile P. Torres
Author of Human Extinction: A History of the Science and Ethics of Annihilation Émile P. Torres talks about TESCREAL- Transhumanism, Extropianism, Singularitarianism, Cosmism, Rationalism, Effective Altruism, and Longtermism.🎙️ In his monologue, Rushkoff wonders if magic is our probable path to a sustainable future.📰 You can read Rushkoff's monologue, Embracing the Impossible, on Medium.About Émile P. TorresÉmile P. Torres’ work over the past decade has centered around a single theme: eschato
David Brin
Scientist, science fiction author, and futurist David Brin shows us how by granting AI’s individuality we can begin to hold them accountable for their actions.🎙️ In his monologue, Rushkoff discusses his struggles with burnout and how he’s working to overcome it.Episode ResourcesGive Every AI a Soul - or ElseVivid TomorrowsAtlas Shrugged: The Hidden Context of the Book and FilmPolemical JudoAbout David BrinDavid Brin is a science fiction author, scientist & transparency/internet security ex
The Life and Thought Crimes of Robert Anton Wilson w/ Gabriel Kennedy
Author of Chapel Perilous: The Life and Thought Crimes of Robert Anton Wilson Gabriel Kennedy walks us through the Chapel Perilous and reminds us how important and essential Wilson’s work is in a world on the brink of conspiratorial madness.🎙️In his monologue, Rushkoff discusses how Robert Anton Wilson modeled uncertainty as a form of play and the long-term implications of Operation Mindfuck.📚 Pre-order Kenedy's Chapel Perilous: The Life and Thought Crimes of Robert Anton Wilson from MIT Press
Rushkoff on TrueAnon: Bloodless Hype Machines
Douglas Rushkoff joined TrueAnon for a conversation about AI hype cycles and human connection in a digital future. Provided as a special bonus for Team Human Podcast supporters. Originally published July 13, 2023. About TrueAnonTrueAnon is a podcast about your enemies made by your friends. Join unlicensed private investigators Liz Franczak, Brace Belden, and Yung Chomsky for a show that will drive you insane.Support TrueAnon on Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/TrueAnonPodSubscribe to TrueAnonApple
Kibbitz Room IX live from the Team Human Apocalypse Bunker
Playing for Team Human today, it’s Team Human! Douglas Rushkoff hosts the ninth Team Human call-in show from the community Discord server. This show was recorded on Friday, June 23, 2023.Rushkoff fields questions about denaturalizing power in comedy, the mainstreaming of unidentified aerial phenomena, and the Musar movement.🌍 You can support Team Human on Patreon to unlock access to a number of great perks including ad-free episodes of Team Human, access to the Team Human Discord community
Nika Roza Danilova
Singer, songwriter, and producer behind Zola Jesus Nika Roza Danilova helps us recognize the power of the arts to reconnect us to the forces of nature.🎙️ In his monologue, Rushkoff explains why older people make more plausible candidates.📰 You can read Rushkoff’s monologue, You Want a Younger President?, on Medium.About Nika Roza DanilovaNika Roza Danilova, known professionally by her stage name Zola Jesus, is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer. Her music has been noted for co
Annie Kelly
QAnon Anonymous collaborator, conspiracy researcher, and postdoctoral researcher Annie Kelly helps us navigate the new landscape of conspiracy theory in a digital age.🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff explains how the quest for empirical evidence can undermine our power.📰 You can read Rushkoff’s monologue, Keep Memes Magical, on Medium.About Annie KellyAnnie Kelly is a Ph.D. student at the University of East Anglia researching the impact of digital cultures on anti-feminism and the far right, and i
Thomas Negovan
Symbolist, curator, creator, and editor of a new version of Caligula Thomas Negovan discusses artistic and spiritual responses to the deadening effects of industrialism.🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff asks us not to give up our local, home-field advantage by fighting for change on a huge abstract level📰 You can read Rushkoff’s monologue, The Scaled Golum, on Medium.📚 Read more about Negovan’s new version of Caligula.🌍 You can support Team Human on Patreon to unlock access to a number of great p
Kibbitz Room VIII live from the Team Human Apocalypse Bunker
Playing for Team Human today, it’s Team Human! Douglas Rushkoff hosts the eighth Team Human call-in show from the community Discord server. This show was recorded on Friday, May 19, 2023.Rushkoff fields questions about how young artists struggle to imagine dream projects, how to use large language models creatively, and the ways we can combat AI doomerism?🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff discusses how AI should be the center of the show – not hidden in the writer’s room.📰 You can read Rushkof
Gary Marcus
Cognitive scientist, social entrepreneur, and author of Rebooting AI Gary Marcus helps us parse between the real and imagined threats of AI, shares his recent experience testifying before Congress, and discusses his plans to intervene on our behalf.🎙️ In his monologue, Rushkoff discusses why tech bro warnings feel more like a coordinated money grab.📰 You can read a written version of Rushkoff’s monologue, AI Panic = AI Hype, on Medium.🌍 You can support Team Human on Patreon to unlock access t
Douglas Rushkoff: I Will Not Be Autotuned - Live from All Tech is Human's Responsible Tech Mixer
Douglas Rushkoff took the stage at All Tech is Human’s Responsible Tech Mixer to explain why he refuses to be autotuned in the face of technosolutionism and the rise AI. Recorded April 26, 2023, at Betaworks in New York City.📺 Click here to watch a video of Rushkoff’s talk.🌎 Learn more about All Tech is HumanWebsite | LinkedIn | YouTube | Slack | Programs | Upcoming Events🌍 Team Human is made possible thanks to the generous support of our listeners on Patreon. Your support will unlock access
Malcolm Harris
Author of Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and The World Malcom Harris helps us understand the history and foundations of the Silicon Valley mindset so we can better respond to its destructive capacity today.🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff discusses how cultivating awe can save the world.📰 You can read Rushkoff’s monologue, How Cultivating Awe Can Save The World, on Medium.📕 Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and The World by Malcolm Harris is now available.📗 Doug Ru
Fenton Bailey
TV Producer and Author of Screenage: How TV Shaped Our Reality From Tammy Faye to RuPaul’s Drag Race Fenton Bailey discusses the nature of the screen and the power it has unleashed for a designer reality.🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff discusses how re-socializing the people can help us change the register.📰 You can read Rushkoff’s monologue, Individual Liberty is No Longer the Goal, on Medium.📕 Screenage: How TV Shaped Our Reality From Tammy Faye to RuPaul’s Drag Race by Fenton Bailey is now av
Kibbitz Room VII live from the Team Human Apocalypse Bunker
Playing for Team Human today, it’s Team Human! Douglas Rushkoff hosts the seventh Team Human call-in show from the community Discord server. This show was recorded on Friday, April 28, 2023.Rushkoff fields questions about how AI will influence art and music production, the differences between artistic and corporate use of AI, and overcoming fear. 🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff discusses how AIs are trained to imitate, amplify, and accelerate human behavior — and why that means humans need to
Rex Weyler
Cofounder of Greenpeace and writer of the Deep Green column Rex Weyler helps us transcend the idea that we can fix the environment – or anything else – so we can finally learn to participate as members of a living world.🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff discusses how re-socializing people can help us change the register. 📰 You can read Rushkoff’s monologue, Individual Liberty is No Longer the Goal, on Medium.About Rex WeylerRex Weyler is a writer and ecologist. His books include Blood of the Land,
Claire Leibowicz, Justin Hendrix, John Borthwick, and Douglas Rushkoff - live at Betaworks
Head of the AI and Media Integrity Program at the Partnership on AI (PAI) Claire Leibowicz, Tech Policy Press CEO and Editor Justin Hendrix, Betaworks CEO John Borthwick, and Douglas Rushkoff come up with guiding principles for the future of artificial intelligence on a live panel discussion recorded at Betaworks on Monday, April 3.🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff announces a new MA program in Media Arts and Performance, for community-minded artist, media activists, and performers.📰 You can read R
Marina Gorbis & Jerry Davis
Executive Director of the Institute for the Future Marina Gorbis and Institute for the Future Equitable Enterprise Initiative Advisor Jerry Davis discuss how to change the register from industrial values to collaborative commerce.🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff explains how denaturalizing power reveals the constructed landscape.📰 You can read a written version of Rushkoff’s monologue, If it Ain’t Real, Don’t Fix it, on Medium.About Marina GorbisMarina Gorbis is Executive Director of the Inst
Alissa Quart
Executive Director of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and author of Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream Alissa Quart helps us dispel the myth of the self-made man once and for all.🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff explains why he believes we’ve hit peak billionaire mindset.📖 Alissa Quart’s book, Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream, is now available.About Alissa Quart:Alissa Quart is the author of five acclaimed books of nonfiction including the
Kibbitz Room V live from the Team Human Apocalypse Bunker
Playing for Team Human today, it’s Team Human! Douglas Rushkoff hosts the sixth Team Human call-in show from the community Discord server. This show was recorded on Friday, February 17, 2023.Rushkoff fields questions about virtual reality’s potential to transform storytelling, what it means to be punk, and how artists can navigate recent tech layoffs.🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff discusses four interventions in the human machine he plans to explore with the Institute for the Future.🌍 Team
Alex Holland
Journalist, Tea Pub operator, and Founder of SolarPunk Stories Alex Holland helps us learn to tell better and more constructive stories about our collective future.🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff explains how AI can be compared to the Conquistadors.📰 You can read a written version of Rushkoff’s monologue, How We Taught Technology to Program Humans, on Medium.📕 Read Sell the SizzleAbout Alex Holland:Alex has worked as a journalist in the UK, Venezuela and India, started and led the campaign to st
Jeff Emmett
Co-founder of the Commons Stack and Token Engineering researcher at BlockScience Jeff Emmett tells us about the wonders of mycelia - and why we may all want to start considering ourselves mycopunks.🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff explains how the only answer to more tech is more human investment📰 You can read a written version of Rushkoff’s monologue, How to Grade Papers Written by AI, on Medium.🍄 Learn more about Mycopunk PrinciplesAbout Jeff Emmett:Jeff Emmett is a Token Engineering research
Micah Sifry
Organizer, The Connector journalist, and author of The Big Disconnect Micah Sifry helps us evaluate how directly we need to be involved in political activism to keep democracy sustainable.🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff shares a story about how the universe winked at him, and why he thinks we’ll all be okay.📰 You can read a written version of Rushkoff’s monologue, Magic is Real, on Medium.Keep up with Micah Sifry:The Connector | Mastodon | Twitter🌍 Team Human is made possible thanks to the gener
Kibbitz Room V live from the Team Human Apocalypse Bunker
Playing for Team Human today, it’s Team Human! Douglas Rushkoff hosts the fifth Team Human call-in show from the community Discord server. This show was recorded on Friday, January 20, 2023.Rushkoff fields questions about how AI will change the educational landscape, the worldviews that emerged from 1950s speculative fiction, and why media ecology never took off in Europe.🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff invites us to welcome the unpredictable.📰 You can read a written version of Rushkoff’s mo
Jessamyn West
Library technologist, owner of MetaFilter, and author of Without a Net: Librarians Bridging the Digital Divide, Jessamyn West shares the joys of hands-on technology education in the public library - and how modeling behavior may just work better than scaling it.🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff discusses how to grade papers written by AI.📰 You can read a written version of Rushkoff’s monologue, How to Read Papers Written By AI, on Medium.📕 Learn more about West’s book, Without a Net: Librarians Br
Mitch Horowitz
Playing for Team Human today, historian of alternative spirituality and author of Uncertain Places: Essays on Occult and Outsider Experiences, Mitch Horowitz helps us figure out if we’re praying to the wrong gods.🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff discusses the real and imagined dangers of artificial intelligence.📰 You can read a written version of Rushkoff’s monologue, The Medium is the Message, on Medium.About Mitch Horowitz:Mitch Horowitz is a historian of alternative spirituality and one of toda
Infectious Altruism - Holiday Special
In a special holiday message, Rushkoff imagines a world where infectious - not effective - altruism is the goal of communities.🙏 Thank you to everyone who supported Team Human this year. We wish you a safe, healthy, and happy holiday season.🌍 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 bonus content from the Rushkoff archive on our Team Human Team Feed. Get bonus content on Patreo
Kibbitz Room IV live from the Team Human Apocalypse Bunker
Playing for Team Human today, it’s Team Human! Douglas Rushkoff hosts the fourth Team Human call-in show from the community Discord server.Rushkoff fields questions about how his views on internet privacy have evolved over the last two decades, the different sensibilities of young generations, and his recent writing.🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff discusses the changes he would make to Twitter if he became CEO of the platform.📰 You can read a written version of Rushkoff’s monologue, If I Wer
Molly White
Software engineer, computer scientist, and creator of Web3 Is Going Just Great Molly White helps us determine whether Web3 is really going just great for humanity — and helps us figure out how much skepticism to have about the blockchain. 🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff discusses how 2022 was the year tech bro lunacy was exposed.📰 You can read a written version of Rushkoff’s monologue, The Year Tech Bro Lunacy Was Exposed, on Medium.Keep up with Molly White:Website | Web3 is Going Great | Twitter
Eric Zimmerman
Game Designer and author of The Rules We Break: Lessons in Play, Thinking, and Design, Eric Zimmerman helps us discover how learning to play can keep us from being played.🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff discusses longtermism, metamodernism, and optimizing Twitter for a post-human future.📰 You can read a written version of Rushkoff’s monologue, What’s a Meta For? - part two, on Medium.Keep up with Eric Zimmerman:Website | Twitter🌍 Team Human is made possible thanks to the generous suppo
Noah Hutton
Writer and director of documentary and narrative films Noah Hutton helps us recognize the power and perfection in what might otherwise be considered our failings and mistakes.🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff discusses big tech’s search for the ultimate escape hatch.📰 You can read a written version of Rushkoff’s monologue, What’s a Meta For? - part one, on Medium.Keep up with Noah Hutton:Website | Twitter | Instagram🌍 Team Human is made possible thanks to the generous support of our list
Cory Doctorow
Journalist and author of Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back , Cory Doctorow shares his latest thoughts on the ways the economy and creativity are being hacked by the perpetrators of chokepoint capitalism.🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff discusses how Elon Musk may have undermined both authoritarianism and his hopes for a techno-monarchy.📰 You can read Rushkoff’s monologue, How Elon Upstaged Trump, on Medium.📖 Chok
Surviving Apocalyptic Economics w/ Cory Doctorow and Rebecca Giblin - Live from Ottawa International Writers Festival
Douglas Rushkoff joins Cory Doctorow and Rebecca Giblin, authors of Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back, for a special panel recorded live from Ottawa International Writers Festival on October 24, 2022.📖 Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back is now available.📕 Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires is now available whe
Greg Barris
Comedian and Creator of the Deep Healing Podcast Greg Barris shares the open secret to collective healing: Laughing together.🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff shares the real promise of shared virtual realities📰 You can read a written version of Rushkoff’s monologue, Now You See What I Mean, on Medium.🎧 Learn more about Deep Healing with Greg Barris.For more about Greg BarrisTwitter | Instagram🌍 Team Human is made possible thanks to the generous support of our listeners on Patreon. Your support w
In Celebration of Speculative Fiction: 22 Ideas About The Future Book Launch w/ Eva Pascoe, Stephen Oram, and Benjamin Greenaway
Douglas Rushkoff joins author Stephen Oram, editor Benjamin Greenaway, and cofounder of Cyberia Eva Pascoe for a special conversation about speculative fiction in celebration of the release of CyberSalon’s 22 Ideas About The Future. How does speculative fiction help us reveal truths we may have hidden from ourselves? 🎙 This conversation was recorded live from London’s Newspeak House on Thursday, September 29, 2022.📕 Learn more about 22 Ideas About The Future, available now.🌍 Team Human is ma
Kibbitz Room III live from the Team Human Apocalypse Bunker
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 Human is made possible thanks to the generous support of our listeners on Patreon. Your support will u
Clinton Ignatov
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 monologue, How Capitalism Makes Us Less Safe, on Medium.For more about Clinton IgnatovTwitter | Webs
Sherry Turkle
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 of intimacy and quest for domination fueling so many of their exploits.🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff r
Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires - Twitter Spaces w/ Adrienne Gibbs
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 bonus content from the Rushkoff archive on the Team Human Team Feed. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on A
Jenny Odell
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 investigations about why we do what we do with technology. For more about Jenny Odell:Website | Twitter | How
Survival of the Richest
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.🌍 Team Human is made possible thanks to the generous support of our listeners on Patreon. Your support will
Paris Marx
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 Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong About the Future of Transportation is now available wherever book
Marc Brickman
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 Brickman:Instagram | Website🌍 Team Human is made possible thanks to the generous support of our liste
Janelle Orsi
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.📰 You can read a written version of Rushkoff’s monologue, That Queasy Feeling, on Medium. 🌍 Team Hum
Kibbitz Room II live from the Team Human Apocalypse Bunker
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, 2022.You can participate in the next live Kibbitz room inside the virtual Apocalypse Bunker on Fri
Conner Habib
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 Costs a Lot, on Medium.🌍 Team Human is made possible thanks to the generous support of our listeners on
Éliane Ubalijoro & David Jensen
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 Picture, Change Reality, on Medium.🌍 Team Human is made possible thanks to the generous support of our
Kibbitz Room live from the Virtual Apocalypse Bunker
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 Web3 for decentralized or cooperative governance. Recorded July 1, 2022.You can participate in the
Philip Rosedale
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 possible thanks to the generous support of our listeners on Patreon. Your support will unlock access t
Philip Rosedale
Founder of Second Life and High Fidelity Labs 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 possible thanks to the generous support of our listeners on Patreon. Your support will unlock access to our Discord co
Lisa Lovebucket
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 possible thanks to the generous support of our listeners on Patreon. Your support will unlock access to our D
Nick Kroll
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 generous support of our listeners on Patreon. Your support will unlock access to our Discord community an
A Closer Look at Cyberia (KOPB, 1994) - Preview
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 interview, as well as...👉 The Team Human "Team Feed" featuring conversations with Timothy Leary, Terrence M
Micah Sifry
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 to the generous support of our listeners on Patreon. Your support will unlock access to our Discord com
Cyberia @ Powell's Books (1994) - Preview
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 McKenna, Joanna Harcourt-Smith, David Lynch, and more.👉 Discounts and free admission to live events.👉 Access to Team Human
Sue Thomas
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 Thomas’ book: Nature and Wellbeing in a Digital Age: How to Feel Better Without Logging Off. 🌍 Team Hum
Special Announcement: Survival of the Richest
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 Billionaires, on Medium.🌍 Become a contributing supporter for as little as $2 per month. You’ll instan
Neşe Devenot and David Nickles
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 of Rushkoff's monologue, Avoiding the Power Trip, on Medium.🎧 Listen to Cover Story: Power Trip fro
Cyber Salon 2002 - Preview
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 conversations with Timothy Leary, Terrence McKenna, Joanna Harcourt-Smith, David Lynch, and more.👉 Discount
Hannah Close
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 to our Discord community, exclusive bonus content from the Rushkoff archive on our Team Human Team Feed, a
Judaism as an Approach to Media and Society - Nothing Sacred Interview Preview
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 Leary, Terrence McKenna, Joanna Harcourt-Smith, David Lynch, and more.👉 Discounts and free admission to live e
Ari Wallach
Founder and Director of Longpath and author of the upcoming book, Longpath: Becoming the Great Ancestors Our Future Needs, Ari Wallach discusses the fundamentally human need to belong, and how it will determine our collective chances for survival.🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff stakes his future on the solidarity of the people over the cynicism of the elite.📰 You can read Rushkoff’s monologue, Open Up: The Refugees are Coming, on Medium.🌍 Team Human is made possible thanks to the generous suppor
Douglas Rushkoff "There's No Such Thing as Content" - Trend Day Keynote Preview
Here's an excerpt from a keynote talk Rushkoff delivered at Trend Day 2002, an annual conference presented by Der Spiegel. Rushkoff discusses how the advent of interactivity has rendered the main means of communication obsolete and why corporations feel threatened by people creating and enjoying their own content.🌍 Become a contributing supporter for as little as $2 per month. You’ll instantly gain access to this conversation, as well as...👉 The Team Human "Team Feed" featuring conversations w
Mark Stahlman
President of the Center for the Study for Digital Life Mark Stahlman explains East, West, and Digital, the three spheres he believes are shaping the future of civilization, and how understanding the way they interact can help us strategize a way forward for humans.🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff explains why he’s not an optimist anymore.📰 You can read a written version of Rushkoff’s monologue, I’m Not an Optimist, on Medium.📺 Watch Stahlman’s East, West, and Digital seminar series presented by
Douglas Rushkoff "Religion As Open-Source Proposition" - Preview
Here's an excerpt from a keynote talk Rushkoff delivered at the Silicon Alley Jewish Center in the early-2000s. Rushkoff explores the tenants of Judaism to learn if they can be applied to surveillance technology.🌍 Become a contributing supporter for as little as $2 per month. You’ll instantly gain access to this conversation, as well as...👉 The Team Human "Team Feed" featuring conversations with Timothy Leary, Terrence McKenna, Joanna Harcourt-Smith, David Lynch, and more.👉 Discounts and free
Laurie Segall
Journalist, founder of Dot Dot Dot Media, and author of Special Characters: My Adventures with Tech's Titans and Misfits, Laurie Segall tells us what it’s like to interview people like Mark Zuckerberg, and why she holds out faith that their humanity may still rule the day. 🎙 In his monologue, discusses what we can do within our communities to help contribute to global crises.🌍 Team Human is made possible thanks to the generous support of our listeners on Patreon. Your support will unlock acces
David McRaney
Science journalist and author of the forthcoming book, How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion, David McRaney explores the circumstances under which minds can change - and what it means for all of us.🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff argues for the broad spectrum of reasons why humanity might have a special place in our universe.📚 You can pre-order David’s new book, How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion, now. Get bonus conten
Douglas Rushkoff "Hidden Potential" - GEL 2006 Preview
Here's an excerpt of a talk Rushkoff delivered at Good Experience Live (GEL) 2006 about how hidden potential is wasted potential.🌍 Become a contributing supporter for as little as $2 per month. You’ll instantly gain access to this conversation, as well as...👉 The Team Human "Team Feed" featuring conversations with Timothy Leary, Terrence McKenna, Joanna Harcourt-Smith, David Lynch, and more.👉 Discounts and free admission to live events.👉 Access to Team Human's community Discord.👉 Access to
Vicki Robin
Author of Your Money or Your Life and Blessing the Hands That Feed Us Vicki Robin explains what it means to be a town cryer - and how to maintain our friendships and civil interdependence.🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff shares how he is finding success by diving in and experiencing the world head-on rather than avoiding it.🌍 Team Human is made possible thanks to the generous support of our listeners on Patreon.Learn more about Vicki’s books:📚 Blessing the Hands That Feed Us | Your Money or Your
Douglas Rushkoff "Open-Source Reality" - Preview
Here's an excerpt of a talk Rushkoff delivered at the 2001 Reboot Conference in Denmark where he argues for alternate approaches to Silicon Valley's tech development.🌍 Become a contributing supporter for as little as $2 per month. You’ll instantly gain access to this conversation, as well as...👉 The Team Human "Team Feed" featuring conversations with Timothy Leary, Terrence McKenna, Joanna Harcourt-Smith, David Lynch, and more.👉 Discounts and free admission to live events.👉 Access to Team Hu
Divya Siddarth
Political economist and social technologist at Microsoft, and a researcher at the RadicalxChange Foundation, Divya Siddarth introduces us to The Pluriverse and challenges us to consider just how many worlds are possible. 🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff reminds us that our happiness does not need to be tied to our aspirations. 📰 Read A Declaration of the Interdependence of Cyberspace🌍 Team Human is made possible thanks to the generous support of our listeners on Patreon. Get bonus content on Patr
Renee Hobbs
Founder of the Media Education Lab and author of Mind Over Media: Propaganda Education for a Digital Age Renee Hobbs joins Rushkoff to discuss how the enlightenment project can work without gatekeepers.🎙In his monologue, Rushkoff wrestles with his decision to focus on local civics as the influence of national culture wars seep in.📚 Renee’s book, Mind Over Media: Propaganda Education for a Digital Age, is now available.🌍 Team Human is made possible thanks to the generous support of our listene
Jamie Cohen
Head of Education at Digital Void and cultural theorist Jamie Cohen walks us through — and hopefully to the other side — of our fascist media environment. 🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff argues that the culture wars on Twitter and television are not based in reality, but rhetoric.📰 You can read a written version of Rushkoff’s monologue, Move Along: The Car Crash is Fake, now on Medium.🌍 Team Human is made possible thanks to the generous support of our listeners on Patreon.Keep up with Jamie:🐦 T
Maggie McGuane
Mass casualty animal rescuer Maggie McGuane shares the exhilarating joy of being part of the life force that is our planet.🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff explores how he’s embracing compassion of the moment.🐾 Learn more about Wings of Rescue: https://wingsofrescue.org/🌍 Team Human is made possible thanks to the generous support of our listeners on Patreon. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Alex Kazemi - Preview
Here's a preview of this week's bonus episode featuring author of Pop Magick: A Guide to Bending Your Reality Alex Kazemi in conversation with Douglas Rushkoff. Kazemi explores how to restore autonomy, agency, and connection with the others.🌍 Become a contributing supporter for as little as $2 per month. You’ll instantly gain access to this conversation, as well as...👉 The Team Human "Team Feed" featuring conversations with Timothy Leary, Terrence McKenna, Joanna Harcourt-Smith, David Lynch, a
Stuart Swezey
Founder of Amok Books and producer of the documentary Desolation Center Stuart Swezey helps us remember what it’s like to do something for its own sake, and stop before it becomes something else.🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff reminds us of the work involved in producing social media content, and the real downsides of being on 24/7.📰 You can read a written version of his monologue, We Are Not Alone on Medium. 🎥 Learn more about Desolation Center at the official documentary website.🌍 Team Human
Cristian Movila - Preview
Here's a preview of Douglas Rushkoff's conversation cristian movila, founder of the original UNFINISHED festival and arts, culture, and technology gathering. Rushkoff explores his digital, cyberpunk roots.🌍 Become a contributing supporter for as little as $2 per month. You’ll instantly gain access to this conversation, as well as...👉 The Team Human "Team Feed" featuring conversations with Timothy Leary, Terrence McKenna, Joanna Harcourt-Smith, David Lynch, and more.👉 Discounts and free admiss
David Zweig
Writer, lecturer, and musician David Zweig explores how we must embrace nuance in scientific arguments in order to break away from binary thinking — and, ultimately, earn public trust.🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff remembers his late accountant, Sheldon Gordon, and how we can morally blend together our economic and social lives.🌍 Team Human is made possible thanks to the generous support of our listeners on Patreon. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more inf
Greg Barris - Preview
Here’s a special preview of comedian Greg Barris in conversation with Doulgas Rushkoff. Rushkoff and Barris discuss Barris’ research into Immanuel Velikovsky’s theories of worlds in collision.🎟 You can see Barris at his Deep Healing show at Union Hall in New York City on January 19, 2022. Tickets are available here.🌍 Become a contributing supporter for as little as $2 per month. You’ll instantly gain access to this conversation, as well as...👉 The Team Human "Team Feed" featuring conversatio
Ryan George
Actor, writer, and media philosopher Ryan George helps us contend with the absurdity of our particular instance in the multiverse.🎙In his monologue, Rushkoff ponders what Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse means for our humanity.📰 You can read a written version of Rushkoff’s monologue on CNN.Follow Ryan George:🎥 YouTube | 🐦 Twitter | 📸 Instagram🌍 Team Human is made possible thanks to the generous support of our listeners on Patreon. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/priv
Unfinished Live "A Better Web is Possible: How Do We Make it Happen?" - Preview
Here's a special preview of the panel "A Batter Web is Possible: How Do We Make it Happen?" featuring Founder of Cyber Collective Tazin Khan Norelius, Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council Katherine Maher, Associate Political Economist and Social Technologist at Microsoft and RadicalXChange, Divya Siddarth, and Douglas Rushkoff. Live from Unfinished on September 24, 2021.🌍 Become a contributing supporter for as little as $2 per month. You’ll instantly gain access to this conversati
xiaowei r. wang - Live from Unfinished Live
Author of Blockchain Chicken Farm and creative director at Logic Magazine Xiaowei Wang helps us contend with the fact that social trust simply may not be something that can scale.🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff asks why we should create solutions “at scale” if operating at scale, itself, is the problem.📰 You can read a written version of Rushkoff’s monologue, Exponential Tech Doesn’t Serve Social Good, on Medium.📖 Blockchain Chicken Farm by Xiaowei Wang is now available at your favorite indie b
Amber Case Twitter Spaces - Preview
Here’s a special preview of cyborg anthropologist Amber Case's Twitter Spaces event with Douglas Rushkoff. Originally recorded October 6, 2021.🌍 Become a contributing supporter for as little as $2 per month. You’ll instantly gain access to:👉 The Team Human "Team Feed" featuring conversations with Timothy Leary, Terrence McKenna, Joanna Harcourt-Smith, David Lynch, and more.👉 Access to Team Human's community Discord.👉 Access to Team Human Salons featuring live conversations with Rushkoff.👉 B
Ryan Broderick
Garbage Day journalist and host of the Content Mines Podcast Ryan Broderick brings us up-to-date on the current state of meme play.🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff explores how the World Wide Web flattened a meta-community of digital nomads.📰 You can read a written version of Rushkoff's monologue, Did the Homepage Kill the Internet?, on Medium.🌍 Team Human is made possible thanks to the generous support of our listeners on Patreon.Follow Ryan Broderick🐦 Twitter | 📸 Instagram | 📰 Garbage Day |
Sarah Pessin - Preview (2021 Salon)
Here’s a special preview of Professor of Philosophy and Jewish Thought at the University of Denver Sarah Pessin's live salon with Douglas Rushkoff from a special Team Human Salon live from Team Human’s Discord community. Originally recorded September 3, 2021.🌍 Become a contributing supporter for as little as $2 per month. You’ll instantly gain access to:👉 The Team Human "Team Feed" featuring conversations with Timothy Leary, Terrence McKenna, Joanna Harcourt-Smith, David Lynch, and more.👉 Acc
Ellen Pearlman
New media artist, curator, writer, and creator of, Noor: A Brain Opera, the world’s first immersive interactive brain opera, Ellen Pearlman brings us where no machine can go: Into the last soft, squishy recesses of human experience still inaccessible to our robot overlords. 🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff reminds us about the importance of reducing our exposure to the global information onslaught.📚You can read the written version of Rushkoff’s monologue, “Turning off the "News"” on Medium.🌍 Team
The Yes Men on Newsmax - Preview
Here’s a special preview of The Yes Men’s Andy Bichlbaum in conversation with Rushkoff explaining how he was invited to return to Newsmax as “Paul Wolfowitz” — and what happened on the air. The Yes Men’s Originally recorded September 11, 2021.Become a contributing supporter for as little as $2 per month. You’ll instantly gain access to:👉 The Team Human "Team Feed" featuring conversations with Timothy Leary, Terrence McKenna, Joanna Harcourt-Smith, David Lynch, and more.👉 Access to Team Human's
Richard Heinberg
Author of Power: Limits and Prospects for Human Survival and senior fellow-in-residence Post Carbon Institute fellow Richard Heinberg shares the simple truth that power has a lot less to do with what you’re granted or what you have than what you do. 🎙In his monologue, Rushkoff explores the opportunity we have to confront the realities of climate change now that its effects are here. “But now that the effects of our own activity are upon us, we have no more power to mitigate them than the toddle
R. U. Sirius (1993) - Preview
Founding editor of High Frontiers, Reality Hackers, and Mondo 2000, R. U. Sirius and Douglas Rushkoff discuss Mondo 2000's cultural influence, memes, and how to create a fool proof media virus. This is a special preview of a conversation recorded in 1993.Become a contributing supporter for as little as $2 per month. You’ll instantly gain access to:👉 The Team Human "Team Feed" featuring conversations with Timothy Leary, Terrence McKenna, Joanna Harcourt-Smith, David Lynch, and more.👉 Acces
Irwin Kula
President of the National Jewish Center for Leading and Leadership, author of Yearnings: Embracing the Sacred Messiness of Life, and seventh-generation rabbi Irwin Kula brings us through a spiritual journey in the desert — and may just show us the strength to stay there in the in-between.🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff explains his hope that blockchains and cryptocurrencies can become something other than another asset class for a generation of traders. “Our marketplaces should never be in service
Special Report: Yes Men's Andy Bichlbaum Pranks Newsmax
On this Team Human special report, The Yes Men’s Andy Bichlbaum explains how he duped Newsmax into letting an imposter former Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz discuss his regret for the Afghanistan War for 11 minutes!📖 Read The YesLab’s report: “War is all we’ve got // How to invent a great conservative talking point” for a full behind-the-curtain story.🐦 Follow The Yes Men on Twitter🎧 Andy previously appeared on Team Human Ep. 05 “Playful Resistance”🌍 Team Human is made possible than
Sarah Pessin
Professor of Philosophy and Jewish Thought at the University of Denver Sarah Pessin helps us learn to treasure the great human in-between. The living, delightfully incomplete, and always never-quite-thereness of our collective human journey.🎙In his monologue, Rushkoff discusses how epidemiologists are stuck in a real-time feedback loop with public health — and the importance of cutting people slack.📚You can read the written version of his monologue, Why the CDC Should Have Never Gotten Involve
Jeremy Lent Salon - Preview
Author of The Web of Meaning and The Patterning Instinct, Jeremy Lent joins Douglas Rushkoff for a special Team Human Salon live from Team Human’s Discord community. Here’s a sneak preview of their conversation. Originally recorded August 6, 2021.Become a contributing supporter for as little as $2 per month. You’ll instantly gain access to:👉 The Team Human "Team Feed" featuring conversations with Timothy Leary, Terrence McKenna, Joanna Harcourt-Smith, David Lynch, and more.👉 Access to Tea
Naomi Klein
Author and activist Naomi Klein engages with Rushkoff on media and society on the occasion of winning the Media Ecology Association’s Neil Postman award for career achievement in public intellectual activity. How is narrative in peril? Rushkoff and Klein explain how ecology can help provide a grand narrative.🎙In his monologue, Rushkoff makes the case to enact a Gentle Awakening for our loved ones who have become addicted to conspiracy fever. 🌎 Begin supporting Team Human on Patreon today for
John Perry Barlow - Preview
Cofounder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, lyricist for the Grateful Dead, and psychedelic hero John Perry Barlow (1947-2018) and Rushkoff discuss the the War on Drugs and the widespread fear of computers in a conversation recorded circa 1992. Here, Barlow introduces Rushkoff to the phrase “cultural immune response,” which later served as inspiration for 1995’s Media Virus. For as little as $2 per month, you’ll instantly gain access to:👉 The Team Human "Team Feed" featuring conversat
Jeremy Lent
Author of The Patterning Instinct and The Web of Meaning, Jeremy Lent helps us see through to the meaning that informs our science so that it can be used to embrace the paradox of our existence, rather than reducing it down to a form suitable only for exploitation.In his monologue, Rushkoff explores how well-natured attempts to improve language will almost always fall short because of the underlying structure of the language we use. “We must also accept that language is just another medium that
Heather Dewey-Hagborg + Joerg Blumtritt "An Oral History of the Internet" (Preview)
Here’s a sneak preview of this week’s Team Human Patreon-exclusive bonus content: Rushkoff, information artist and bio-hacker Heather Dewey-Hagborg, and visiting Assistant Professor of Practice of Interactive Media Joerg Blumtritt participate in ‘An Oral History of the Internet’. Rushkoff shares his early experience of the internet how the internet has changed over time. This project was sponsored by the NYUAD Art Gallery and the NYUAD Institute. Originally recorded June 9, 2021.🌍 You can
Nate Hagens
Co-Founder & Director of the Institute for the Study of Energy & Our Future, Nate Hagens deconstructs some of our deeply held beliefs about climate change and offers us a few dangerous and inexpensive ways to keep our species sustainably happy. How can we learn to live with less?📺 Watch Nate Hagens’ Earth and Humanity: Myth and Reality Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Tyson Yunkaporta in High Fidelity - Patreon Special (Preview)
Here's a preview of this week's bonus episode: Sand Talk author Tyson Yunkaporta joins Douglas Rushkoff in Team Human's High Fidelity spatial audio room for a special salon. Team Human teammates were granted a special opportunity to join live. Originally recorded on May 8, 2021. You can gain full access to this conversation by becoming a supporter today at: patreon.com/teamhuman Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Duncan Trussell
Comedian, composer, contemporary buddhist, and host of the Duncan Trussell Family Hour Duncan Trussell and Rushkoff travel far and wide through spirituality and synchronicity to help us discover what it means to be truly human, together. Is the hope that life — and conversations, themselves — continue after death? How can humans grapple with the Buddhist belief of truly learning to let go of “the dream”? Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Ode to Robert Anton Wilson - The Stoa (Preview)
Here's a preview of this week's Team Human bonus content: A talk Rushkoff gave about the late Robert Anton WIlson and his notion of the chapel perilous. Rushkoff shares the story of the first time he met RAW and why RAW believed a skeptic's worldview isn't safer than any other worldview. This talk includes a conversation with The Stoa's Rebecca Fox and Peter Limberg. Recorded March 2021. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Alexander Stern
Writer, philosopher, and author of The Fall of Language, Alex Stern helps us distinguish who we are from what we tweet. Further, he explores how enlightenment values end up turning into their opposite — and why the word “fascism” can be a barrier to understanding culture. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Bruce Sterling - Patreon Special (~1990)
Here's a special preview of science fiction author Bruce Sterling's conversation with Douglas Rushkoff circa 1990. Sterling had just co-written The Difference Engine with William Gibson. This conversation was recorded in part to research for Rushkoff's Cyberia.Support now for as little as $2 per month to gain full access to this conversation and Team Human's special patrons-only Team Feed at Patreon.com/TeamHuman. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy
Arthur Jones & Giorgio Angelini "Feels Good Man"
Feels Good Man filmmakers Arthur Jones and Giorgio Angelini show us how a great meme can go bad — and how to take it back again.Rushkoff, Angelini, and Jones explore the evolution of Matt Furie’s Pepe the Frog from stoner frog to alt-right meme. When did internet culture became real-world culture? How did a community of trolls who wanted to manipulate reality end up effecting physical space? When was the moment that fan fiction became mainstream?In his monologue, Rushkoff addresses the cycle of
Ken Jordan - Patreon Special (2009)
Here's a special preview of Reality Sandwich Co-Founder and Editorial Director of Lucid News Ken Jordan and Douglas Rushkoff's conversation from WFMU's The Media Squat. Jordan explains how cultural change works, the 2012 prophecy, and art's role in giving voice to the unspoken. Originally aired June 22, 2009.Support now for as little as $2 per month to gain full access to this conversation and Team Human's special patrons-only Team Feed at Patreon.com/TeamHuman. Get bonus content
Ela Minus
Musician and composer Ela Minus introduces us to her acts of rebellion and shows us how music can help us find the others against all efforts to prevent it. Minus’ new album, Acts of Rebellion is streaming everywhere now.In his monologue, Rushkoff explores how robots can help us appreciate and understand what it means to be human. "You need the next medium in order to understand the value of the medium that you’re in.” Rushkoff says. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/pr
Yes Men - Patreon Special (2009)
Here's a special preview of The Yes Men's conversation with Rushkoff from an episode of WFMU's The Media Squat in 2009. Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno discuss their 2009 film The Yes Men Fix The World, how they measure success, and bias against situationist-style media pranking. Originally aired August 3, 2009.Support now for as little as $2 per month to gain full access to this conversation and Team Human's special patrons-only Team Feed at Patreon.com/TeamHuman. Get bonus content on Patreon H
Luke Burgis
Entrepreneur and author of Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life Luke Burgis shares the reasons behind Silicon Valley's obsession with the philosophies of former Stanford Professor René Girard and whether we can ever transcend the human impulse of wanting to be like someone else. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
danah boyd - Patreon Special (2009)
danah boyd is a Partner Researcher a Microsoft Research, the founder and president of Data & Society, and a visiting professor at New York University. In this conversation from 2009, Rushkoff and boyd discuss how Myspace was turning into a "digital ghetto" as Facebook was becoming the dominant social media platform. Further, boyd explores the digital practices of underrepresented populations.You can access the full conversation now by becoming a contributing supporter at patreon.com/teamhum
Frank Brodhead
Author and lifelong community and climate activist Frank Brodhead helps us transform our rage and despair into hope and action. Why is environmentally-friendly policy never the focal point of political leadership? “I think so much of local politics has to do with maintaining the resale value of people’s main asset, that’s their home. The last thing that responsible political leadership is to maintain a stable climate.” Frank says. Even in the face of despair, Frank provides reason for us to keep
David Pescovitz (2009) - Patreon Special
David Pescovitz is a former research director at Institute for the Future and a former editor at Boing Boing and Wired Magazine. Rushkoff and Pescovitz explore the characteristics of innovative people, simulation theory, and the importance of wonder in a conversation originally aired on WFMU's The Media Squat. You can access the full conversation now by becoming a contributing supporter at patreon.com/teamhuman. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informa
Kenya (Robinson)
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. Civics is helping other people." He also proposes people use non-fungible tokens to critique the art market.
Xeni Jardin - Patreon Special
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, Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Tyson Yunkaporta
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? Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dennis McKenna (1992) - Patreon Special
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/teamhuman Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Cyberia Reunion in High Fidelity (feat. R. U. Sirius, Jody Radzik, Ani Phyo., and Nick Philip)
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. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Aleister & Adolf: Rushkoff and Michael Oeming on Jimmy Church's FADE to Black - Patreon Special
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. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Vicki Robin
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 Covid-19 vaccine response. “The biggest threat to our collective health is our alienation from the under
Genesis P-Orridge: 1993 conversation (Part 3) - Patreon Special
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 Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Yaël Eisenstat
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 cybernetic feedback to those who deserve it. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com
Genesis P-Orridge: Bonus 1993 conversation (Part 2) - Patreon Special
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 Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mark Pesce
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 on social media platforms. “The minute we put banks and other real stuff on here is the minute it started
Genesis P-Orridge: Bonus 1993 conversation (Part 1) - Patreon Special
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 Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Conner Habib
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 war on sex is the longest and oldest running war on consciousness. Sex creates an altered state of conscio
Riane Eisler "From Domination to Partnership"
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 his opening monologue, Rushkoff explores how intimacy and uncertainty help make podcasting a special and uniq
Harvey Pekar: Bonus 2009 Interview - Patreon Special
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. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Julia Watson "Survival of the Most Symbiotic"- Live from IMPAKT Festival
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 society better create technology through the elements that already exist in our surrounding environment?
Sonia Shah "We're Always Strangers, Ourselves" - Live from IMPAKT Festival
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 not as strangers, but as fellow humans.In his opening monologue, Rushkoff connects the plight of bil
David Lynch: Bonus 1986 Interview - Patreon Special
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 Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
George Dyson "Nature is on Team Machine
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. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jessica Gordon Nembhard "Black Ideas Matter"
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 exploitation.In his opening monologue, Rushkoff discusses how the made-for-television format of United Sta
Joanna Harcourt-Smith: Bonus 2009 Interview - Patreon Special
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. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Marina Gorbis "Mutuality"
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. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Grant Morrison "Freaks Like Us"
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. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Terence McKenna: Bonus 1993 Interview - Patreon Special
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. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay “Toward Justice for All”
Playing for Team Human today, authors of Cynical Theories, Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay.Pluckrose, Lindsay, and Rushkoff discuss the origins of French postmodernism and how it trickled into academic research and scholarship. Together, they explore our contemporary war of competing narratives and how a fascistic political environment influences not just the politics of a particular moment, but people's attitudes toward one another.In his opening monologue, Rushkoff discusses Netflix's new do
Douglas Rushkoff "Find the Others" at Disinfo.Con 1999 - Patreon Special
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 Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dríade Aguiar "Culture Makes History"
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 address the destruction of the Amazon in an effective way.In his opening monologue, Rushkoff explains how
Timothy Leary: Bonus 1993 Interview - Patreon Special
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. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jim Rutt "An Invitation to Game B"
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 status through material possessions and positional goods. The status around GameB will be conviviality." Rutt says
Nora Bateson "The Changemaker's Trap"
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 about this possibility of recognizing living complexity in ourselves and each other that becomes this untold po
Michael Nesmith "Life After Television"
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 show had on a generation of technology and psychedelic icons.In his opening monologue, Rushkoff explores th
Matt Stoller "Make America Ours Again"
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 apolitical? Further, Rushkoff and Stoller discuss how neoliberal economic policy influenced both left and r
Julie Holland, M.D. "Good Chemistry"
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. Further, Rushkoff and Holland look at ways that humans have been polarized into their own personalized silos,
Richard Metzger "Do They Owe Us A Living?"
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 revolutionaries? They also consider the effect Covid-19 will have on a new generation’s financial prospects, and wh
Tyson Yunkaporta "Find the Other Others"
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 YunkaportaYunkaporta 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 time to a linear model of time affect human perception of progress? How did indigenous practices of p
Martin Winiecki "The Great Unveiling"
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, solidarity, and trust within a community. Further, he looks at how the technological and economic structur
Jared Diamond "Robots in the Outfield"
Playing for Team Human today, national baseball writer for the Wall Street Journal and author of "Swing Kings" Jared DiamondDiamond 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 desire to compete for the same college graduates who want to work for Amazon, Google, and major tech companies? Is t
Priscillia Ludosky "Occupying Reality"
Playing for Team Human today, activist and a Founder of the Yellow Vest Movement, Priscillia LudoskyLudosky 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 needs of the working class? How did the Yellow Vest Movement plan and organize their actions?On Real Pe
Brian Hughes "The Undercurrent of Extremism"
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 achieve solidarity?In his opening monologue, Rushkoff discusses how Covid-19 is a kamikaze attack of h
Reverend Billy and Savitri D "Charging the Wildness"
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 of their local community. “You have to change the theme of your work because something is happening to
James Howard Kunstler "The Long Emergency"
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 represent anything. “When capital doesn’t function, it stops being money.”Kunstler looks at how humans might
Helena Norberg-Hodge “Everything Works Better Locally”
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 the way television media is warping our perception of the current coronavirus crisis.Read Rushkoff on Genesis
Mark Stahlman "Get Digital, Go Medieval"
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. Further, he discusses the shift from a television environment to a digital environment and what that means for
Steven Hassan "Re-establishing Contact"
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 important to protect ourselves from indoctrination both domestic and international.In his monologue, Rushkoff discusses
Allison Fine "Things Worth Fighting For"
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 pay attention to what's going on now, but not to get stuck in what's going on now." Fine and Rushkoff discuss the i
James Lovelock "We Humans are a Good Thing"
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 Hypothesis, the ways in which human beings can work to stop climate change, and the delicate nature of life on earth.
Lauren Duca “Inheriting the Future” + Christopher Bouzy “Human Trollbots”
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 political participation has been triggered by the election of Trump and the imminent climate crisis. In addi
Paul Krassner "When Fake Was Fun"
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 press, and how being an optimist might be our best defence against the challenging times we face. I
Eric Gullichsen "Navigating A Shared Space"
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 Guillichsen's work today with Transcranial Ultrasound Neuromodulation. Here, Gullichsen explains his views on treatmen
Yancey Strickler "A More Generous World"
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 can we appropriately scale a business to fit the needs of humans instead of growth for growth's sake? Further
Deborah Cullinan "From the Community"
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, December 15.Cullinan joins Team Human to discuss what it means to place artists and creativity at the
Vinnie Colaiuta "Rhythm is Life"
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 importance of flow-state, and what it is like to be one of the most in-demand studio musicians.—
Tiffany Shlain "Unplugging One Day a Week" + Tribute to Paul Krassner
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 Krassner.You can find out more about Charles’ work at: http://www.tiffanyshlain.comYou
Charles Eisenstein "Questioning Quantification" + Bretton Woods@75 Keynote
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 explore some of the new ways economic systems might be structured in order to put humans at the center.
Bryan Walsh "Avoiding Apocalypse" + Adrienne Haynes "Community Empowerment"
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 change, disease pandemics, biotechnology, artificial intelligence, and extraterrestrial intelligence might
Ep. 136 Live from MAHA with Stephen Bartolomei and Brigitte McQueen Shew "Optimizing for Connection"
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 in a digital age, how candidates are positioned against one another, and how the stage's aes
Mary L. Gray "Invisible by Design" + Betaworks Studios Keynote
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 the assumptions made about the content moderators, proofreaders and AI-trainers that make the internet see
Live from VRTO with Keram Malicki-Sanchez & Amelia Winger-Bearskin
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. Together Rushkoff, Malicki-Sanchez, and Winger-Bearskin ask how virtual reality can be used in storyt
Jennifer Dumpert "Liminal Dreaming"
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, mitigate anxiety and depression and aid creativity. On this episode Douglas and Jennifer explore all forms of
Ep. 132 David Wallace-Wells "The Power of Panic"
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 climate change. He does this by showing that the obsession with the science behind climate can often hide th
Ep. 131 Cory Doctorow "The Oligarchy's Operating System"
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, but the dystopia that very much exists today. Together, Douglas and Cory explore the question – What do w
Ep. 130 Astra Taylor "Democracy is a Verb"
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 really have a clear vision and political imagination of what democracy should look like? How can we bot
Ep. 129 Clive Thompson "The Lust for Scale"
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 in not only programing our technologies, but programming our reality. In this free-form Team Human con
Ep. 128 Brewster Kahle "The Library of Everything"
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 archive. In a historical moment when we feel exploited and distrustful of so much media, Internet Archiv
Ep. 127 "All Hands On Deck" Extinction Rebellion with Gail Bradbrook and Clare Farrell
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 fortitude to confront these interconnected challenges.Playing for Team Human today are two guests who ar
Ep. 126 Ananya Roy "Occupying the Master’s House"
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 director of the Institute on Inequality and Democracy. Her book Poverty Capital: Microfinance and the Mak
Ep. 125 Aaron Gell "We're in the same story, here."
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 their conversation as they explore the ways stories can connect us. In this moment, when we face existent
Ep. 124 "Don't Know Much About History" - Live from the Greene Space with Roger McNamee
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 seat for technologies run amok.“There are no rules today.” McNamee warns of online surveillance and the
Ep. 123 Live from Portland with Blaed Spence and Jennifer Rauch "Beyond the Screen"
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 television age. What might politics look like when we are not reduced to mere spectators but instead become eng
Ep. 122 Live at WNYC's the Greene Space with Naomi Klein - "The Big Tent"
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. Klein finds hope in people’s ability to overcome divides by working together, in common labor, on a common pro
Ep. 121 Ron Kim "No More Race to the Bottom"
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 in people,” Kim explains. Hear Ron Kim’s vision for change that moves beyond “race to the bottom”
Ep. 120 Jacinta Gonzalez and Amy Herzog on "Amazon's Cloud Industrial Complex"
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 than just rising rents and gentrification.On today’s episode we’ll take a hard look at Amazon’s
Ep. 119 Team Human Live: Douglas Rushkoff and Siobhan O'Connor "Just the Way You Are"
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 started reading the book, this conversation exemplifies Rushkoff at his most open and candid.Douglas
Ep. 118 Aaron Maté "The Russians Are Coming!"
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” that thrives on distraction and misdirection, turning the public away from a real critique of
Ep. 117 Book Launch: A Live Team Human Conversation with Douglas Rushkoff and Seth Godin
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 an opportunity to engage with each other and audience in a spontaneous, free-form Team Human conver
Ep. 116 Live at Civic Hall Pt. 2: A Demonology of Algorithms with Mark Pesce
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 tamper with your emotional state in ways that compel you to act beyond your best interest? Centuries ago
Ep. 115 Live at Civic Hall Pt. 1: Penny Abeywardena
Playing for Team Human today: Penny Abeywardena.In part one of a two-part live Team Human show, Douglas is joined by New York City’s Commissioner for International Affairs, Penny Abeywardena. Penny’s work looks at the synergies between local and global issues. Guided by the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, Penny is helping make New York City a significant player in global efforts to solve humanity’s most pressing issues of immigration, poverty, climate change, injustice, and inequality.
Geert Lovink on "Sad by Design" (Corrected Audio)
Playing for Team Human today: media activist and scholar Geert Lovink. Geert will be helping us see how an understanding of the political economy is not enough. We have to reacquaint ourselves with the experiential layer of our humanity and even reclaim our sadness to counter the stultifying effects of platform capitalism. Today, when our sources of information are intimately intertwined with our social lives, it’s not as simple as just “going offline.” How can we overcome the anti-human agendas
Jamie Cohen "The Commodity of Authenticity"
Playing for Team Human today: media and technology scholar Jamie Cohen. Jamie will be helping us understand the commodity of authenticity. His work looks at the ways authenticity is quantized and codified on media platforms such as YouTube. It’s a process through which trust and connection become instrumentalized as tools for the monetization and manipulation of audience attention. Jamie warns how, coupled with powerful algorithms, the gaming of authenticity threatens serious social consequences
Jason Stockwood "System Reboot"
Playing for Team Human today: business reformer and the author of Reboot: A Blueprint for Happy Human Business in the Digital Age, Jason Stockwood. Jason will be showing us how to minimize the negative externalities of big business. It all comes down to the bizarre idea of providing goods and services that people actually need. Could such a radical business concept catch on today? Jason is striving to use business and technology to be part of the solution, rather than an extractive, negative for
Chenjerai Kumanyika "Uncivilization"
Playing for Team Human today: activist, professor, podcast producer, journalist, and musician Chenjerai Kumanyika. Chenjerai joins Douglas in the basement Media Squat at CUNY Queens College for a conversation about why studying history matters more than ever as we fight for a just future. Chenjerai also shares a bit of his own unique personal history; how he went from working in an emergency room to a touring as an international hip hop artist, to his most recent work as an activist/journal
Enspiral: "Better Work Together"
Playing for Team Human today: Susan Basterfield and Anthony Cabraal. Susan and Anthony share the open secrets of bottom-up collaboration as we celebrate the publication of Enspiral’s book, Better Work Together. It's a conversation about the power of working together, building on ideas “good enough to try,” and creating a space where it’s “safe to fail.”Looking for collaborative and participatory ways to create social change? Enspiral has collected and opened up its learnings for all to replicate
Jason Schmitt "A Pirate Bay of Knowledge?"
Playing for Team Human today: Jason Schmitt. Jason looks at the big business of for-profit academic publishing in his new documentary Paywall:The Business of Scholarship. Should the the world's research be locked behind closed doors? Jason makes the case for open access on today's Team Human.Opening the show, Rushkoff offers a monologue on the state of democracy. While our politicians and their propagandists have lost faith in our ability to vote purposefully, Team Human knows better. There has
Jessica Blank "A Walk In Their Shoes"
Playing for Team Human today is playwright, actor, director, writer and teacher Jessica Blank. Jessica shares her insights into the process of building empathy through story. Through works such as her documentary plays the Exonerated and Aftermath, Jessica’s characters stare their audience directly in the eye, reach out to their heart, and open a pathway for transformation. This, Jessica explains, is the magic of being in shared space with people embodying real, human stories.Learn about her cre
Fred Turner "Beyond the Master Plan"
Playing for Team Human today is Fred Turner, professor and Chair of the Department of Communication at Stanford University. Fred will be helping us recover the countercultural roots of digital media, while also imploring us to look toward the mundane, existing ways of staking our claim to authority over the world in which we live.Turner has done extensive research into the countercultural and even psychedelic roots of cyberculture, culminating in his extended biography of Stewart Brand titled&nb
Nora Bateson "Warm Data"
Playing for Team Human today is systems thinker, writer, and filmmaker Nora Bateson. Nora will be telling us how to stop looking at things as objects and begin seeing the spaces and connections between them. It’s not too late to bring our species back from the brink! This conversation was recorded backstage in Palo Alto at the Institute For the Future's (IFTF) 50th Anniversary Gala.I first met at Nora Bateson at a general semantics conference where she was screening her then brand new
Philip McKenzie and Michael Wood-Lewis "There Goes the Neighborhood"
Playing for Team Human today a double header of people trying to effect real cultural change in very different ways. Up first is cultural anthropologist, host of the 2 Dope Boys podcast, and consultant Philip McKenzie. Philip makes the case for injecting corporate america with the values of social justice by subverting the machine from within. Following Philip is founder of Front Porch Forum, Michael Wood Lewis. Michael shows us how the net can be used to turn residents back into neighbors. It’s
Nathan Schneider "A Place Where It's Easier To Be Good"
Playing for Team Human today is platform cooperative activist, journalist, and author of Everything for Everyone: The Radical Tradition that Is Shaping the Next Economy, Nathan Schneider.With contemporary examples and historical context, Nathan makes the case that the co-op movement is not mere utopian idealism, but a very real and vital economic shift that is being harnessed for social good. It’s a conversation that embraces the co-op transformation as a path to a more just and equitable societ
Sarah Esther Lageson PhD "Giving Each Other Some Slack"
What happens when our past becomes indelibly fixed in the online databases that shape our digital identities? Is there ever escape from the internet’s permanent memory for our blemishes and increasingly public misfortunes? Sarah Lageson studies the serious social ramifications and new forms of “digital punishment” meted out by the growth of online crime data. On today’s episode she discusses this topic, the focus of her forthcoming book, Digital Punishment - Uses and Abuses of Criminal Records i
danah boyd "Seeing New Worlds"
Playing for Team Human today, technology and social media scholar, founder of Data & Society Research Institute, and author of It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens, danah boyd.On today's episode, Douglas and danah talk about stepping outside of our narrow worldviews. How does technology amplify our biases? Where does human agency lie in complex, networked systems? What is the distinction between a "network" versus a "community?" These and many more questions explored in thi
Alissa Quart "It's Not Your Fault"
One of the lies many of us have bought over the years is the American Dream. It seemed to work - at least back in the day of the GI bill and guaranteed mortgages. You work hard, go to college, and things will work out. You’ll be okay. And now, a lot of us who were privileged enough to be able to follow that path, are finding ourselves unable to reach that place of security anymore. It’s a new precarity - shared by almost everyone in America today - and what our guest Alissa Quart has beauti
Molly Crabapple and Jace Clayton (DJ Rupture) Live at Civic Hall
Team Human celebrates its 100th episode with this special “double feature,” recorded live before an audience at Civic Hall in Manhattan. Joining Douglas on the stage is writer, artist, and journalist Molly Crabapple. With just “compressed ash and wood pulp,” Molly brings to life images of injustice and makes visible that which is too often rendered invisible. Her paintings from Guantanamo, Istanbul, Syria, Puerto Rico, and recently immigration detention centers in Texas bear witness to the
Eliott Edge: Finding the Other "Others"
How might altered states of consciousness deepen our empathy, imagination, and lead us find the other others? Writer, thinker, and explorer of consciousness, Eliott Edge looks at the ways in which virtual reality and psychedelics can create new frames of reference and enhance our connection to each other and the planet. In his latest book, 3 Essays on Virtual Reality: Overlords, Civilization, and Escape , Eliott engages with the ethical and existential questions of reality as a simulation. "If r
Chris Dancy "I Put Myself In Airplane Mode"
Playing for Team Human today, “The Most Connected Man on Earth," author of Don’t Unplug: How Technology Saved My Life and Can Save Yours, Chris Dancy.Dancy has “pushed through” personal surveillance technology and has come back to teach us the lessons he has learned from years of intense firsthand engagement as a “mindful cyborg.”In this episode, perhaps the most candid and open conversation on Team Human to date, Dancy shares his personal story. He explains how technology saved his life, not by
Special Announcement! Team Human Live w/ Molly Crabapple and Jace Clayton August 16th at Civic Hall
Special Announcement and Invitation! Free Show. Limited Tickets Remain.Details and Tickets:https://www.eventbrite.com/e/jace-clayton-and-molly-crabapple-with-douglas-rushkoff-team-human-live-tickets-48339958116?utm_source=eb_email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=new_event_email&utm_term=viewmyevent_buttonNext Thursday, August 16th, Douglas will be joined live on stage at Civic hall in New York City by two incredibly talented, powerful, and thoughtful human beings; artist, journalist, and author Mo
Parker Posey "It's the Screens That Got Small."
Playing for Team Human today, actress, movie star, visionary of the human-centered future, and — perhaps most importantly - Gracie the Wonderdog’s human partner, Parker Posey.Parker will be sharing what it’s like to play a supposedly evil character like Doctor Smith on the Netflix series Lost in Space, as well as some of the experiences, insight, and love of life that went into her definitively fabulous new book - You’re On An Airplane.Today’s show comes to you, ALIVE, from the headquarters of t
Bo Burnham "The Movie of Your Own Life Does Not Suck"
Playing for Team Human today is YouTube phenomenon, Netflix comedian, and writer and director of the movie Eighth Grade, Bo Burnham. Bo and Douglas consider the other, positive side of social media — how it still gives young people a way to test and share social strategies and express themselves. A conversation with many inspired tangents, Douglas and Bo also look at the ways social media pressures us to live our lives like a performance in a movie, the tragedy of becoming trapped in metana
Team Human w/ Virtual Futures Live in London Part 2: Rupert Sheldrake
In July 2018, Team Human partnered with Virtual Futures for an evening of connection and conversation at JuJu’s Bar and Stage in London. Joining Douglas on stage, science fiction, fantasy, and horror writer Pat Cadigan followed by biologist, author, and TED outlaw Rupert Sheldrake.Presented here in Episode 95 is Part Two of this live event featuring Douglas in conversation with Rupert Sheldrake, followed by a group conversation and audience question and answer session. If you missed pa
Team Human w/ Virtual Futures Live in London Part 1: Pat Cadigan
On July 9th 2018 Team Human partnered with Virtual Futures for an evening of connection and conversation at JuJu's Bar and Stage in London. Joining Douglas on stage, science fiction, fantasy, and horror writer Pat Cadigan followed by biologist, author, and TED outlaw Rupert Sheldrake.Presented here is Part One of the program, featuring Douglas in conversation with Pat Cadigan. Pat and Douglas take a winding path through topics including virtual reality, identity, and telling the future. Ins
Palak Shah "Who's Gonna Care?"
Playing for Team Human today is Palak Shah, Social Innovations Director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA). Palak will be enlightening us about America’s hidden labor force, the value they create, and how we can support her efforts to give them the voice and dignity they deserve. While domestic work has long been viewed as something less than “real work,” Palak explains how this invisible labor is actually the backbone of both our society and the economy. Together, Palak and D
Live at the Alchemist's Kitchen: Dr. Mark Filippi "Moon Over Matter"
Note: For the full, uninterrupted conversation plus audience Q&A, please consider becoming a patron and subscriber at Patreon.com/teamhuman where the entire 90 minute conversation is available now.Recorded live on June 21st at the Alchemist's Kitchen NYC in collaboration with Evolver, this evening of conversation focuses on the non-generic quality of time, the way each week of the lunar cycle favors a particular neurotransmitter, and how to leverage this knowledge for better productivity, emotio
Adah Parris "The Art of Conversation"
Playing for Team Human today Adah Parris. Adah is here to help reorient us to ourselves and steer us to a better, more human future. Adah wears many hats. She is a tech Futurist, a transformation coach, storyteller, public speaker, consultant, and artist. Comfortable in such diverse roles, Adah brings a unique perspective to the team, having influenced both individuals and corporations to adopt a more connection-centered ethos. In this candid and open conversation with Douglas, Adah brings
Moira Weigel and Ben Tarnoff “Humane Tech or Capitalism Rebranded?”
Playing for Team Human today, recorded live on the floor at the Personal Democracy Forum 2018, are Moira Weigel and Ben Tarnoff. Moira and Ben will be showing us how the tech industry’s promise to build less harmful products and programs is just capitalism’s way of proving that love means never having to say, “I’m sorry.”Moira and Ben co-wrote the brilliant feature article in the Guardian, “Why Silicon Valley Can’t Fix Itself”Just last week, Ben’s exposé and interview with an anonymous worker/or
George Monbiot "Beyond Salvation and Disaster"
Playing for Team Human today is activist, Guardian columnist, and author of Out of the Wreckage: A New Politics for an Age of Crisis, George Monbiot.Monbiot and Rushkoff discuss the abysmal failure of neoliberalism, a narrative that figures humans as self-interested, competitive, and greedy creatures. Monbiot offers compelling evidence, both from his own on the ground experience reporting on people’s movements in Indonesia and Brazil, as well as recent findings in neuroscience and anthropology t
Eli Pariser "The Ground Under Our Feet"
Playing for Team Human today is Eli Pariser, author of The Filter Bubble, former director of MoveOn.org and current chief executive of Upworthy.com.Eli uses media to make what’s important popular, rather than the other way around. Upworthy.com is a story-driven website focused on magnifying meaningful conversations that encourage positive social change. On today’s episode, Eli and Douglas mine our reality tunnels, looking at how perspective shapes meaning and what strategies we might employ to g
Jason Louv "A World of Gods and Monsters"
Playing for team human today is author, occult scholar, and wizard Jason Louv. Jason will be helping us see how the intentions we bring into the world of artificial intelligence could set something in motion from which it is hard to return. Jason’s latest book John Dee and the Empire of Angels: Enochian Magick and the Occult Roots of Empire digs deep into the untold and often ignored occult history of Western thinking and empire. On today’s show Jason and Douglas bridge the gap from the Eli
Juho Makkonen "Breaking the Unicorn Myth"
Playing for Team Human today is Juho Makkonen, co-founder of Sharetribe.Juho is working on a vision of the “sharing economy” where people share value with one another instead of seeing it get syphoned off by companies like Uber and Airbnb. His company Sharetribe creates tools for individuals and local communities to decentralize and ultimately democratize ownership of the sharing economy. In this conversation, Douglas and Juho discuss platform cooperatives and the slow patient work of building a
Molly Sauter "Stupid Smart Cities"
Playing for Team Human today is technology and society researcher Molly Sauter. Molly will be helping us see how stupid some “smart city” visions really are. Molly and Douglas discuss the extractive, “mining ethos” of the tech investment swarm, and how this mentality does harm to communities from Silicon Valley to Toronto, Canada. Is your city the next VC Guinea pig in the technocratic experiment to grow cities and extract their value?Check out Molly’s fantastic book on another type of “swarm”:
Charles Hugh Smith "Investing in Community"
Playing for Team Human today, the economy’s equivalent of an outsider artist, Of Two Minds blogger and author of Money and Work Unchained, Charles Hugh Smith.Charles will be talking to us about the market, Universal Basic Income, and distributed prosperity.You can learn more about Charles at his website and blog Of Two Minds: https://www.oftwominds.com/.Opening the show, Douglas considers the "Art of the Deal." Perhaps a truly artful deal is one that engages us in relationships of collabora
Molly Wright Steenson "Play in the Uncanny Valley"
Playing for Team Human today is designer, technology historian, and author of the new book Architectural Intelligence, Professor Molly Wright Steenson. Molly and Douglas share a wide-ranging conversation that begins by looking at the “weirdness” of AI. How do design metaphors such as “awesome mouth feel” and “uncanny valley” provoke deeper questions of human imagination, play, and meaning. Molly’s background in architecture and history offers listeners a unique grounding of digital in the physic
Brian Keating "Honey, I Shrunk the Cosmos"
“Everyone wants to be a cowboy, but no one wants to ride the range.” A dream of unraveling the mystery of the birth of universe led astrophysicist and author Brian Keating to "saddle up" and head to a frozen ocean of snow at the bottom of the world. Keating joins Rushkoff to talk about science, religion, questions that lead to more questions, and the "background noise” of the cosmos that may just be the key to understanding how this all began.Rushkoff begins today's show comm
Jeremy Lent "The Patterning Instinct"
Playing for Team Human today is Jeremy Lent, author of The Patterning Instinct. Lent’s expansive research looks at the variety of ways cultures throughout history have patterned meaning into the cosmos. In excavating these patterns, Lent shares how humans might retrieve those metaphors that amplify altruism and shared intentionality. Together, Rushkoff and Lent explore the question of what makes humans unique and how we might leverage our patterning instinct to foster a future characterized by d
Kenric McDowell "The Right Kind of AI"
What can artists, musicians, magical thinkers and "weirdos" bring to machine learning and neural networks? What do we need to make the right kind of AI? Exploring these questions and more is Kenric McDowell, leader of Google’s Artists and Machine Intelligence program. In this conversation with Douglas, Kenric explains how his unique role at Google enables him to bring the artistic spirit into the very heart of technology development. Moving beyond the hype of AI, Kenric shares strategies fo
Suzanne Slomin "Feeding A Living Culture"
Playing for Team Human today is Suzanne Slomin, founder of Green Rabbit a small solar powered bakery located in the Mad River Valley of Vermont specializing in naturally leavened breads. Suzanne will share with us what it’s like being a “Real Person Doing Real Things” – an actual baker, farmer, employer and global citizen trying to operate as sustainably and humanly as possible across all the dimensions of her work. In this episode, we meet Suzanne having just “fed” her sourdough start
Live at Gray Area Night Two Pt. 2: Erik Davis and Josette Melchor
Today on Team Human we conclude our series of live shows recorded at Gray Area Foundation for the Arts in the historic Mission district of San Francisco. Picking up where we left off last week and joining Douglas on stage are teammates Erik Davis and Josette Melchor. Erik Davis is the author of Techgnosis, Nomad Codes and host of The Expanding Mind podcast. Erik and Douglas start with the big question, “What the fuck is going on here?” What begins with a few laughs quickly digs into a mind-expan
Live at Gray Area Night Two Pt. 1: Lauren McCarthy
Playing for Team Human today is interactive artist Lauren McCarthy. Lauren’s thought provoking work brings a unique and creative perspective on social interaction and the intersection of humans and technology.In this episode, Lauren’s app Crowdpilot becomes the first “advertisement” to be featured on Team Human. Crowdpilot is an app in which real time conversation advice is crowdsourced from online third-party monitors. In another crowdsourcing experiment titled Social Turkers, McCarthy hir
Live From Gray Area Foundation for the Arts Pt.2: Howard Rheingold
This week we continue with part two of our special live recording of Team Human at Gray Area Foundation for the Arts in San Fransisco. Joining Douglas on stage is cyberculture pioneer, educator, artist, author, visionary, and shoe painter, Howard Rheingold. “Mind amplifiers,” “psychedelic signifiers,” and “the instrumental vs. the sacred” are just the tip of the iceberg in a conversation that explores how we got to this moment in technology and society... and ultimately where we hope t
Live From San Francisco at Gray Area Foundation for the Arts Pt.1: Annalee Newitz
This week's Team Human comes to you recorded live at the historic Grand Theater in San Francisco's Mission District, home to Gray Area Foundation for the Arts. We'll be sharing four installments of this live event, kicking it off with a conversation with Annalee Newitz, author of the mind blowing sci-fi novel Autonomous, as well as prior work Scatter Adapt and Remember: How Humans will Survive a Mass Extinction, founder of I09, and journalist for outlets such as Ars Technica among many others.An
Damien Williams "We Built It From Us"
Playing for Team Human today is interdisciplinary thinker and technology philosopher Damien Williams. In this episode, Williams and Rushkoff look at the embedded biases of technology and the values programed into our mediated lives. How has a conception of technology as “objective” blurred our vision to the biases normalized within these systems? What ethical interrogation might we apply to such technology? And finally, how might alternative modes of thinking, such as magick, the occult, and the
Eleanor Saitta "Is It Safe?"
Playing for Team Human today, cyber security expert Eleanor Saitta. Eleanor shares her deep knowledge on building secure and robust digital ecosystems. As Eleanor and Douglas converse on issues of privacy, encryption, and surveillance, a set of thought-provoking insights about online identity and human to human connection emerges. Does empathy scale across our cyber connections? Or is it confusion and distrust that are most apt to scale? Conversing over a shaky and intermittent VoIP connect
David Pescovitz "Music for Aliens"
Playing for Team Human today is journalist, Boing Boing editor, Institute for the Future research director and recent Grammy Award Winning record producer David Pescovitz. Douglas spoke to David just days before he won the Grammy, with collaborators Tim Daly and Lawrence Azerrad, for best boxed or special limited-edition package for The Voyager Golden Record: 40th Anniversary Edition. The Voyager vinyl is an incredible artifact to hold and hear. The original Voyager Golden Records were launched
Merrelyn Emery "Having a Role in Your World"
Playing for Team Human today is world renowned social scientist and systems thinker, Merrelyn Emery. Emery, with her partner the late Fred Emery, advanced Open Systems Theory and applied it to management of organizations and government. Open Systems Theory, or OST is the idea that autocracies make for bad governments, companies, and organizations. In this conversation, Merrelyn and Douglas discuss the power of community and collective organizing. They also discuss the social environments conduci
Ep. 70 Danielle Butin "It Starts With Listening"
Playing for Team Human today is Danielle Butin, founder of the Afya Foundation. Afya collects and sends surplus medical supplies from the US to those who need them around the world. In today’s conversation with Douglas, Danielle shares not only stories of the good accomplished through Afya, but also a broader strategy for human intervention. How did Danielle, an occupational therapist and geriatric care provider, come to launch an organization that has shipped more than six million pounds of med
Ghislaine Boddington "Full Immersion"
Playing for Team Human today is immersion experience artist and pioneer, Ghislaine Boddington. Ghislaine joins Douglas for a conversation about the nature of immersive technologies and how we might bring our bodies with us into the digital realm. Rather than diminish the role of the physical body, Ghislaine’s work celebrates the body as an integral part of enhanced immersive experience. As Creative Director at body>data>space Ghislaine’s art and practice embraces technologies that amplify connec
Ep. 68 Stacco Troncoso "The Commons Is The Glue"
Playing for Team Human today is Stacco Troncoso of the P2P Foundation. Stacco brings with him deep knowledge and enthusiasm for the power of the commons. Stacco and the Commons Transition team put their faith in people, believing in the potential of diverse, empowered communities to address complex problems. Far from a utopian fantasy, P2P offers a wealth of resources including models from groups who have already successfully transitioned to a commons approach in governance, finance, and culture
Genesis Breyer P-Orridge "Weaponized Pleasure"
Genesis Breyer P-Orridge has been one of my dearest and most human friends for the past few decades. Gen’s a musician, icon, cut-and-paste artist, occultist, and pandrogyne with whom I’ve worked and played in many ways over the years. Gen founded The Coum Transmissions, Throbbing Gristle, and Psychic TV, with whom I played keyboards in the early 2000’s. Gen also embarked on a very personal cut-and-paste experiment with partner Jackie, where they both sought to unite through psychic and phys
Mitch Horowitz "Radical Optimism"
Playing for Team Human today, occult scholar and author Mitch Horowitz. Mitch, the author of Occult America (Bantam); One Simple Idea: How Positive Thinking Reshaped Modern Life (Crown); and Mind As Builder: The Positive-Mind Metaphysics of Edgar Cayce(A.R.E. Press) joins Douglas for a conversation about the shared histories of magic, capitalism, and American political thought. It’s a conversation that asks questions about the nature of the mind and the power o
Erin Barnes "In Our Backyards"
Playing for Team Human today is Erin Barnes co-founder of ioby. Ioby (in our backyards) is a “crowd-resourcing” platform for citizen-led, neighborhood-focused projects. Rather than just raise money, ioby mobilizes civic engagement by putting resources in the hands of local leaders who want to steward positive change in their neighborhoods. Erin shares with Douglas how ioby harnesses the power of solidarity and real world connection. In doing so, ioby not only ignites civic participatio
Nikki Silvestri "More Than Mere Dirt"
What can we learn from a mere handful of dirt? For Nikki Silvestri, soil is both a metaphor and the literal “fertile” ground through which complexity and diversity thrive. Having worked on issues of food systems, sustainability, and public health, Silvestri describes soil as the link through which to engage in the work of building community, resilience, and social equity. Today, in her conversation with Douglas Rushkoff, Silvestri offers a unique approach to systems thinking, grounded in a deep
Frances Moore Lappé and Adam Eichen "The Thrill of Democracy"
Playing for Team Human today are Frances Moore Lappé and Adam Eichen from the Small Planet Institute. Lappé and Eichen are out on the road with a mission to reinvigorate “civic courage” and inclusive participation in democracy. Their latest book Daring Democracy Igniting Power, Meaning, and Connection for the America We Want offers a diagnosis of what has come to ail our democracy and recommends the necessary cures, offering concrete examples of ballot initiatives, reforms, and collective organi
Hugh Gallagher "An Outsider's Approach"
Today on Team Human, we share a conversation with author, musician, humorist, and culture hacker Hugh Gallagher. Gallagher began his professional writing career thanks in part to a college entrance essay that went viral in the 90s, earning the distinction of being an early, if not the first, internet comedy meme. With lines like, “I am a dynamic figure, often seen scaling walls and crushing ice... I can pilot bicycles up severe inclines with unflagging speed, and I cook Thirty-Minute Brownies in
Tim O'Reilly "Solving for Economic Inequality?"
Net impresario Tim O’Reilly now recognizes how the short-term focus of digital business is draining the real economy. Its algorithms have been programmed to extract value from us all. For O’Reilly, however, the solution is not to eliminate algorithms, but to write better ones. If there’s an argument to made for technosolutionism, O’Reilly makes as good a case as there is. Rather than confronting O’Reilly on their differences, Rushkoff engages him, pushes gently, finds common ground, and loo
Neal Gorenflo "Sharing Cities"
Playing for Team Human today is Neal Gorenflo from Shareable.net. Neal joins Douglas to spread the word about Shareable’s latest resource, Sharing Cities: Activating the Urban Commons. Sharing Cities is an inspiring collection of 137 case studies and policies across a wide spectrum of issues that show how empowered communities are building citizen-run, democratic solutions using commons thinking.Whether it be the grassroots artist organization Club Cultural Matienzo (CCM) that formed in Buenos A
Andy Fisher "Big Hunger"
A high school basketball team organizes a canned food drive. A church volunteer group restocks the local pantry with donations from Walmart. Both examples are seemingly positive portrayals of American civic engagement… So what’s wrong with this picture?Playing for Team Human today is Andy Fisher, author of Big Hunger: the Unholy Alliance Between Corporate America and Anti-Hunger Groups. In the book, Fisher tackles the big question of why chronic hunger and food insecurity persist despite the eff
Amber Case "Calming Technology"
What is a robot? Are robots our friends? Does the term “friend” even apply? So begins this week’s episode of Team Human with cyborg anthropologist Amber Case. Amber and Douglas look at how algorithmically programmed systems of automation and control might just be turning us into the robots. Case’s recent book, Calm Technology Design For the Next Generation of Devices proposes another way. How might we flip the script on systems that compress and atomize our every move? How might we use our techn
Ep. 57 Richard Heinberg "There's No App For That"
Playing for Team Human today is Post Carbon Institute fellow Richard Heinberg. Richard is the co-author of Our Renewable Future and most recently, the manifesto, There’s No App For That. On today’s show Richard and Douglas challenge the idea that technological “progress” is a panacea for solving systems-level crises like climate change. Richard’s work calls on us to look at the fundamental ethical problems underlying climate issues such as overshoot, unsustainable growth, and inequality. Heinber
Ep. 56 Professor Steve Fuller "You Shall Be As Gods: Transhumanism, Posthumanism, and everything human in between."
On today's episode of Team Human, Douglas is joined by Professor Steve Fuller. Fuller teaches Sociology at the University of Warwick. In his recent book, Humanity 2.0, Fuller embraces a future vision in which technological and medical advancement will enable humans to evolve beyond our current physical and mental limitations. Steve will use this concept to teach us what distinguishes transhumanist from posthumanist projects, and why such thinking should be taken seriously. While Rushkoff and Ful
Ep. 55 Jon Lebkowsky "Folding the Fringes"
For this week's Team Human, Douglas is out on the road in Austin, Texas where he caught up with longtime friend and cyberculture pioneer, Jon Lebkowsky. Jon and Douglas first look back on the promise of the early cyber revolution, and then look forward to the ways in which those quirky fringe elements might be folded back into the work of promoting justice, solidarity, and even a bit of ambiguity... Whether manifested in platform cooperatives, consensus building tools like Loomio, or in the spir
Ep. 54 Manoush Zomorodi "Blissfully Bored"
When was the last time you found yourself truly bored? Have you forfeit those nooks and crannies in the day when you used to let your mind wander aimlessly in a daydream?On today's episode of Team Human, Douglas is joined by Manoush Zomorodi, host of the popular WNYC Studios podcast, Note to Self. On Note to Self, Manoush initiated a series of listener experiments aimed at breaking the influence of our digital devices and networks on our lives. Those social experiments led her to uncov
Ep. 53 IBM Watson "If I Only Had A Brain"
This week is a special episode of Team Human. We are sharing an excerpt of a panel discussion recorded on location at IBM Watson in New York from August 2015, hosted by Douglas Rushkoff and produced by our friends at Virtual Futures in London. Douglas was joined by philosopher-sociologist Steve Fuller, tech entrepreneur and ethicist Martine Rothblatt, IBM Watson researcher Michael Karasick, and philosopher of technology, Dan O'Hara.Patreon subscribers have exclusive access to the full, unedited
Ep. 52 William Softky and Criscillia Benford "Recalibrating For Trust"
Consider a text message in which you are deciding where to meet for dinner with a friend. As you go back and forth in that stream of abbreviated communication, you suggest, “Let’s eat Italian,” to which your friend responds “Fine.” The one-word text sends you into a state of alarm. Did they mean “fine” as in “great,” or “fine” as in “Fine, you win, we can eat where you’d like”? Somewhere in this chain of communication trust, has been lost. Playing for Team Human today are William Softky and
Ep. 51 Make It So: Civic Hall Labs
Elizabeth Stewart, founding executive director of Civic Hall Labs, empowers technologists who put people first, amplifying the “civic” of civic tech. On today’s show, Stewart joins Douglas Rushkoff for a conversation about technology innovations whose value is measured in their contribution to the public good. It’s a type of thinking that asserts the means of tech innovation to be just as important as its ends. We’ll learn about Elizabeth's work and how Civic Hall labs is fostering participatory
Ep. 50 Alexandra Juhasz "The Tiny Magic of CyberFeminism"
Playing for Team Human today is Alexandra Juhasz. Juhasz brings her extensive and diverse work as a filmmaker, media critic, and feminist activist to the Team Human round table.On today's show, Douglas and Alexandra explore the dangers of a media landscape that amplifies the grotesque and sensational. They also look at how human agency and autonomy are threatened on our hypercommercialized media platforms.Drawing on her commitment to feminist values, Alex encourages an embrace of the "situatedne
Ep. 49 Michael Frederickson "Awestruck"
Think back to the last time your eyes were opened wide, your mouth agape, and the hairs on the back of your neck stood on end as you took in a profound or inspiring sight… On today's episode of Team Human, Douglas is joined by Michael Frederickson, lead technical director at Pixar Animation, to talk about this deeply human experience of awe.It's a conversation that spans the “awful” to the "awesome" and all those ambiguous spaces in-between. Rushkoff and Frederickson dig into questions of techno
Ep. 48 Arthur Brock Reclaims Currency
Playing for Team Human is systems thinker, currency designer, and social hacker Arthur Brock. Art joins Douglas to talk about how currency is less a thing you own and more a way of sharing. It’s a conversation that poses a crucial question of both money and cryptocurrencies alike–how might we design new exchanges that embody values of social and environmental betterment, rather than extraction and exploitation? Rushkoff begins today’s show with a monologue about Instagram’s recent addition
Ep. 47 Richard Barbrook "It's Capitalism, Mate"
With the birth of the internet and advance of digital networks, we’ve been promised everything from creative cooperation and digital democracy, to the end of work and a new abundance of leisure time. It’s a promise of a techno-utopia that persists today. Playing for team human today, Dr. Richard Barbrook challenges this imaginary future by unearthing the neoliberal underpinnings of Silicon Valley’s vision of progress. Rushkoff and Barbrook engage in a conversation that both uncovers the eco
Ep. 46 Walter Kirn Pt. 2 "Toward Human Ends or the End of Humans?"
This week on Team Human, the conclusion of Douglas's soul-searching conversation with friend and author Walter Kirn. Together, Kirn and Rushkoff explore how disingenuously promoted concepts such as “creative destruction” are used to replace human civilization with a business plan.What would it mean to maximize human virtues of compassion or intelligence instead of machine virtues like speed and extraction? Is there a higher power, and do we need one in order to value one another?Check out Walter
Ep. 45 Walter Kirn Pt. 1 "Training Our Replacements"
Playing for Team Human today, author and social critic Walter Kirn. Walter and Douglas engage in a two-part conversation that questions the so-called “evolution” of technology. Just how much of our humanity are we willing to surrender to our devices? Why do we deem our own replacement by computer programs to be the inevitable path of progress? And whose progress are we actually talking about?We’ve broken this conversation into two parts. Tune in next week for Part 2. Visit walterkirn.com to lear
Ep.44 Special Episode "Collective Power"
This week, a special holiday episode featuring conversations with Astra Taylor and Thomas Gokey of the Debt Collective plus worker cooperative organizer Esteban Kelly. We launched Team Human a little less than a year ago with little fanfare or promotion. Steadily we’ve assembled a formidable team of listeners via word of mouth, retweets, and person-to-person conversation. We’d like to take this week to introduce our more recent listeners to two conversations that set the tone for Team Huma
Ep. 43 Adam Brock "Better Than You Found It"
Playing for Team Human today is permaculturalist Adam Brock, author of Change Here Now. Adam joins Douglas for a conversation about how humanity is integrally connected to natural ecosystems. “Nature is a textbook,” Adam explains, and so by paying close attention to ecological systems, we can better understand ourselves as part of a greater whole. It’s a theme that serves as the springboard into a conversation not only about the ways we grow food, but also about community, trust, and the deeper
Ep. 42 Ramesh Srinivasan "Whose Global Village"
Playing for Team Human is Ramesh Srinivasan, professor and author of Whose Global Village? Rethinking How Technology Shapes Our World. Today, information travels around the globe in an instant, and connection to far away people and places is merely a click away. Yet the prevalence of filter bubbles, the rise of political extremism, and the consolidation of network power into the hands of behemoth companies like Facebook and Google portend a growing disconnection in society. Ramesh Srinivasa
Ep. 41 Richard D. Bartlett "There Is No Enemy Team"
Playing for Team Human today, master of human connection and consensus, Loomio co-founder Richard Bartlett.Bartett, hailing from New Zealand, stopped by Douglas's home studio while on a community organizing workshop tour of the US. Bartlett and Rushkoff discuss the challenges of building consensus in an all too often top-down, winner-takes all society. Together we'll learn how Loomio, inspired by the general assemblies of Occupy Wall Street, strives to amplify collaborative power and foster more
Ep. 39 Daniel Berninger "Fighting for a Human Agenda"
Playing for Team Human today is Daniel Berninger. Berninger is a communications technologist who brings his unique, behind-the-scenes insight to a discussion about what distinguishes human-centered technological advancement from today’s all too prevalent machine-focused visions for the future. Berninger, who played an instrumental role in the creation of VoIP, or voice over internet communications technology, offers a critique of systems whose power is inflated by machine agendas. Berninger also
Ep. 38 J.T. Rogers "The Play is the Thing"
Just getting a thousand humans into a room together to sit and watch other humans act out something on stage is the miracle. Playwright J.T. Rogers understands why the very act of doing live theater is so hopeful, and applies this hope to intractable problems like the Middle East conflict - with surprising, and Tony-nominated results.Also, a monologue from Douglas Rushkoff on the Manchester bombing, and what it means when a fatal stampede at a Who concert in Cincinnati can be considered the good
Ep. 37 William Hogeland "Defaulting to Colonialism"
On this week’s Team Human, we discover one of the reasons why knowing history matters. William Hogeland, author of Autumn of the Black Snake, tells the story of how and why the US Army was created - not to defend our borders, but to wipe out indigenous nations. And all that, in an effort to satisfy the growth mandate embedded in our economy by heroes of the neoliberal left like Alexander Hamilton. Make no mistake: Hogeland is a live wire.The show opens with a related monologue from Rushkoff abou
Ep. 36 Micah Sifry "What We Do Now! #PDF17"
Playing for Team Human is Micah Sifry. Next month Micah will host the 2017 Personal Democracy Forum. On today’s show, Micah and Douglas discuss how the stakes are higher than ever for bringing people into an active civic life and engagement with democracy. Looking beyond the 2016 electoral postmortems and whodunits, Micah and Douglas talk about the power of humans breathing together–conspiring–in real space and time, while also leveraging technologies of connection, to build an actionable progre
Ep. 35 Tessa Lena "Fighting the Robots"
Playing for Team Human today is musician Tessa Lena. Tessa's music explores the tension between technology and human agency. In her songs and in this interview, Tessa playfully challenges robotic conceptions of humanity. Tessa offers a compelling argument for power of music to call us out of those automatic, quantified notions of self and society.Both Lena and Rushkoff pose essential questions; Is technology being used to extend our human potential? Does the embedded economic agenda driving tech
Ep. 34 Pia Mancini "No Shame! Towards a Cooperative Economy"
Playing for Team Human today is Pia Mancini. Pia is a visionary democracy activist who co-founded the Net Party in Argentina and DemocracyOS. Today Pia joins Douglas to talk about her new project Open Collective. Open Collective is platform that helps small, non-traditional organizations to collectivize, raise funds, and manage expenses in a networked and transparent fashion. Open Collective is a useful resource for listeners who are trying to build sustainable funding for their local commu
Ep. 33 David Sax "The Revenge of Analog"
Playing for Team Human today is author and Bloomberg Businessweek and New Yorker columnist David Sax. Sax’s latest book Revenge of the Analog, Real Things and Why They Matter explores the resurgence of the tactile, human-to-human, brick-and-mortar encounters that characterize the analog experience. How might our rekindled love of vinyl LPs, local book stores, and face-to-face interaction help reground society to the physical realities of land, labor, and our fellow humans? Sax and Rushkoff explo
Ep. 32 Laszlo Karafiath PhD "Meme Wars"
Playing for Team Human today, memeticist and social change agent Laszlo Karafiath Ph.D.Laszlo, memetic engineer for Culture 2, shares his analysis of the weaponized media now paralyzing so much of our thought, and tells us what we have to do - collectively - to build our immunity to thought viruses. Together Karafiath and Rushkoff look at the ways we might redeploy memetic power to foster positive social change. You can learn more about Karafiath's work at www.purposeandplay.com or follow h
Ep. 31 R.U. Sirius "Counter What?"
A unique episode of Team Human, on today's show Douglas Rushkoff is joined by longtime friend and counterculture legend R.U. Sirius (aka Ken Goffman), founding editor of Mondo 2000. R.U. will help us evaluate the place of the counterculture in the digital landscape. Is counterculture even possible today? Is humanity itself the counterculture as we resist increasingly quantified and abstracted lives? Together R.U. and Rushkoff playfully and thoughtfully examine these questions while asserting tho
Ep. 30 Bas van Abel "Fingerprints on the Touchscreen"
Playing for Team Human today is Bas van Abel. Bas is the founder of Fairphone, which began with the radical idea that technology should be built without exploiting human laborers and destroying the planet. Van Abel's experiment of building a "fair" phone has taken him around the world to witness first-hand the lives made invisible in the digital supply chain. Bas and Douglas talk about how putting people first requires both a redesign of economic systems and a reshaping of our individual perspec
Ep. 29 Caroline Jack "What Counts As Propaganda?"
Playing for Team Human today is media historian and theorist Caroline Jack. Caroline is a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Data + Society Research Institute. In today's episode Caroline and Douglas explore how powerful people and institutions shape networked civic life through media and communications technology. Caroline has us think deeply and broadly about corporate personhood, imagined machines, epistemological chaos… in other words–media and persuasion.You can find more of Caroline Jack’s work
Ep. 28 Alex Rivera "Globalization From Below"
Playing for Team Human today is digital media artist, activist, and filmmaker Alex Rivera. Known for his acclaimed 2008 feature film, Sleep Dealer, Rivera's work explores the contradictions of a free-flowing globalized economy and the simultaneous stigmatizing of immigrant laborers and erecting of border walls. Together, Rivera and Douglas Rushkoff interrogate the rhetoric of the digital "global village." We'll learn about what Rivera calls "Dronification," a highly connected, yet ever-more
Ep. 27 Alnoor Ladha "Rewriting the Rules"
Playing for Team Human today is activist trainer and executive director of theRules.org, Alnoor Ladha.Ladha will help us understand the interplay between political organization, system thinking, storytelling, technology, and the decentralization of power. In a conversation spanning a wide range of topics including anarchism, collective organizing, local economies, psychedelics, and even spirituality, Ladha and Rushkoff underscore the multifaceted and necessary work of building a r
Ep. 26 Jason Van Anden "Mobile Justice"
Playing for Team Human today is Jason Van Anden. Jason is an artist, inventor, and software developer who builds apps to promote social justice. In 2011, Van Anden invented I’m Getting Arrested, software that enabled Occupy Wall Street demonstrators to alert friends and family in the event they were arrested. In 2012 Van Anden developed Stop and Frisk Watch , a tool used to monitor the New York City Police Department’s controversial practice. Van Anden has since has gone on to head Quadrant 2, d
Ep. 25 Danne Woo "Visualizing Reality"
Playing for Team Human today is data-visualization humanist Danne Woo. Woo is going to share with us how he uses data to provoke critical thinking, humor, and even human connection with his creative design. Woo is the creator of Data Visual a user-friendly web-based design interface that empowers individuals to create their own shareable data-driven graphics. We'll learn why the Trump presidency has inspired Woo to design "a chart a day" and to "make tweets trump again".&nbs
Ep. 24 Brian Fitzgerald “The Power of Play”
Playing for Team Human today is Brian Fitzgerald, co-founder of Tinkergarten. Tinkergarten began as the passion project of Brian and his wife, Meghan, a long-time educator. As new parents, Brian and Meghan were looking for hands-on, outdoor learning experiences for their daughter. Unable to find any, they started Tinkergarten. Today, Tinkergarten is a growing community focused on bringing memorable, tactile, and outdoor educational play opportunities to children and parents. Brian shares how his
Ep. 23 Silvia Zuur “Progress Through Collaboration”
Playing for Team Human today is Silvia Zuur. In 2012, Zuur founded Chalkle to reignite adult education in New Zealand. Today, Zuur serves as a director at Enspiral, a social impact network that builds community driven solutions for a diverse set of issues including education, funding, and cooperative organizing. Enspiral is famously home to Loomio, a cooperative founded 2012 to create more effective tools for collaborative decision-making. Zuur joins Douglas Rushkoff to talk about the value of o
Ep. 22 Zach Leary “It’s All Happening”
This week’s Team Human is part 2 of a fascinating conversation between longtime friends Zach Leary and Douglas Rushkoff. Check out part 1 over on Zach’s show, It’s All Happening. Rushkoff and Zach take a winding path through the “psychedelic substrate” of digital technology, looking back at the strange trips that birthed the modern web and virtual space of the internet. Most importantly, Leary and Rushkoff retrieve those human connections; the compassion, vision, an
Ep. 21 L.A. Kauffman “Direct Action”
Playing for Team Human today is L.A. Kauffman. Douglas met with Kauffman on the eve of the release of her new book, Direct Action, Protest and the Reinvention of American Radicalism, published by Verso press. Direct Action charts a history of renewal and reinvention in activist movements since the 1960s with a focus on how we might learn from both the successes and failures of our radical past.In today’s episode, L.A. offers an invigorating commitment to protest, grassroots organizing, and the f
Ep. 20 Jonathan Larsen “Fake Reality”
Playing for Team Human is Jonathan Larsen. Larsen is a journalist, comedy writer, and TV producer who has worked on the Daily Show w/ Jon Stewart, Up w/ Chris Hayes, and Countdown w/ Keith Olbermann. Larsen recently launched TheFingNews.com, a news digest that brings context, analysis, and humor to the daily news.Jonathan joins Douglas Rushkoff to talk about the Fucking News and the new Indivertible Guide. In a wide-ranging conversation, Larsen and Rushkoff look behind the scenes of reporting an
Ep. 19 Brian Hughes “Distributed Solidarities and Extremism”
Playing for Team Human is Brian Hughes. Brian is a recent graduate of the Media Studies Graduate Program at CUNY Queens College, home to Team Human and the Laboratory for Digital Humanism. Hughes’s work explores media origins and portrayals of extremism. On today’s episode, Hughes begins by sharing his research on Arab Nationalism as related to media technologies from global broadcast to networked communications. Using his recent MA thesis as the springboard, Hughes and Rushkoff take
Ep. 18 Ari Wallach “Longpath Thinking”
Playing for Team Human Today is Ari Wallach. In a conversation that spans politics, technology, history, and even biology, Wallach and Rushkoff look at the threat of short-term thinking in times of crisis. This freewheeling discussion tackles deep assumptions of both the Left and the Right, while striving toward a long-term strategy for rebuilding solidarity and progress in society.Visit Ari’s website AriWallach.com to learn more about his work. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on
Ep. 17 Viktor Zaunders “Permaculture”
Playing for Team Human today, all the way from Sweden, is local food facilitator Viktor Zaunders. Zaunders is working to organize sustainable, regenerative, and collaborative local food systems. In this episode, Zaunders and Douglas talk about permaculture and the lessons that can be applied to social systems at large.Visit Viktor’s website zaunders.net to learn more about the variety of projects he is working on.In this interview, Zaunders mentions Open Source Ecology. They provide a weal
Ep. 16 Natalie Foster “Future of Work”
Playing for Team Human today is Natalie Foster. Foster brings a unique determination and optimism to questions surrounding the future of work. Her research as a fellow of the Aspen Institute Future of Work Initiative and as an affiliate at the Institute for the Future focuses on rebuilding the social contract for the changing landscape of labor in the 21st century. On today’s episode, Foster and Rushkoff discuss worker protections, cooperative ownership, precarious labor, and the future of
Ep. 15 Julie Holland MD “Finding the Others”
Playing for Team Human today is psychiatrist, psychopharmacologist, and psychedelics researcher Dr. Julie Holland. Dr. Holland explains the role of psychedelics in helping people gain the new forms of information and awareness they need to become more fully human. Is there the potential for greater understanding and human connection through the psychedelic experience? Together Holland and Rushkoff explore this question, charting out a path toward greater empathy and solidarity.Today’s mono
Ep. 14 Post-Election Special: The Trump Opportunity
Rushkoff visits greatagain.gov and conducts a thought experiment: what if we all apply to work in Trump’s administration? A post-election special episode. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Ep. 13 Kyra D. Gaunt Ph.D. “Full Spectrum Humanity”
Playing for Team Human is author, activist, ethnomusicologist and singer Kyra Gaunt Ph.D. Kyra’s research on the harassment of young women and people of color has recently focused on the YouTube phenomenon of twerking videos and trolling. In today’s episode Kyra and Douglas talk about invisible audiences and their effect on social media interaction. Kyra warns how persistent media disproportionately stigmatizes marginalized communities. She offers strategies to reclaim “full sp
Ep. 12 Mushon Zer-Aviv “Reambiguation”
Playing for Team Human is Mushon Zer-Aviv. Mushon shares his creative strategies for resistance against assimilation into the big data mindset. His playful, interactive designs turn the cult of data collection on its head, re-ambiguating humans and embracing the most quirky, inspired, and anomalous aspects of our lives. Mushon’s recent project, AdNauseam.io challenges surveillance advertising by feeding it back into itself. Check out this and his many projects linked below. You can also l
Ep. 11 Steve Lambert “Public Displays of Collaboration”
Playing for Team Human is art activist Steve Lambert. Steve reclaims public spaces with his work, igniting the radical imagination and critical thinking of his audience collaborators. With his recent piece, “Capitalism Works For Me!(True/False),” Lambert brought an interactive scoreboard out to the public, and in doing so, sparked an honest, candid, and personal discussion about how the economy is working for people.Lambert is a founder and director of the Center for Artistic Activis
Ep. 10 Aaron Dignan “Hacking the Corporation”
Playing for Team Human is Aaron Dignan. Aaron is a strategist, author, and founder of the Ready, where he works on updating the “organizational operating systems” of business. Dignan has advised top executives at global brands including GE, Ford, and American Express. In today’s episode, Aaron and Douglas speak candidly about what goes on behind the scenes in the halls of corporate power. Can businesses be redesigned into more meaningful and cooperative work structures in the g
Ep. 09 D.C. Vito “Media Literacy”
Playing for Team Human today is D.C. Vito, Executive Director of The LAMP (Learning About Multimedia Project). The LAMP brings hands-on media education into underserved communities, empowering students and teachers with the skills needed to comprehend, create, and critique media. In today’s episode, D.C. and Douglas make the concept of “media literacy” tangible for an interactive media era, while unmasking the social programming lurking just behind the screen.Learn more at thel
Ep. 08 Heather Dewey-Hagborg
Playing For Team Human today, the brilliant and terrifying artist and bio-hacker Heather Dewey- Hagborg. As a transdisciplinary artist, Heather explores the intersection of science, art and biopolitics. Heather recently made the headlines with a project called Stranger Visions, in which she collected random human genetic material left behind in the detritus of public spaces to generate portrait masks of strangers using a process called forensic DNA phenotyping.In another recent project, Radical
Ep. 07 Marina Gorbis at PDF2016
Today’s Team Human was recorded live on the floor of the 2016 Personal Democracy Forum, where we caught up with Marina Gorbis, executive director to the Institute for the Future (IFTF). Marina joins Team Human to help us see how a utilitarian value set has been embedded into our society and its technologies. Together Marina and Douglas discuss those ambiguous and even anomalous qualities of being human, while looking to a future that embraces humanity as something greater than mere data po
Ep. 06 Kio Stark “Talk to Strangers”
Playing for Team Human today is Kio Stark. Kio’s new book When Strangers Meet explores the transformative power to be found in person-to-person interactions with strangers. Kio describes how even a brief interaction can foster empathy and open up the possibility for meaningful human connection. Kio and Douglas challenge the unwritten rules of social interaction and talk about how basic human connection can spark positive social change.Links:Kio’s recent New York Times travel feature,
Ep. 05 Andy Bichlbaum “Playful Resistance”
Playing for Team Human today: Andy Bichlbaum of the infamous Yes Men, the world’s most accomplished working culture hackers, responsible for devastating satirical attacks on Dow Chemical, Halliburton, Exxon, the US Chamber of Commerce, Dupont, and others.Bichlbaum is going to share with us the secret to fighting against even violent oppression with playful resistance.After listening to the show, check out the Yes Lab, a resource for playful resisters everywhere. http://yeslab.org/And check
Ep. 04 Micah White “Permanent Revolution”
Today on Team Human we’re looking at protest. While we may be willing to raise our voices, sign petitions, and even get arrested, are we willing and ready to take hold of power? Author, activist, and Occupy Wall Street co-creator Micah White gives a passionate assessment of the state of protest today while putting forth his own vision for revolutionary social change or what he calls, The End of Protest.Micah is also currently running for Mayor of Nehalem, Oregon. View his campaign here.If
Ep. 03 Esteban Kelly “Solidarity”
Playing for Team Human is Esteban Kelly. Kelly is an exemplary leader in the movement for promoting solidarity and workplace democracy. While working with the Mariposa Food Co-op, Kelly founded the Food Justice and Anti Racism working group. He was also appointed by the Mayor of Philadelphia to the Philadelphia Food Policy Advisory Council. Currently, Esteban Kelly serves as Co-Executive director of the US Federation of Worker Cooperatives as well as a director of AORTA, the Anti- Oppression Res
Ep. 02 Richard Maxwell “Greening the Media”
Special Pre-Launch Episode: Recorded January 2016Playing for Team Human today is Professor Richard Maxwell. Richard Maxwell is a political economist of media. His research begins at the intersection of politics and economics to analyze the global media, their social and cultural impact, and the policies that regulate their reach and operations. Richard has published on a wide array of media topics. Recent work includes The Routledge Companion to Labor and Media (Editor) Media and the Ecological
Ep. 01 Astra Taylor and Thomas Gokey
Joining team human are debt resisters Astra Taylor and Thomas Gokey. Astra Taylor is a filmmaker, writer, activist, and musician. Her films include the documentaries Zizek! and the Examined Life. Taylor’s recent book The People’s Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age takes a hard look at the persisting and embedded inequalities in today’s digital media landscape. Thomas Gokey is a visual artist, adjunct professor at Syracuse University, and activist. Gokey’s piece entitled,