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 consc...
Jan 06, 2021•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 173
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 un...
Dec 23, 2020•1 hr•Ep. 172
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 . Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Dec 16, 2020•6 min
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 environmen...
Dec 08, 2020•44 min•Ep. 171
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 bi...
Nov 25, 2020•45 min•Ep. 170
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 Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy...
Nov 18, 2020•6 min
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. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy...
Nov 11, 2020•49 min•Ep. 169
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 ...
Oct 28, 2020•57 min•Ep. 168
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. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Oct 21, 2020•8 min
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. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy...
Oct 14, 2020•59 min•Ep. 167
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. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy...
Sep 30, 2020•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 166
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. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Sep 29, 2020•16 min
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 Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy...
Sep 09, 2020•7 min
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 h...
Sep 02, 2020•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 164
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. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Aug 26, 2020•8 min
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 say...
Aug 19, 2020•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 163
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 p...
Aug 05, 2020•52 min•Ep. 162
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 ...
Jul 22, 2020•53 min•Ep. 161
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 an...
Jul 08, 2020•52 min•Ep. 160
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 silo...
Jun 24, 2020•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 159
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 ...
Jun 10, 2020•57 min•Ep. 158
Playing for Team Human today, senior lecturer in Indigenous Knowledges at Deakin University in Melbourne and author of " Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save The World ," Tyson Yunkaporta Yunkaporta helps us apply an indigenous lens to see our global crises in a more actionable and inclusive way. Where did western culture go wrong? How did the shift from a circular understanding of time to a linear model of time affect human perception of progress? How did indigenous practices of psychede...
May 27, 2020•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 157
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 st...
May 13, 2020•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 156
Playing for Team Human today, national baseball writer for the Wall Street Journal and author of " Swing Kings " Jared Diamond Diamond discusses how technological advancements have changed the fun and quirky ways that baseball organizations construct their teams and play the game. Why are baseball players changing their swings in order to hit more home runs? What is behind baseball’s desire to compete for the same college graduates who want to work for Amazon, Google, and major tech companies? I...
May 07, 2020•55 min•Ep. 155
Playing for Team Human today, activist and a Founder of the Yellow Vest Movement, Priscillia Ludosky Ludosky will be showing us how a movement uniting the agendas of the people transcends the sensibilities of both the left and the right. How can solidarity serve as the ground for sustainable social change? How can an environmental movement weigh the concerns of the environment with the economic needs of the working class? How did the Yellow Vest Movement plan and organize their actions? On Real ...
Apr 29, 2020•54 min•Ep. 154
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...
Apr 22, 2020•53 min•Ep. 153
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 t...
Apr 15, 2020•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 152
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 mi...
Apr 01, 2020•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 151
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 G...
Mar 18, 2020•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 150
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...
Mar 04, 2020•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 149
