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 Merchant LinkedIn | Website 🌍 You can support Team Human on Patreon to unlock access to a number of great perks in...
Feb 21, 2024•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 283
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. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle....
Feb 17, 2024•1 hr 15 min
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 Tsika Noah 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 institut...
Feb 14, 2024•58 min•Ep. 282
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 Lemon Brendon 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 a...
Feb 07, 2024•1 hr 27 min•Ep. 281
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. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: h...
Jan 31, 2024•26 min•Ep. 280
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 Kittelsen Shawn 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 comm...
Jan 24, 2024•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 279
Transdisciplinary artist and biohacker Heather Dewey-Hagborg shares her latest work on future pigs and hybrids. Keep up with Heather Dewey-Hagborg Website | Instagram About Heather Dewey-Hagborg Dr. 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, cigarette...
Jan 17, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 278
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 Bray Rebecca 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 Acti...
Jan 10, 2024•52 min•Ep. 277
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. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https:...
Jan 03, 2024•27 min•Ep. 276
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. Advertising Inquiries: https://re...
Dec 27, 2023•2 hr 1 min
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...
Dec 21, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 275
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 Ross Carne 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 an...
Dec 13, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 274
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 Fry Since 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 Turk...
Dec 06, 2023•56 min•Ep. 273
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 wi...
Nov 29, 2023•33 min•Ep. 272
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...
Nov 22, 2023•1 hr•Ep. 271
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 Bendell Professor 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, ...
Nov 15, 2023•1 hr 23 min•Ep. 270
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 Bateson Nora 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...
Nov 08, 2023•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 269
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 Horowitz Mitch 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-resid...
Nov 01, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 268
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 Ci...
Oct 25, 2023•44 min•Ep. 267
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 Week Podcast 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 session...
Oct 21, 2023•29 min
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 Chalupa Andrea 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, a...
Oct 18, 2023•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 266
In a pause from our normal weekly release, Rushkoff reminds us not to dehumanize each other. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Oct 11, 2023•2 min
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 Tenen Dennis Yi Tenen is an associate professor of English and Compara...
Oct 04, 2023•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 265
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 Jackson Maggie Jackson is an award-winning author and journalist known for her penetrating writings on social tr...
Sep 28, 2023•55 min•Ep. 264
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 on...
Sep 20, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 263
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 aw...
Sep 13, 2023•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 262
Author and activist Naomi Klein and Douglas Rushkoff talk about her new book, Doppelgange r , 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 Klein Website | Twitter About Naomi Klein Naomi Klein is an award-winn...
Sep 06, 2023•1 hr 23 min•Ep. 261
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 Machines Keep up with Madeline Ashby Website | Twitter About Madeline Ashby Madeline Ashby graduated from the first cohort of the M.Des. in Strategic Foresight and Innovation programme at OCADU in 2011. I...
Aug 30, 2023•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 260
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 Patreon t...
Aug 16, 2023•1 hr•Ep. 258
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. Torres Émile P. Torres’ work over the past decade has centered around a single theme: esc...
Aug 09, 2023•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 257
