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 gener...
Dec 01, 2022•1 hr 27 min•Ep. 231
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 ...
Nov 23, 2022•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 230
Journalist and author of C hokepoint 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. 📖 C...
Nov 16, 2022•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 229
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. 📖 C hokepoint 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 ...
Nov 09, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 228
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 Barris Twitter | Instagram 🌍 Team Human is made possible thanks to the generous support of our listeners on Patreon . Your ...
Nov 03, 2022•36 min•Ep. 227
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 ...
Oct 19, 2022•48 min•Ep. 227
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 wi...
Oct 06, 2022•56 min
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 Ignatov Twitter | ...
Sep 23, 2022•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 224
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, Rushko...
Sep 16, 2022•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 223
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 o...
Sep 14, 2022•35 min
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 | ...
Sep 09, 2022•1 hr•Ep. 222
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 ...
Sep 06, 2022•47 min•Ep. 221
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 bo...
Aug 31, 2022•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 220
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 li...
Aug 24, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 219
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 ...
Aug 10, 2022•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 218
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 F...
Aug 03, 2022•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 216
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 listener...
Jul 27, 2022•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 216
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...
Jul 20, 2022•53 min•Ep. 215
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 th...
Jul 13, 2022•54 min•Ep. 214
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 acc...
Jul 06, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 213
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 ...
Jun 29, 2022•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 212
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 communi...
Jun 15, 2022•43 min•Ep. 211
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 ...
Jun 08, 2022•8 min
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...
Jun 01, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 210
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 Hu...
May 25, 2022•7 min
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 . 🌍 Te...
May 18, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 209
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...
May 11, 2022•11 min
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...
May 04, 2022•1 hr•Ep. 208
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. 👉 Discou...
Apr 27, 2022•6 min
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 Fee...
Apr 20, 2022•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 207
