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 ...
Feb 05, 2020•1 hr 5 min•Ep 147•Transcript available on Metacast 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 ear...
Jan 22, 2020•54 min•Ep 146•Transcript available on Metacast 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 add...
Jan 08, 2020•57 min•Ep 145•Transcript available on Metacast 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. ...
Dec 23, 2019•55 min•Ep 144•Transcript available on Metacast 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 treatme...
Dec 11, 2019•46 min•Ep 143•Transcript available on Metacast 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? Furt...
Nov 27, 2019•57 min•Ep 142•Transcript available on Metacast 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 t...
Nov 13, 2019•55 min•Ep 141•Transcript available on Metacast 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....
Oct 30, 2019•1 hr 1 min•Ep 140•Transcript available on Metacast 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.co...
Oct 16, 2019•52 min•Ep 139•Transcript available on Metacast 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...
Oct 02, 2019•1 hr 16 min•Ep 138•Transcript available on Metacast 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 intelligenc...
Sep 18, 2019•55 min•Ep 137•Transcript available on Metacast 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 ...
Sep 04, 2019•1 hr 8 min•Ep 136•Transcript available on Metacast 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 s...
Aug 21, 2019•52 min•Ep 135•Transcript available on Metacast 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 story...
Aug 07, 2019•1 hr 2 min•Ep 134•Transcript available on Metacast 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 ...
Jul 24, 2019•42 min•Ep 133•Transcript available on Metacast 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...
Jul 10, 2019•1 hr 3 min•Ep 132•Transcript available on Metacast 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 d...
Jun 26, 2019•1 hr 14 min•Ep 131•Transcript available on Metacast 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...
Jun 12, 2019•1 hr 11 min•Ep 130•Transcript available on Metacast 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 ...
May 01, 2019•1 hr 1 min•Ep 129•Transcript available on Metacast 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 Archi...
Apr 24, 2019•1 hr 6 min•Ep 128•Transcript available on Metacast 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 ...
Apr 10, 2019•1 hr 20 min•Ep 127•Transcript available on Metacast 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 t...
Apr 03, 2019•1 hr 12 min•Ep 126•Transcript available on Metacast 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 existe...
Mar 27, 2019•59 min•Ep 125•Transcript available on Metacast 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 ...
Mar 20, 2019•1 hr 21 min•Ep 124•Transcript available on Metacast 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...
Mar 13, 2019•1 hr 28 min•Ep 123•Transcript available on Metacast 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 comm...
Feb 27, 2019•1 hr 15 min•Ep 122•Transcript available on Metacast 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...
Feb 20, 2019•1 hr•Ep 121•Transcript available on Metacast 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...
Feb 13, 2019•58 min•Ep 120•Transcript available on Metacast 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. Doug...
Feb 06, 2019•1 hr 2 min•Ep 119•Transcript available on Metacast 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...
Jan 30, 2019•1 hr 9 min•Ep 118•Transcript available on Metacast 
