Team Human with Douglas Rushkoff

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Noah Hutton Nov 23, 2022

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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.

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Cory Doctorow Nov 16, 2022

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Journalist and author of Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back , Cory Doctorowshares 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.

📖 Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back is now available.

Surviving Apocalyptic Economics w/ Cory Doctorow and Rebecca Giblin - Live from Ottawa International Writers Festival Nov 09, 2022

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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 wherever books are sold.

🎧 Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires is produced by Record Books and narrated by Douglas Rushkoff.

Greg Barris Nov 03, 2022

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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.

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In Celebration of Speculative Fiction: 22 Ideas About The Future Book Launch w/ Eva Pascoe, Stephen Oram, and Benjamin Greenaway Oct 19, 2022

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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.

Kibbitz Room III live from the Team Human Apocalypse Bunker Oct 06, 2022

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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.

Clinton Ignatov Sep 23, 2022

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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.

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Sherry Turkle Sep 16, 2022

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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 Mindsetto 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 reflects on the release of Survival of the Richest and reminds us to engage with the ground — not just the figure.

📕 Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires is now available wherever books are sold.

Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires - Twitter Spaces w/ Adrienne Gibbs Sep 14, 2022

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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.

Jenny Odell Sep 09, 2022

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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.

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📕 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.