Team Human with Douglas Rushkoff

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xiaowei r. wang - Live from Unfinished Live Oct 27, 2021

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Author of Blockchain Chicken Farm and creative director at Logic Magazine Xiaowei Wang helps us contend with the fact that social trust simply may not be something that can scale.

🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff asks why we should create solutions “at scale” if operating at scale, itself, is the problem.

📰 You can read a written version of Rushkoff’s monologue, Exponential Tech Doesn’t Serve Social Good, on Medium.

📖 Blockchain Chicken Farm by Xiaowei Wang is now available at your favorite indie bookstore.

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Amber Case Twitter Spaces - Preview Oct 20, 2021

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Here’s a special preview of cyborg anthropologist Amber Case's Twitter Spaces event with Douglas Rushkoff. Originally recorded October 6, 2021.

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Ryan Broderick Oct 13, 2021

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Garbage Day journalist and host of the Content Mines Podcast Ryan Broderick brings us up-to-date on the current state of meme play.

🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff explores how the World Wide Web flattened a meta-community of digital nomads.

📰 You can read a written version of Rushkoff's monologue, Did the Homepage Kill the Internet?, on Medium.

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You can catch Ryan Broderick at The Meme in the Moment Festival on Wednesday, October 27, at 7:00 PM ET at Caveat NYC.

Sarah Pessin - Preview (2021 Salon) Oct 06, 2021

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Here’s a special preview of Professor of Philosophy and Jewish Thought at the University of Denver Sarah Pessin's live salon with Douglas Rushkoff from a special Team Human Salon live from Team Human’s Discord community. Originally recorded September 3, 2021.

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Ellen Pearlman Sep 29, 2021

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New media artist, curator, writer, and creator of, Noor: A Brain Opera, the world’s first immersive interactive brain opera, Ellen Pearlman brings us where no machine can go: Into the last soft, squishy recesses of human experience still inaccessible to our robot overlords.

🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff reminds us about the importance of reducing our exposure to the global information onslaught.

📚You can read the written version of Rushkoff’s monologue, “Turning off the "News"” on Medium.

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The Yes Men on Newsmax - Preview Sep 22, 2021

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Here’s a special preview of The Yes Men’s Andy Bichlbaum in conversation with Rushkoff explaining how he was invited to return to Newsmax as “Paul Wolfowitz” — and what happened on the air. The Yes Men’s Originally recorded September 11, 2021.

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Richard Heinberg Sep 15, 2021

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Author of Power: Limits and Prospects for Human Survival and senior fellow-in-residence Post Carbon Institute fellow Richard Heinberg shares the simple truth that power has a lot less to do with what you’re granted or what you have than what you do.

🎙In his monologue, Rushkoff explores the opportunity we have to confront the realities of climate change now that its effects are here. “But now that the effects of our own activity are upon us, we have no more power to mitigate them than the toddler does of preventing chest of drawers from toppling over.

📚You can read the written version of Rushkoff’s monologue, “It’s Good to Feel Small” on Medium.

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R. U. Sirius (1993) - Preview Sep 08, 2021

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Founding editor of High Frontiers, Reality Hackers, and Mondo 2000, R. U. Sirius and Douglas Rushkoff discuss Mondo 2000's cultural influence, memes, and how to create a fool proof media virus. This is a special preview of a conversation recorded in 1993.

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👉 Access to Team Human Salons featuring live conversations with Rushkoff.

👉 Bonuses including digital copies of Rushkoff's books, long sleeve t-shirts, and more at various tiers.

Irwin Kula Sep 01, 2021

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President of the National Jewish Center for Leading and Leadership, author of Yearnings: Embracing the Sacred Messiness of Life, and seventh-generation rabbi Irwin Kula brings us through a spiritual journey in the desert — and may just show us the strength to stay there in the in-between.

🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff explains his hope that blockchains and cryptocurrencies can become something other than another asset class for a generation of traders. “Our marketplaces should never be in service to its financial utilities or the people monopolizing them. Nor should the metrics of economic health be based on the requirement of capital to grow.”

📰 You can read Can’t We Use Crypto for Something Other Than Capitalism, a written version of Rushkoff’s monologue on Medium.

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Special Report: Yes Men's Andy Bichlbaum Pranks Newsmax Aug 23, 2021

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On this Team Human special report, The Yes Men’s Andy Bichlbaum explains how he duped Newsmax into letting an imposter former Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz discuss his regret for the Afghanistan War for 11 minutes!

📖 Read The YesLab’s report: “War is all we’ve got // How to invent a great conservative talking point” for a full behind-the-curtain story.

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🎧 Andy previously appeared on Team Human Ep. 05 “Playful Resistance”

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