RUSHKOFF

Playing for Team Human today, historian of alternative spirituality and author of Uncertain Places: Essays on Occult and Outsider Experiences, Mitch Horowitz helps us figure out if we’re praying to the wrong gods.

🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff discusses the real and imagined dangers of artificial intelligence.

📰 You can read a written version of Rushkoff’s monologue, The Medium is the Message, on Medium.

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 illuminates outsider history, explains its relevance to contemporary life, and reveals the longstanding quest to bring empowerment and agency to the human condition.

📕 Mitch Horowitz’s new book, Uncertain Places: Essays on Occult and Outsider Experiences, is now available.

Keep up with Mitch Horowitz:

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In a special holiday message, Rushkoff imagines a world where infectious - not effective - altruism is the goal of communities.

🙏 Thank you to everyone who supported Team Human this year. We wish you a safe, healthy, and happy holiday season.

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Playing for Team Human today, it’s Team Human! Douglas Rushkoff hosts the fourth Team Human call-in show from the community Discord server.

Rushkoff fields questions about how his views on internet privacy have evolved over the last two decades, the different sensibilities of young generations, and his recent writing.

🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff discusses the changes he would make to Twitter if he became CEO of the platform.

📰 You can read a written version of Rushkoff’s monologue, If I Were CEO of Twitter, on Medium.

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Software engineer, computer scientist, and creator of Web3 Is Going Just Great Molly White helps us determine whether Web3 is really going just great for humanity — and helps us figure out how much skepticism to have about the blockchain.

🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff discusses how 2022 was the year tech bro lunacy was exposed.

📰 You can read a written version of Rushkoff’s monologue, The Year Tech Bro Lunacy Was Exposed, on Medium.

Keep up with Molly White:

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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:

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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.

Keep up with Noah Hutton:

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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 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.

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

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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.

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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.

For more about Greg Barris

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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.

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