Team Human

By Douglas Rushkoff

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Team Human is a weekly podcast and set of resources enabling human intervention in the economic, technological, and social programs that determine how we live, work, and interact. This is media as cultural resistance and a path to social change. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Maggie Jackson

09.28.2023

Award-winning author and journalist Maggie Jackson shares some of the insights of her new book, Uncertain: The Wisdom and Wonder of Being Unsure. đïž In his monologue, Rushkoff advocates for a holistic understanding of life - not just individualized, mechanized ...

Team Human episodes:

09.28.2023 Maggie Jackson Award-winning author and journalist Maggie Jackson shares some of the insights of her new book, Uncertain: The Wisdom and Wonder of Being Unsure. đïž In his monologue, Rushkoff advocates for a holistic understanding of life - not just individualized, mechanized ...
09.20.2023 Kibbitz Room XI Playing for Team Human today, itâs Team Human! Douglas Rushkoff hosts the eleventh Team Human call-in show from the community Discord server. This conversation was recorded on Sept. 7, 2023. đïž Team Human Live! Join Douglas Rushkoff in conversation with ...
09.13.2023 Kevin Slavin Working at the intersection of science, technology, and culture, Kevin Slavin introduces us to the weird and wonderful world of microbial sensing â and what pandemics can teach us about the game of life. đïž In his monologue, Rushkoff discusses ...
09.06.2023 Naomi Klein Author and activist Naomi Klein and Douglas Rushkoff talk about her new book, Doppelganger, and take a trip into the mirror world. đïž In his monologue, Rushkoff explains how one white supremacistâs rejection of economic common sense stuck. đ° You ...
08.30.2023 Madeline Ashby Science fiction author and futurist Madeline Ashby helps us understand why Hollywoodâs future belongs to people - not machines. đïžIn his monologue, Rushkoff warns us that spectacle is what prevents us from seeing each other đ° Read Ashbyâs Wired piece, ...
08.23.2023 Paul Austin Founder & CEO of Third Wave and author of Mastering Microdosing Paul Austin helps us make sense of the new landscape of psychedelic therapy and what retrieving our relationship with mycelia may mean for our collective future. đïžIn his monologue, ...
08.16.2023 Kibbitz Room X Playing for Team Human today, itâs Team Human! Douglas Rushkoff hosts the ninth Team Human call-in show from the community Discord server. This conversation was recorded on August 01, 2023. Rushkoff fields questions about the differences between creating content for ...
08.09.2023 Ămile P. Torres Author of Human Extinction: A History of the Science and Ethics of Annihilation Ămile P. Torres talks about TESCREAL- Transhumanism, Extropianism, Singularitarianism, Cosmism, Rationalism, Effective Altruism, and Longtermism. đïž In his monologue, Rushkoff wonders if magic is our probable path ...
08.02.2023 David Brin Scientist, science fiction author, and futurist David Brin shows us how by granting AIâs individuality we can begin to hold them accountable for their actions. đïž In his monologue, Rushkoff discusses his struggles with burnout and how heâs working to ...
07.26.2023 The Life and Thought Crimes of Robert Anton Wilson w/ Gabriel Kennedy Author of Chapel Perilous: The Life and Thought Crimes of Robert Anton Wilson Gabriel Kennedy walks us through the Chapel Perilous and reminds us how important and essential Wilsonâs work is in a world on the brink of conspiratorial madness. ...
07.24.2023 Rushkoff on TrueAnon: Bloodless Hype Machines Douglas Rushkoff joined TrueAnon for a conversation about AI hype cycles and human connection in a digital future. Provided as a special bonus for Team Human Podcast supporters. Originally published July 13, 2023. About TrueAnon TrueAnon is a podcast about ...
07.19.2023 Kibbitz Room IX live from the Team Human Apocalypse Bunker Playing for Team Human today, itâs Team Human! Douglas Rushkoff hosts the ninth Team Human call-in show from the community Discord server. This show was recorded on Friday, June 23, 2023. Rushkoff fields questions about denaturalizing power in comedy, the ...
07.12.2023 Nika Roza Danilova Singer, songwriter, and producer behind Zola Jesus Nika Roza Danilova helps us recognize the power of the arts to reconnect us to the forces of nature. đïž In his monologue, Rushkoff explains why older people make more plausible candidates. đ° ...
07.05.2023 Annie Kelly QAnon Anonymous collaborator, conspiracy researcher, and postdoctoral researcher Annie Kelly helps us navigate the new landscape of conspiracy theory in a digital age. đ In his monologue, Rushkoff explains how the quest for empirical evidence can undermine our power. đ° ...
06.28.2023 Thomas Negovan Symbolist, curator, creator, and editor of a new version of Caligula Thomas Negovan discusses artistic and spiritual responses to the deadening effects of industrialism. đ In his monologue, Rushkoff asks us not to give up our local, home-field advantage by ...
06.22.2023 Kibbitz Room VIII live from the Team Human Apocalypse Bunker Playing for Team Human today, itâs Team Human! Douglas Rushkoff hosts the eighth Team Human call-in show from the community Discord server. This show was recorded on Friday, May 19, 2023. Rushkoff fields questions about how young artists struggle to ...
06.14.2023 Gary Marcus Cognitive scientist, social entrepreneur, and author of Rebooting AI Gary Marcus helps us parse between the real and imagined threats of AI, shares his recent experience testifying before Congress, and discusses his plans to intervene on our behalf. đïž In ...
06.07.2023 Douglas Rushkoff: I Will Not Be Autotuned - Live from All Tech is Human's Responsible Tech Mixer Douglas Rushkoff took the stage at All Tech is Humanâs Responsible Tech Mixer to explain why he refuses to be autotuned in the face of technosolutionism and the rise AI. Recorded April 26, 2023, at Betaworks in New York City. ...
06.02.2023 Malcolm Harris Author of Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and The World Malcom Harris helps us understand the history and foundations of the Silicon Valley mindset so we can better respond to its destructive capacity today. đ In his monologue, ...
05.16.2023 Fenton Bailey TV Producer and Author of Screenage: How TV Shaped Our Reality From Tammy Faye to RuPaulâs Drag Race Fenton Bailey discusses the nature of the screen and the power it has unleashed for a designer reality. đ In his monologue, ...
05.08.2023 Kibbitz Room VII live from the Team Human Apocalypse Bunker Playing for Team Human today, itâs Team Human! Douglas Rushkoff hosts the seventh Team Human call-in show from the community Discord server. This show was recorded on Friday, April 28, 2023. Rushkoff fields questions about how AI will influence art ...
04.24.2023 Rex Weyler Cofounder of Greenpeace and writer of the Deep Green column Rex Weyler helps us transcend the idea that we can fix the environment â or anything else â so we can finally learn to participate as members of a living ...
04.14.2023 Claire Leibowicz, Justin Hendrix, John Borthwick, and Douglas Rushkoff - live at Betaworks Head of the AI and Media Integrity Program at the Partnership on AI (PAI) Claire Leibowicz, Tech Policy Press CEO and Editor Justin Hendrix, Betaworks CEO John Borthwick, and Douglas Rushkoff come up with guiding principles for the future of ...
03.30.2023 Marina Gorbis & Jerry Davis Executive Director of the Institute for the Future Marina Gorbis and Institute for the Future Equitable Enterprise Initiative Advisor Jerry Davis discuss how to change the register from industrial values to collaborative commerce. đ In his monologue, Rushkoff explains how ...
03.20.2023 Alissa Quart Executive Director of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and author of Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream Alissa Quart helps us dispel the myth of the self-made man once and for all. đ In his monologue, Rushkoff explains why ...
03.07.2023 Kibbitz Room V live from the Team Human Apocalypse Bunker Playing for Team Human today, itâs Team Human! Douglas Rushkoff hosts the sixth Team Human call-in show from the community Discord server. This show was recorded on Friday, February 17, 2023. Rushkoff fields questions about virtual realityâs potential to transform ...
02.23.2023 Alex Holland Journalist, Tea Pub operator, and Founder of SolarPunk Stories Alex Holland helps us learn to tell better and more constructive stories about our collective future. đ In his monologue, Rushkoff explains how AI can be compared to the Conquistadors. đ° ...
02.15.2023 Jeff Emmett Co-founder of the Commons Stack and Token Engineering researcher at BlockScience Jeff Emmett tells us about the wonders of mycelia - and why we may all want to start considering ourselves mycopunks. đ In his monologue, Rushkoff explains how the ...
02.10.2023 Micah Sifry Organizer, The Connector journalist, and author of The Big Disconnect Micah Sifry helps us evaluate how directly we need to be involved in political activism to keep democracy sustainable. đ In his monologue, Rushkoff shares a story about how the ...
01.26.2023 Kibbitz Room V live from the Team Human Apocalypse Bunker Playing for Team Human today, itâs Team Human! Douglas Rushkoff hosts the fifth Team Human call-in show from the community Discord server. This show was recorded on Friday, January 20, 2023. Rushkoff fields questions about how AI will change the ...
01.11.2023 Jessamyn West Library technologist, owner of MetaFilter, and author of Without a Net: Librarians Bridging the Digital Divide, Jessamyn West shares the joys of hands-on technology education in the public library - and how modeling behavior may just work better than scaling ...
01.04.2023 Mitch Horowitz 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 weâre praying to the wrong gods. đ In his monologue, Rushkoff discusses the ...
12.24.2022 Infectious Altruism - Holiday Special In a special holiday message, Rushkoff imagines a world where infectious - not effective - altruism is the goal of communities. đ Thank you to everyone who supported Team Human this year. We wish you a safe, healthy, and happy ...
12.21.2022 Kibbitz Room IV live from the Team Human Apocalypse Bunker Playing for Team Human today, itâs 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 ...
12.14.2022 Molly White 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 â and helps us figure out how much skepticism to have about the blockchain. ...
12.01.2022 Eric Zimmerman 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. đ In his monologue, Rushkoff discusses longtermism, metamodernism, and optimizing ...
11.23.2022 Noah Hutton 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. đ In his monologue, Rushkoff discusses big techâs search for the ultimate escape ...
11.16.2022 Cory Doctorow 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 ...
11.09.2022 Surviving Apocalyptic Economics w/ Cory Doctorow and Rebecca Giblin - Live from Ottawa International Writers Festival 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 ...
11.03.2022 Greg Barris Comedian and Creator of the Deep Healing Podcast Greg Barris shares the open secret to collective healing: Laughing together. đ In his monologue, Rushkoff shares the real promise of shared virtual realities đ° You can read a written version of ...
10.19.2022 In Celebration of Speculative Fiction: 22 Ideas About The Future Book Launch w/ Eva Pascoe, Stephen Oram, and Benjamin Greenaway 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 CyberSalonâs 22 Ideas About The Future. How does speculative fiction help us ...
10.06.2022 Kibbitz Room III live from the Team Human Apocalypse Bunker Playing for Team Human today, itâs 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 ...
09.23.2022 Clinton Ignatov 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. đ In his monologue, Rushkoff explains how our ...
09.16.2022 Sherry Turkle 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 ...
09.14.2022 Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires - Twitter Spaces w/ Adrienne Gibbs 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. đ Team Human is made possible ...
09.09.2022 Jenny Odell 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 ...
09.06.2022 Survival of the Richest On this weekâs episode, Douglas Rushkoff offers a special excerpt of his new book, Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires. đ Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires is now available wherever books ...
08.31.2022 Paris Marx Author of Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong About the Future of Transportation and Host of Tech Wonât Save Us Paris Marx helps us see how the future of transportation imagined by our techno-benefactors may best be understood ...
08.24.2022 Marc Brickman 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. đ In his monologue, Rushkoff ...
08.10.2022 Janelle Orsi Playing for Team Human today, Co-Founder of the Sustainable Economies Law Center and Senior Advisor to the Institute For The Futureâs Equitable Enterprise Initiative, Janelle Orsi helps Rushkoff overcome his dream for a turn-key solution for greater wealth distribution. đ ...

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Team Human episodes:

Maggie Jackson

Kibbitz Room XI

Kevin Slavin

Naomi Klein

Madeline Ashby

Paul Austin

Kibbitz Room X

Ămile P. Torres

David Brin

The Life and Thought Crimes of Robert Anton Wilson w/ Gabriel Kennedy

Rushkoff on TrueAnon: Bloodless Hype Machines

Kibbitz Room IX live from the Team Human Apocalypse Bunker

Nika Roza Danilova

Annie Kelly

Thomas Negovan

Kibbitz Room VIII live from the Team Human Apocalypse Bunker

Gary Marcus

Douglas Rushkoff: I Will Not Be Autotuned - Live from All Tech is Human's Responsible Tech Mixer

Malcolm Harris

Fenton Bailey

Kibbitz Room VII live from the Team Human Apocalypse Bunker

Rex Weyler

Claire Leibowicz, Justin Hendrix, John Borthwick, and Douglas Rushkoff - live at Betaworks

Marina Gorbis & Jerry Davis

Alissa Quart

Kibbitz Room V live from the Team Human Apocalypse Bunker

Alex Holland

Jeff Emmett

Micah Sifry

Kibbitz Room V live from the Team Human Apocalypse Bunker

Jessamyn West

Mitch Horowitz

Infectious Altruism - Holiday Special

Kibbitz Room IV live from the Team Human Apocalypse Bunker

Molly White

Eric Zimmerman

Noah Hutton

Cory Doctorow

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

Greg Barris

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

Kibbitz Room III live from the Team Human Apocalypse Bunker

Clinton Ignatov

Sherry Turkle

Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires - Twitter Spaces w/ Adrienne Gibbs

Jenny Odell

Survival of the Richest

Paris Marx

Marc Brickman

Janelle Orsi

Ămile P. Torres