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Oct 20, 2021 • 6min

Amber Case Twitter Spaces - Preview

Here’s a special preview of cyborg anthropologist Amber Case's Twitter Spaces event with Douglas Rushkoff. Originally recorded October 6, 2021.🌍 Become a contributing supporter for as little as $2 per month. You’ll instantly gain access to:👉 The Team Human "Team Feed" featuring conversations with Timothy Leary, Terrence McKenna, Joanna Harcourt-Smith, David Lynch, and more.👉 Access to Team Human's community Discord.👉 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. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Oct 13, 2021 • 1h 13min

Ryan Broderick

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.🌍 Team Human is made possible thanks to the generous support of our listeners on Patreon.Follow Ryan Broderick🐦 Twitter | 📸 Instagram | 📰 Garbage Day | 🎙 The Content MinesYou can catch Ryan Broderick at The Meme in the Moment Festival on Wednesday, October 27, at 7:00 PM ET at Caveat NYC. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Oct 6, 2021 • 8min

Sarah Pessin - Preview (2021 Salon)

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.🌍 Become a contributing supporter for as little as $2 per month. You’ll instantly gain access to:👉 The Team Human "Team Feed" featuring conversations with Timothy Leary, Terrence McKenna, Joanna Harcourt-Smith, David Lynch, and more.👉 Access to Team Human's community Discord.👉 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. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Sep 29, 2021 • 1h 3min

Ellen Pearlman

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.🌍 Team Human is made possible thanks to the generous support of our listeners on Patreon. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Sep 22, 2021 • 6min

The Yes Men on Newsmax - Preview

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.Become a contributing supporter for as little as $2 per month. You’ll instantly gain access to:👉 The Team Human "Team Feed" featuring conversations with Timothy Leary, Terrence McKenna, Joanna Harcourt-Smith, David Lynch, and more.👉 Access to Team Human's community Discord.👉 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. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Sep 15, 2021 • 1h 2min

Richard Heinberg

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.🌍 Team Human is made possible thanks to the generous support of our listeners on Patreon. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Sep 8, 2021 • 8min

R. U. Sirius (1993) - Preview

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.Become a contributing supporter for as little as $2 per month. You’ll instantly gain access to:👉 The Team Human "Team Feed" featuring conversations with Timothy Leary, Terrence McKenna, Joanna Harcourt-Smith, David Lynch, and more.👉 Access to Team Human's community Discord.👉 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. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Sep 1, 2021 • 1h 25min

Irwin Kula

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.🌎 Begin supporting Team Human on Patreon today for as little as $2 per month to gain access to our Discord community, live community salons, the Team Human Team Feed featuring bonus content including archived conversations with Timothy Leary and Terence McKenna, t-shirts, and various other digital rewards. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Aug 23, 2021 • 29min

Special Report: Yes Men's Andy Bichlbaum Pranks Newsmax

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.🐦 Follow The Yes Men on Twitter🎧 Andy previously appeared on Team Human Ep. 05 “Playful Resistance”🌍 Team Human is made possible thanks to the generous support of our listeners on Patreon. Begin supporting today for as little as $2 per month to gain access to our Discord community, the Team Human Team Feed featuring bonus episodes, archived conversations with Timothy Leary and Terence McKenna, digital rewards, long sleeve t-shirts, access to virtual salons, and early-access to live events. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Aug 18, 2021 • 1h 7min

Sarah Pessin

Professor of Philosophy and Jewish Thought at the University of Denver Sarah Pessin helps us learn to treasure the great human in-between. The living, delightfully incomplete, and always never-quite-thereness of our collective human journey.🎙In his monologue, Rushkoff discusses how epidemiologists are stuck in a real-time feedback loop with public health — and the importance of cutting people slack.📚You can read the written version of his monologue, Why the CDC Should Have Never Gotten Involved in Manufacturing Consent, on Medium.🌍Team Human is made possible thanks to the generous support of our listeners on Patreon.Begin supporting today for as little as $2 per month to gain access to our Discord community, the Team Human Team Feed featuring bonus episodes, archived conversations with Timothy Leary and Terence McKenna, and digital rewards.As a special bonus, Team Human patrons will receive free admission to a special Team Human Live at Unfinished Live! Details to follow on Patreon. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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