Author of The Web of Meaning and The Patterning Instinct, Jeremy Lent joins Douglas Rushkoff for a special Team Human Salon live from Team Human’s Discord community. Here’s a sneak preview of their conversation. Originally recorded August 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.

Author and activist Naomi Klein joins the host to discuss the peril of narrative in society and how ecology can provide a grand narrative. The episode also covers combating addiction to conspiracy theories, reflecting on media ecology, the evolution of branding and consumer culture, reimagining tech companies, addressing economic inequality, and the importance of authentic connections and wisdom.

Cofounder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, lyricist for the Grateful Dead, and psychedelic hero John Perry Barlow (1947-2018) and Rushkoff discuss the the War on Drugs and the widespread fear of computers in a conversation recorded circa 1992. Here, Barlow introduces Rushkoff to the phrase “cultural immune response,” which later served as inspiration for 1995’s Media Virus. 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.

Author of The Patterning Instinct and The Web of Meaning, Jeremy Lent helps us see through to the meaning that informs our science so that it can be used to embrace the paradox of our existence, rather than reducing it down to a form suitable only for exploitation.In his monologue, Rushkoff explores how well-natured attempts to improve language will almost always fall short because of the underlying structure of the language we use. “We must also accept that language is just another medium that will almost always fail to say what we truly mean.”📚 You can read Rushkoff’s “What if All Language is Oppressive?” on Medium.📖 The Web of Meaning is available now. It’s an important refutation of the orthodox materialism that is plaguing science and culture. It’s a helpful reminder that those of us experiencing the world as a meaningful place are not the crazy ones.🌍Jeremy Lent will be joining Team Human’s official Discord channel on Friday, August 6, at 1:00 PM ET for a special Team Human Salon.Begin supporting Team Human on Patreon today for as little as $2 per month to gain access to our Discord community, the Team Human Team Feed featuring bonus content, 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.

Here’s a sneak preview of this week’s Team Human Patreon-exclusive bonus content: Rushkoff, information artist and bio-hacker Heather Dewey-Hagborg, and visiting Assistant Professor of Practice of Interactive Media Joerg Blumtritt participate in ‘An Oral History of the Internet’. Rushkoff shares his early experience of the internet how the internet has changed over time. This project was sponsored by the NYUAD Art Gallery and the NYUAD Institute. Originally recorded June 9, 2021.🌍 You can become a contributing supporter of Team Human for as little as $2 per month by visiting: patreon.com/teamhuman. When you join 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.

Co-Founder & Director of the Institute for the Study of Energy & Our Future, Nate Hagens deconstructs some of our deeply held beliefs about climate change and offers us a few dangerous and inexpensive ways to keep our species sustainably happy. How can we learn to live with less?📺 Watch Nate Hagens’ Earth and Humanity: Myth and Reality Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Here's a preview of this week's bonus episode: Sand Talk author Tyson Yunkaporta joins Douglas Rushkoff in Team Human's High Fidelity spatial audio room for a special salon. Team Human teammates were granted a special opportunity to join live. Originally recorded on May 8, 2021. You can gain full access to this conversation by becoming a supporter today at: patreon.com/teamhuman Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Comedian, composer, contemporary buddhist, and host of the Duncan Trussell Family Hour Duncan Trussell and Rushkoff travel far and wide through spirituality and synchronicity to help us discover what it means to be truly human, together. Is the hope that life — and conversations, themselves — continue after death? How can humans grapple with the Buddhist belief of truly learning to let go of “the dream”? Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Here's a preview of this week's Team Human bonus content: A talk Rushkoff gave about the late Robert Anton WIlson and his notion of the chapel perilous. Rushkoff shares the story of the first time he met RAW and why RAW believed a skeptic's worldview isn't safer than any other worldview. This talk includes a conversation with The Stoa's Rebecca Fox and Peter Limberg. Recorded March 2021. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Writer, philosopher, and author of The Fall of Language, Alex Stern helps us distinguish who we are from what we tweet. Further, he explores how enlightenment values end up turning into their opposite — and why the word “fascism” can be a barrier to understanding culture. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.