

Team Human
Douglas Rushkoff
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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Dec 23, 2020 • 59min
Riane Eisler "From Domination to Partnership"
Playing for Team Human today, social systems scientist, cultural historian, and author of "Nurturing Our Humanity," Riane Eisler.Eisler helps us see how to transcend the dominator model in economics, politics, and our personal interactions to find new ways to partner with one another, and everything. How we can tell an integrated story to combat a regressive economic and social agenda?In his opening monologue, Rushkoff explores how intimacy and uncertainty help make podcasting a special and unique medium. He also looks at how robots are not doing a better job doing labor, but rather have become more efficient at hiding human labor. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dec 16, 2020 • 5min
Harvey Pekar: Bonus 2009 Interview - Patreon Special
This is a special preview of a bonus episode featuring American comic book writer Harvey Pekar in conversation with Douglas Rushkoff in 2009 on WFMU's Media Squat. You can listen to the full episode by supporting Team Human on Patreon. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dec 8, 2020 • 43min
Julia Watson "Survival of the Most Symbiotic"- Live from IMPAKT Festival
Playing for Team Human today, designer, activist, academic, and author of Lo-Tek Radical Design by Radical Indigenism, Julia Watson.Watson discusses how we can respond to climate change by utilizing millennia-old knowledge about how we can live in symbiosis with nature. What are the cultural preconditions required to implement a living bridge and other indigenous technologies? How can western society better create technology through the elements that already exist in our surrounding environment?In his opening monologue, Rushkoff explains how progress became associated with colonialism and advocates for us to retrieve circular and advanced mechanisms for human and interspecies flourishing. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nov 25, 2020 • 45min
Sonia Shah "We're Always Strangers, Ourselves" - Live from IMPAKT Festival
Playing for Team Human today, investigative journalist and author of “The Next Great Migration: The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move,” Sonia Shah. Shah challenges conventional assumptions about migration and reveals how it has long been central to the human experience. Further, she looks ahead to how climate change will force the next great human migration, and how we can all view each other not as strangers, but as fellow humans.In his opening monologue, Rushkoff connects the plight of billionaire technologists imagining apocalyptic scenarios and building bunkers with the migration patterns of the Israelites in Torah. "We'll always be welcoming strangers because we'll always be strangers, ourselves."This episode of Team Human was recorded live at IMPAKT Festival 2020 from Utrecht. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nov 18, 2020 • 5min
David Lynch: Bonus 1986 Interview - Patreon Special
A young Douglas Rushkoff sits down with David Lynch weeks after the release of Lynch's Blue Velvet. In a wide-ranging conversation, Lynch discusses what it feels like to, "make it" in the film industry and Lynch's filmmaking process. You can listen to the full conversation by becoming a contributing supporter now: patreon.com/teamhuman Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nov 11, 2020 • 48min
George Dyson "Nature is on Team Machine
Playing for Team Human today, author and technology historian, George Dyson.Dyson helps us take a less human-centered perspective on our place in the cosmos for our own - and everything's - best interest.In his opening monologue, Rushkoff discusses the imperative to not hold grudges after the presidential election and pays tribute to his late friend, Mark Filippi. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Oct 28, 2020 • 56min
Jessica Gordon Nembhard "Black Ideas Matter"
Playing for Team Human today, Professor of Community Justice and Social Economic Development at Jon Jay College and author of Collective Courage: A History of African American Economic Thought and Practice, Jessica Gordon Nembhard.Jessica shows us how black communities already developed the circular economic mechanisms that the rest of us need in order to dig out of the repressive weight of exploitation.In his opening monologue, Rushkoff discusses how the made-for-television format of United States presidential debates does more harm than good for democracy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Oct 21, 2020 • 6min
Joanna Harcourt-Smith: Bonus 2009 Interview - Patreon Special
Here’s a sneak peak of a conversation between Joanna Harcourt-Smith and Douglas Rushkoff from 2009. available in-full exclusively to Patreon supporters. Support at Patreon.com/TeamHuman for access to the full interview and all of our bonus content. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Oct 14, 2020 • 59min
Marina Gorbis "Mutuality"
Playing for Team Human today, Executive Director of Institute for the Future, Marina Gorbis. Gorbis discusses what she believes to be the real solution to our economic and social problems: Mutuality. She explores the psychological effect of how trust in American civic and social institutions has so quickly eroded, why scale is anti-human, and our best chance at making our ideas actionable. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sep 30, 2020 • 1h 13min
Grant Morrison "Freaks Like Us"
Playing for Team Human today, storyteller and mage, Grant Morrison.Morrison discusses the magical power of art and storytelling. How can we transform the physical world through narrative? How does the hero’s journey create narcissistic personalities, and what are alternative models of storytelling? Morrison and Rushkoff weave through magic and metaphors to envision a more distributed world. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.