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Award-winning author and host of Discovery/HBO’s Alien Encounters: Fact or Fiction Mitch Horowitz helps us create the conditions for a tide pool where only rivers seem to flow. This conversation was recorded on December 10, 2024, at CX in New York City.

Join Douglas Rushkoff in conversation with PEN award-winning author, speaker, and narrator Mitch Horowitz for a special Team Human Live on December 10 at CX in New York City.

Harvard & MIT Humanist Chaplain and Author of Tech Agnostic Greg Epstein helps us understand the Silicon Valley religion.In his monologue, Rushkoff reminds us about the importance of mutual aid in our communities and the ways AI and Big Tech are fueling a return to historical norms of inequality.

Rushkoff reflects on the US election and reminds us how we can center mutual aid and community support to foster resilience.

Host of The RegenNarration Anthony James makes the case for us to pause long enough for the planet to do its thing.

Douglas Rushkoff celebrates the release of Program Or Be Programmed: Eleven Commands For The AI Future in a special Q&A with cultural analyst Matt Klein. Recorded Friday, October 4, 2024.

Musician, composer, and ceremonial accompanist East Forest engages with us on the occasion of the release of the movie about his work, Music For Mushrooms.

Rushkoff argues that we can confront vibe shifts through the stories we tell ourselves.

Rushkoff discusses the vibe shift he has undergone and the ways we can approach situations we can't control with compassion and care.

Leader of Tamera's Institute for Global Peacework and storyteller behind the new documentary Water is Love Martin Winiecki explains what water wants – and how human beings can facilitate its movement and save our planet for ourselves, and other fellow species.

Occult researcher and Founder of Dangerous Minds Richard Metzger explains why it’s time we leverage the magical sensibilities of popular culture to the pro-human agenda.Support Richard Metzger’s Magick Show: A Masterclass in Modern Occultism featuring Douglas Rushkoff, Grant Morrison, Mitch Horowitz, Jamie Cohen, and many more!

Rushkoff discusses the easiest, funnest, and most likely path to averting apocalypse.

Rushkoff discusses how AI teaches us to distinguish between art and industry.

Playing for Team Human today, it's Team Human! Rushkoff and artist, animator, and musician Brynna Campbell field questions from the Team Human Discord community about American authoritarianism, post-Covid lockdown education, protests, and AI.

Rushkoff discusses why he’s breaking from the preferred publishing schedules of advertisers and algorithms in favor of a more considerate approach.

Author Joanne McNeil shares the inspiration for her new novel, Wrong Way, and the profound beauty of human connection.About Joanne McNeilJoanne McNeil is the author of the novel WRONG WAY (2023) and LURKING (2020). She was the inaugural winner of the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Art Foundation's Arts Writing Award for an emerging writer. She has been a resident at Eyebeam, a Logan Nonfiction Program fellow, recipient of the Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant, and an instructor at the School for Poetic Computation. She grew up in Brockton, MA and is currently based in Los Angeles.

Dr. Julie Holland, Paul D. Miller (DJ Spooky), Ken Jordan, and Rushkoff discuss the psychedelic origins of the internet the way tech bros want to monopolize psychedelics as an industry. This conversation was recorded at The Athenæum on January 24, 2024.

Playing for Team Human today, it's Team Human! Rushkoff responds to questions and comments submitted by Team Human members from our Discord server. It's a test-drive of what we hope to develop into a live call-in show.

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Douglas Rushkoff shares why we need to distinguish between models and reality.