Team Human with Douglas Rushkoff

The Internet Felt Like This in 1994. AI Might Be Our Last Chance.

Rushkoff shares his first real foray into the world of Artificial Intelligence. After years of avoiding the technology, Douglas takes us through a vibe coding journey using Claude to rebuild his personal website in five hours. But this isn't a tech tutorial. Douglas weighs the incredible creative potential of AI against its heavy unseen costs: environmental destruction, resource depletion, and labor displacement. He contrasts his vision for a peer-to-peer Amazon killer built by social activists with the chilling surveillance infrastructure being developed by tech billionaires like Larry Ellison. 🤝 Team Human is proudly supported by Groucho. You can take 50% off your first month by using promo code "teamhuman": https://mygroucho.club/teamhuman [https://mygroucho.club/teamhuman] Download Groucho:  Apple: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/groucho/id6756526142?ct=teamhuman&mt=8 [https://apps.apple.com/us/app/groucho/id6756526142?ct=teamhuman&mt=8] Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.trampoline.groucho&utm_source=website&utm_medium=landing&utm_campaign=teamhuman [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.trampoline.groucho&utm_campaign=teamhuman&utm_medium=landing&utm_source=website] Follow Team Human with Douglas Rushkoff: Instagram: https:/www.instagram.com/douglasrushkoff [https:/www.instagram.com/douglasrushkoff] YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/@douglasrushkoff   [https://www.youtube.com/@douglasrushkoff] TikTok:  https://www.tiktok.com/douglasrushkoff   [https://www.tiktok.com/douglasrushkoff] Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/rushkoff.com [https://bsky.app/profile/rushkoff.com] Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands [https://redcircle.com/brands] Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy [https://redcircle.com/privacy]

Disaster Capitalism and the Case for Leveling Down - Rushkoff on Crazy Town

Have you ever had that feeling in your gut, when you suddenly realize that the person you’re talking with might have a screw or two loose? What about when you’re the one others are trying to slowly back away from at the punch bowl? The question of who’s the real nut often arises for us collapse-aware folks living here in Crazy Town [https://www.resilience.org/crazy-town-podcast/]. Since Mr. Peanut is no longer returning their phone calls, hosts Rob, Jason, and Asher invited Rushkoff to answer the question. In this far ranging conversation, they discuss why “leveling down” might be the best strategy for navigating late stage capitalism and bringing ourselves back into right relationship with each other and the planet. You can stream and subscribe [https://www.resilience.org/crazy-town-podcast/] to Crazy Town wherever you get your podcasts. Support Team Human for access to exclusive Q&As with Rushkoff, early show premieres, bonus webinars, live events, and more: https://www.patreon.com/teamhuman [https://www.patreon.com/teamhuman] Follow Team Human with Douglas Rushkoff: Instagram: https:/www.instagram.com/douglasrushkoff YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@douglasrushkoff TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/douglasrushkoff Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/rushkoff.com Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands [https://redcircle.com/brands] Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy [https://redcircle.com/privacy]

The Lobotomy of History: Reclaiming Our Extraordinary States (w/ Jeffrey Kripal)

Can we decolonize reality itself? Rushkoff is joined by Jeffrey Kripal, Associate Dean and Professor at Rice University, to discuss his book The Superhumanities: Historical Precedents, Moral Objections, New Realities Kripal argues that by stripping away the impossible parts of our history - visions, precognition, and altered states - we have essentially lobotomized the humanities, leaving us with a depressing, purely political version of ourselves. Together, they explore: * The Secular Flatland: Moving beyond a strictly materialist worldview that reduces human beings to data points. * The Vertical Dimension: Why extraordinary experiences are more common than we admit and how they serve as a first-person way of knowing the world. * The Marketing Problem: Why the humanities should embrace the "Superhuman" to reclaim their transformative, ecstatic power. * Reality Hacking: How literature and art function as non-specific amplifiers for consciousness. It’s time to put the weird back on the table and acknowledge that the human experience is far more fantastic than our current systems allow. Support Team Human for access to exclusive Q&As with Rushkoff, early show premieres, bonus webinars, live events, and more: https://www.patreon.com/teamhuman [https://www.patreon.com/teamhuman] Follow Team Human with Douglas Rushkoff: Instagram: https:/www.instagram.com/douglasrushkoff YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@douglasrushkoff TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/douglasrushkoff Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/rushkoff.com Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands [https://redcircle.com/brands] Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy [https://redcircle.com/privacy]

The Holy War Delusion: Is it Time to Retire Our Religions?

In this urgent monologue, Rushkoff explores the heartbreaking crisis of modern faith. As religious identities are weaponized by nationalism, literalism, and holy war narratives, from Christian Zionism to the defense of the nation-state, we find ourselves trapped in a linear, Axial Age story that may no longer serve a digital, all-at-once humanity. In this episode, Rushkoff discusses: - The Brand of Religion: How the conduct of states like Israel and the rise of Christian Nationalism are making traditional faith feel untenable for the people who hold it.- - The Literalism Trap: Why treating a transcendental narrative as a "real estate deed" kills the spiritual project. - Media Theory of God: How the shift from the Age of the Book to a new media environment requires us to graduate from religion rather than be destroyed by it. - The Two Anti-Semitisms: Navigating the crossfire between the Right’s hatred of "globalists" and the Left’s critique of colonialism. Is it time to retire these ancient institutional containers before they lead us to a self-fulfilling Armageddon? Or can we retrieve the living, human layers of our faiths and bring them forward into a new, restorative context? Support Team Human and gain access to ad-free shows, exclusive Q&A livestreams, live events, books, and more: https://www.patreon.com/teamhuman Follow Team Human with Douglas Rushkoff: Instagram: https:/www.instagram.com/douglasrushkoff YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@douglasrushkoff TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/douglasrushkoff Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/rushkoff.com Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands [https://redcircle.com/brands] Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy [https://redcircle.com/privacy]

Grant Morrison: The Enemies of Humanity Are Wielding Occult Power

The tech elite are wielding occult power, but we have the imagination. Join us in the live chat for our first-ever Team Human Premiere! Douglas Rushkoff sits down with legendary comic writer and chaos magician Grant Morrison for a deeply urgent conversation about reclaiming reality. Morrison argues that magic isn't just the supernatural; it's a mundane, everyday tool of collective agreement that we are all already using. While billionaires use algorithmic binding spells to predict our moves and trap us in a boring, materialist nightmare, we possess the ultimate counter-measure: our collective imagination.Finding the others is no longer enough. It's time to stop being NPCs in someone else's sterile simulation and start authoring our own pro-human reality. Team Human is proudly sponsored by Everyone's Earth. Learn more about Everyone's Earth: https://everyonesearth.com/ Change Diapers: https://changediapers.com/ Cobi Dryer Sheets: https://cobidryersheets.com/ Use the code “rush10” to receive 10% off of Cobi Dryer sheets: https://cobidryersheets.com/ Support Team Human on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/teamhuman [https://www.patreon.com/teamhuman] Follow Team Human with Douglas Rushkoff: Instagram: https:/www.instagram.com/douglasrushkoff YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@douglasrushkoff TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/douglasrushkoff Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/rushkoff.com Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands [https://redcircle.com/brands] Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy [https://redcircle.com/privacy]