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Douglas Rushkoff · English · 445 episodes

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Douglas Rushkoff

Weekly · ~1h 01m · since 2016 · 445 episodes

TopicsCulture & arts 43 Technology & AI 36 Media & journalism 18 Science 10 Education 7

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Samantha Sweetwater

Author Douglas Rushkoff's conversations and public monologues. Monologues span topics such as human autonomy, compassion and community, to technology, economics, media environments, magick and the occult, science, and nature. Conversations with fellow writers, artists and thinkers such as Alan Moore, Grant Morrison, Brian Eno, Naomi Klein, Cory Doctorow, and Nora Bateson.
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Networks Don’t Throttle. Platforms Do: Zuck, Musk, and the Eugenics of Selective Reduction

Nov 3 · 1 week ago15 min
Setting Team Human Free

Oct 30 · 1 week ago7 min
Lies We Believe About Data w/ danah boyd

Oct 22 · 3 weeks ago1h 01m
Can Psychedelics Save Humanity? w/ Rick Doblin

Oct 16 · 3 weeks ago1h 11m
Here’s How We Stay Human w/ Samantha Sweetwater

Oct 8 · 1 month ago1h 13m
Here Is Worth Fighting For w/ Naomi Klein & Astra Taylor

Oct 1 · 1 month ago1h 12m
America Is Losing Its Grip on Reality w/ Kurt Andersen

Sep 24 · 1 month ago1h 05m
Make Your Entire Life a Work of Art w/ Kenya (Robinson)

Sep 17 · 1 month ago1h 02m
The Pope Is Officially Team Human w/ Catherine Connors

Sep 9 · 2 months ago57 min
We Survive by Cooperating, Not Competing / w Carne Ross

Sep 2 · 2 months ago56 min
Money is a Forever Chemical

Aug 30 · 2 months ago19 min
Cooking is Under Attack. Here's How to Reclaim It.

Aug 18 · 2 months ago1h 03m
I Gave Up on Saving the World

Aug 12 · 3 months ago19 min
Losing the World to Save It (w/ Conner Habib)

Aug 5 · 3 months ago1h 11m
Can Journalism Survive AI? (w/The Atlantic CEO Nicholas Thompson)

Jul 31 · 3 months ago1h 01m
What Camus Knew That Sam Bankman-Fried Didn't

Jul 26 · 3 months ago35 min
Is AI Development Modern Chaos Magic? (w/ Trevor Paglen)

Jul 21 · 3 months ago1h 04m
How to Glitch the AI System (w/ Sophie Strand)

Jul 14 · 3 months ago1h 03m
Carnival vs. Coliseum: Reclaiming Our Shared Civics

Jul 7 · 4 months ago25 min
Adam McKay: We've Already Left the Holocene

Jul 1 · 4 months ago1h 22m
Formulas Against the False Self: Mitch Horowitz on Left-Hand Path Magic

Jun 24 · 4 months ago1h 21m
The Shoggoth in the Machine: AI, ARGs, and the Future of Play (w/ Reed Berkowitz)

Jun 19 · 4 months ago1h 04m
The Trap of Living Forever (And the Bliss of Letting Go)

Jun 16 · 4 months ago19 min
Stop Chasing the Matrix: How to Live Fully in a Collapsing World (w/ Sarah Wilson)

Jun 11 · 5 months ago1h 14m
Spidey Sense in the Age of AI

Jun 5 · 5 months ago24 min
Alan Moore on Reclaiming Our Imagination from the Authoritarian Overlords

May 28 · 5 months ago1h 20m
How to Survive The Swirl of Grief and Modern Chaos

May 20 · 5 months ago21 min
Gamifying the Apocalypse: Climate Prep, Zombie Games, and Mutual Aid (w/Charlotte Binns)

May 13 · 6 months ago41 min
Escaping the Simulation: A Somatic Guide to Reality

May 6 · 6 months ago25 min
The Magic of the Broken: David J (Bauhaus / Love and Rockets)

Apr 29 · 6 months ago1h 24m
AI Angels, Demons, and the Fight for the Future (w/ Philip Rosedale)

Apr 22 · 6 months ago1h 12m
"What If" Is the Enemy of Fascism (w/Brian Eno)

Apr 15 · 6 months ago1h 20m
Exposing the Billionaire Funding Behind AI Safety Movements (w/ Kat Tenbarge)

Apr 8 · 7 months ago52 min
The Internet Felt Like This in 1994. AI Might Be Our Last Chance.

Apr 2 · 7 months ago22 min
Disaster Capitalism and the Case for Leveling Down - Rushkoff on Crazy Town

Mar 27 · 7 months ago56 min
The Lobotomy of History: Reclaiming Our Extraordinary States (w/ Jeffrey Kripal)

Mar 25 · 7 months ago1h 02m
The Holy War Delusion: Is it Time to Retire Our Religions?

Mar 18 · 7 months ago27 min
Grant Morrison: The Enemies of Humanity Are Wielding Occult Power

Mar 11 · 8 months ago1h 14m
The Tech Elite’s “Frictionless” Fantasy (And Why It Will Fail)

Mar 6 · 8 months ago28 min
The Internet Is an Occult Machine (w/ Shira Chess)

Mar 2 · 8 months ago1h 08m
My Dinner With Jeffrey: What the Epstein Files Reveal About Us All

Feb 26 · 8 months ago31 min
Do Tech Billionaires Want Us Dead? (w/ Taylor Lorenz)

Feb 18 · 8 months ago1h 09m
The Esoteric State of the Union: Magic, Will, and the New Neighborhood with Mitch Horowitz

Feb 11 · 9 months ago1h 16m
Is It Fascism or Just a Lack of Impulse Control? With Jonathan Larsen

Feb 4 · 9 months ago1h 24m
We’re Soaking In It: Why It’s Too Late to Prepare for Authoritarianism

Jan 29 · 9 months ago32 min
We Are Time Travelers: Retrocausality & The Long Self with Eric Wargo

Jan 21 · 9 months ago1h 05m
Cameron Berg: Alien Minds & Self-Other Overlap - Teaching AI Empathy

Jan 15 · 9 months ago1h 11m
You're Not Crazy: Reality Has Grown Absurd

Jan 7 · 10 months ago27 min
Tom Llewellyn: Is Sharing the New Satanism?

Dec 2025 · 10 months ago1h 11m
Ari Kuschnir: Trump Ayahuasca - AI and the Alchemical Imaginary

Dec 2025 · 10 months ago52 min
Cracks in the Pavement

Dec 2025 · 11 months ago18 min
Vicki Robin: Parable of the Tribes

Dec 2025 · 11 months ago1h 21m
Jeremy Lent: Reweaving Civilization

Nov 2025 · 11 months ago53 min
Arden Leigh: Chasing the Hungry Ghosts

Nov 2025 · 11 months ago1h 16m
The Joy of Becoming Worthless…except to each other

Nov 2025 · 1 year ago21 min
Jonathan Larsen: This is Just the Beginning - Enacting the Team Human Agenda

Nov 2025 · 1 year ago1h 01m
Andrew Slack: Superman vs Ubermensch

Oct 2025 · 1 year ago1h 26m
Cory Doctorow: Enshittification is Not Inevitable

Oct 2025 · 1 year ago1h 17m
The Intentional Collapse

Oct 2025 · 1 year ago21 min