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Team Human
Douglas Rushkoff sits down with scientists, activists, artists, philosophers, and researchers asking the same question: who actually benefits from the way we've built this world — and what do we do about it? Team Human is a weekly podcast about technology, power, consciousness, and what it means to...
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402 episodes
Do Tech Billionaires Want Us Dead? (w/ Taylor Lorenz)
Is the online safety legislation moving through Congress actually a Trojan horse for mass surveillance? And do the tech billionaires building our futu...
The Esoteric State of the Union: Magic, Will, and the New Neighborhood with Mitch Horowitz
Is magic just "positive thinking," or is it a causative force that can reshape reality?
Rushkoff sits down with occult historian and author Mitc...
Is It Fascism or Just a Lack of Impulse Control? With Jonathan Larsen
We are no longer waiting for the other shoe to drop: We are living in the aftermath. Rushkoff sits down with Jonathan Larsen, editor of The Fucking Ne...
We’re Soaking In It: Why It’s Too Late to Prepare for Authoritarianism
The other shoe finally dropped. We are no longer waiting for authoritarianism to arrive; we are soaking in it.
Rushkoff argues that the time for...
We Are Time Travelers: Retrocausality & The Long Self with Eric Wargo
Playing for Team Human today, multidisciplinary researcher and author Eric Wargo joins Rushkoff to help us decolonize our minds from the linear march...
Cameron Berg: Alien Minds & Self-Other Overlap - Teaching AI Empathy
Artificial Intelligence researcher Cameron Berg joins Rushkoff to discuss Frontier Alignment Research and the urgent need to intervene on behalf of hu...
You're Not Crazy: Reality Has Grown Absurd
If explaining the state of the world makes you feel like a conspiracy theorist, you aren't alone.
In this monologue, Rushkoff argues that our bu...
Tom Llewellyn: Is Sharing the New Satanism?
Tom Llewellyn, Executive Director of Shareable, explores the power of Libraries of Things, mutual aid, and community-run infrastructure as practical a...
Ari Kuschnir: Trump Ayahuasca - AI and the Alchemical Imaginary
Ari Kuschnir, AI storyteller and artist, takes us deep into the alchemy of AI storytelling as a form of social practice and activist imagination.
Cracks in the Pavement
Rushkoff discusses why the urgency and inevitability of our situation calls for us to consider the impossible.
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Vicki Robin: Parable of the Tribes
Vicki Robin, author of classic books like Your Money or Your Life and Blessing and The Hands That Feed Us, and Rushkoff seek to embrace this challengi...
Jeremy Lent: Reweaving Civilization
Jeremy Lent, author of The Patterning Instinct and integrator, helps us investigate the patterns of thought that have led our civilization to its curr...
Arden Leigh: Chasing the Hungry Ghosts
Arden Leigh , the creator and facilitator of The Re-Patterning Project and front woman of Arden and the Wolves, helps us negotiate a new relationship...
The Joy of Becoming Worthless…except to each other
Could the end of employment be the beginning of something better? Rushkoff traces the history of work from medieval markets to AI automation to find h...
Jonathan Larsen: This is Just the Beginning - Enacting the Team Human Agenda
Jonathan Larsen, Founder of The Fucking News, joins Rushkoff to discuss the 2025 U.S. Election and the path forward for Team Human.
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Andrew Slack: Superman vs Ubermensch
Andrew Slack, comedian and writer of Orphans, Empires, and the Search for a Better World, discusses the hidden history of corporate power, the mythic...
Cory Doctorow: Enshittification is Not Inevitable
Cory Doctorow, author of Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It, unpacks the systemic forces behind digital monop...
The Intentional Collapse
Rushkoff offers a new way to interpret what appears to be the intentional dismantling of society as we know it: an elite who have lost faith in the sy...
Can Collapse Benefit Everyone? Luke Kemp: Goliath's Curse
Luke Kemp, author of Goliath’s Curse, explores why civilizations fall, what history gets wrong about collapse, and how distributed, cooperative societ...
Will AI Kill Us for the Lulz? Nate Soares: If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies
Nate Soares, computer scientist and author of If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies, discusses the existential risks posed by artificial intelligence, th...
Jonathan Larsen: The Easy Way or The Hard Way
Jonathan Larsen, Founder of The Fucking News, brings perspective, humor, and humanism to the tragic and ridiculous phenomena unfolding in the world.
AI Just Ate Language: The End of the Age of Horus
Rushkoff invites us to join him in metabolizing the challenges and opportunities of our AI-driven moment. In this monologue, Rushkoff highlights the d...
R.U. Sirius: Reality is up For Grabs
R.U. Sirius, Founding Editor of Mondo 2000 and author, discusses how intentional weirdness is a powerful tool for community and resistance when the fi...
Borrow a Drill, Save the World
Rushkoff explains why borrowing a drill is a revolutionary act.
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Camille Sojit Pejcha: Sex vs. Capitalism
Writer, editor, and Founder of Pleasure-Seeking.com, and host of the Pleasure Seeking podcast Camille Sojit Pejcha explore Pejcha’s recent sex trend f...
Liana Sananda Gillooly: Is Sobriety the Future of Psychedelics?
Liana Gillooly, an advocate for purpose-built ecosystems and psychedelics, joins Rushkoff for a conversation about the evolving landscape of psychedel...
Is it Okay to Feel Good in the Midst of Chaos?
Douglas Rushkoff reflects on the importance of joy and human connection amid vast global suffering. He offers a poignant reminder to follow our bliss....
From Meta to Soma: Rushkoff on New Models
Rushkoff joined Carolina Busta and Lil Internet for a conversation about the evolution of the Internet, media theory, psychedelics, and more. Learn mo...
Matthew Remski: Antifascist Dad
Matthew Remski, Host of Conspirituality and author of the forthcoming Antifascist Dad, helps us find a new kind of resistance to the atmosphere of vio...
Duncan Trussell: AI is a Magic Mirror
Duncan Trussell, comedian and Host of the Duncan Trussell Family Hour, joins Rushkoff to explore how we can best metabolize rising geopolitical tensio...
Eliott Edge: Magic and Mocktails
Eliott Edge revisits his first book, Three Essays in Virtual Reality, while giving us a sneak preview of his thinking for his upcoming opus on Simulat...
Don’t Shoot the Messenger: AI is not the problem
Each supposed AI “problem” stems from a lack of imaginative capacity from us. We are refusing the opportunity to rethink more fundamental assumptions...
De Kai: Humans Get ONE Shot to Parent AI
De Kai, the man who built the world’s first global translators and AI systems, says we better learn to parent our AI offspring before it’s too late. T...
Vanessa Machado de Oliveira: Outgrowing Modernity
Playing for Team Human today, LatinX professor, and the author of Hospicing Modernity as well as the upcoming book Outgrowing Modernity, my favorite c...
Erik Davis: AI, Weirdness, and Windows to Other Worlds
Playing for Team Human today, the author of TechGnosis, High Weirdness, and the just released history of the LSD medium Blotter, esoteric scholar Erik...
Life is Not a Simulation: It's Magic
Rushkoff explains the two ways we can understand magic in order to experience more of our embodied lives.
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Alex Kazemi: Live from The Strand
Playing for Team Human today, Canadian pop artist, author, journalist, magician, and CEO of VOID Collective, Alex Kazemi.
New Millennium Boyz: h...
David Bollier: The Commons Are Not a Tragedy
Playing for Team Human today, activist, Blogger, and Director of the Reinventing the Commons
Program at the Schumacher Center for a New Economic...
Conner Habib: Live Up To Your Fool Potential
Playing for Team Human today, novelist, spiritualist and host of the podcast Against Everyone, my friend Conner Habib. This conversation continues tom...
The Fascist Atmosphere
Has digital technology turned us all into fascists?
Rushkoff explores fascism as an environment in which we live, rather than the specific ideo...