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Team Human
rather than transforming transactions into human relationships, they’ve done the opposite. Mediated by these platforms, human interactions come to feel more like transactions. Ultimately, they have reduced us to mere Consumers again, in this case not just of online content or even the products of corporations, but of each other.
Jon Alexander • Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us
in a last cynical surrender to the logic of corporatism, we assume the posture and behaviors of corporations in the hope of restoring our lost agency and security. But the vehicles to which we gain access in this way are always just retail facsimiles of the real ones. Instead of becoming true landowners we become mortgage holders. Instead of guidin
... See moreDouglas Rushkoff • Life Inc.
Anything like true social justice, mutual aid, or “team human” as I’ve come to call it, happens in that mycelial, connected, doula space where compassion resides and domination has no place: there are no subjects and objects, just relationships.
Douglas Rushkoff • Everything is In-Between
In his latest work, Program or Be Programmed , the 15th anniversary edition, Rushkoff proposes four methods to avoid being programmed by digital technology, and to instead become the programmers of our world.
What we require is to:
What we require is to:
- Denaturalize power by revealing social constructions which are ideas we merely invented, and are not pre-existing laws w
Matt Klein • Unplugging Is Not the Solution You Want
As the underlying logic, technology, messaging, and remote control of The Mindset is palpable everywhere—school, work, healthcare, warfare, the environment—it’s no wonder so many people are frightened and angry. But instead of pushing for an alternative to the dehumanized, misogynist, antisocial, and catastrophic biases of The Mindset, the resistan
... See moreDouglas Rushkoff • Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires
