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‘A devastating portrait of the cultures and logics underlying big
tech. Rushkoff is going to make you mad enough to fight back. A
vital, lucid, and enraging read.’ Naomi Klein, author of This
Changes Everything The tech elite have a plan to survive the
apocalypse: they want to leave us all behind. When Douglas
Rushkoff was summoned to the desert to a private talk for the rich
and powerful, he learned about ‘The Mindset’: a theory that
inevitable societal catastrophe can be evaded by individuals with
enough money and the right technology. Here, Rushkoff traces the
evolution of The Mindset through its origins in science and
technology to its current expression in missions to Mars, island
bunkers, and the Metaverse. This mind-blowing work of social
analysis shows us how to transcend the landscape The Mindset has
created — a world alive with algorithms and intelligences
actively rewarding our most selfish tendencies — and rediscover
community, mutual aid, and human interdependency.Â
Five mysterious billionaires summoned Douglas Rushkoff to a desert
resort for a private talk. The subject? How to survive the "Event":
the societal collapse they know is coming. Rushkoff argues that
these men were under the influence of The Mindset, a Silicon
Valley–style certainty that they and their cohort can escape a
disaster of their own making—as long as they have enough money
and the right technology. Rushkoff traces the origins of The
Mindset in science and technology through its current expression in
missions to Mars, island bunkers, AI futurism, and the metaverse.
Through fascinating characters—master programmers who want to
remake the world as if redesigning a video game and bankers who
return from Burning Man convinced incentivized capitalism will
prevent environmental disasters—Rushkoff explains why those with
the most power to change the world have no interest in doing so. He
argues that the only way to survive the coming catastrophe is to
ensure it doesn’t happen by rediscovering community, mutual aid,
and human interdependency. Anticipating the mass layoffs and
institutional collapse that have recently rocked Silicon Valley,
Rushkoff’s Survival of the Richest is "a necessary and timely
read" (Los Angeles Review of Books) with a prophetic message about
the future of tech and our human community.
Douglas Rushkoff has spent nearly a decade advising companies on
the ways they can re-orient their businesses to the transformations
the internet has caused. Through his speaking and consulting,
Rushkoff has discovered an important and unrecognized shift in
business. Too many companies are panicked and operating in survival
mode when the worst of the crisis has already passed. Likening the
internet transformation to the intellectual and technological
ferment of the Enlightment, Rushkoff suggests we have a remarkable
opportunity to re-integrate our new perspective with the work we
actually do. Instead of running around trying to "think out of the
box," Rushkoff demonstrates, now is the time to "get back in the
box" and improve the way we do our jobs, run our operations and
drive innovation from the ground up. Combining stories gleaned from
his consulting with a thrilling tour of history's dramatic moments
and clever readings of cultural shift we've just experienced,
Rushkoff offers a compelling vision of the simple and effective
ways businesses can re-invigorate themselves.
Media literacy educators have always insisted that we are both
creators and receivers of media messages. The truth of this is even
more apparent in today's digital environment, with children and
adults alike participating in a ubiquitous, nonstop stream of
social media. Clearly, students need the tools to interpret news
and information critically-not just for school but for life in a
"post-truth" world, where the lines blur between entertainment,
information and persuasion. Renee Hobbs demonstrates how a global
perspective on contemporary propaganda enables educators to
stimulate both the intellectual curiosity and the cultural
sensitivities of students. Replete with classroom and online
learning activities and samples of student work, Mind Over Media
provides a state-of- the-art look at the theory and practice of
propaganda in contemporary society and shows how to build learners'
critical thinking and communication skills on topics including
computational propaganda, content marketing, fake news and
disinformation.
A revealing and beautifully open memoir from pioneering industrial
music artist, visual artist, and transgender icon Genesis
P-Orridge-now in paperbackIn this groundbreaking book spanning
decades of artistic risk-taking, the inventor of "industrial
music," founder of Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV, and
world-renowned fine artist with COUM Transmissions, Genesis
P-Orridge (1950-2020) takes us on a journey searching for identity
and their true self. It is the story of a life of creation and
destruction, where Genesis P-Orridge reveals their unwillingness to
be stuck-stuck in one place, in one genre, or in one gender.
Nonbinary is Genesis's final work and is shared with hopes of being
an inspiration to the newest generation of trailblazers and
nonconformists.Nonbinary is the intimate story of Genesis's life,
weaving the narrative of their history in COUM Transmissions,
Throbbing Gristle, and Psychic TV. It also covers growing up in
World War II's fallout in Britain, contributing to the explosion of
new music and radical art in the 1960s, and destroying visual and
artistic norms throughout their entire life. In addition to being a
captivating memoir of a singular artist and musician, Nonbinary is
also an inside look at one of our most remarkable cultural lives
that will be an inspiration to fans of industrial music,
performance art, the occult, and a life in the arts.
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In one hundred lean and incisive statements, Douglas Rushkoff
argues that we are essentially social creatures and that we achieve
our greatest aspirations when we work together-not as individuals.
Yet today society is threatened by a vast antihuman infrastructure
that undermines our ability to connect. Money, once a means of
exchange, is now a means of exploitation; education, conceived as a
way to elevate the working class, has become another assembly line;
and the internet has only further divided us into increasingly
atomised and radicalised groups. Team Human delivers a call to
arms. If we are to resist and survive these destructive forces, we
must recognise that being human is a team sport. In Rushkoff's own
words: "Being social may be the whole point". Harnessing
wide-ranging research on human evolution, biology and psychology,
Rushkoff shows that when we work together we realise greater
happiness, productivity and peace. If we can find others who
understand this fundamental truth and reassert our
humanity-together-we can make the world a better place to be human.
In one hundred lean and incisive statements, Douglas Rushkoff
argues that we are essentially social creatures and that we achieve
our greatest aspirations when we work together-not as individuals.
Yet today society is threatened by a vast antihuman infrastructure
that undermines our ability to connect. Money, once a means of
exchange, is now a means of exploitation; education, conceived as a
way to elevate the working class, has become another assembly line;
and the internet has only further divided us into increasingly
atomised and radicalised groups. Team Human delivers a call to
arms. If we are to resist and survive these destructive forces, we
must recognise that being human is a team sport. In Rushkoff's own
words: "Being social may be the whole point". Harnessing
wide-ranging research on human evolution, biology and psychology,
Rushkoff shows that when we work together we realise greater
happiness, productivity and peace. If we can find others who
understand this fundamental truth and reassert our
humanity-together-we can make the world a better place to be human.
Five mysterious billionaires summoned Douglas Rushkoff to a desert
resort for a private talk. The topic? How to survive The Event: the
societal catastrophe they know is coming. Rushkoff came to
understand that these men were under the influence of The Mindset,
a Silicon Valley-style certainty that they can break the laws of
physics, economics and morality to escape a disaster of their own
making-as long as they have enough money and the right technology.
In Survival of the Richest, Rushkoff traces the origins of The
Mindset in science and technology through its current expression in
missions to Mars, island bunkers and the Metaverse. This
mind-blowing work of social analysis shows us how to transcend the
landscape The Mindset created-a world alive with algorithms and
intelligences actively rewarding our most selfish tendencies-and
rediscover community, mutual aid and human interdependency. Instead
of changing the people, he argues, we can change the programme.
How to repair the disconnect between designers and users, producers
and consumers, and tech elites and the rest of us: toward a more
democratic internet. In this provocative book, Ramesh Srinivasan
describes the internet as both an enabler of frictionless
efficiency and a dirty tangle of politics, economics, and other
inefficient, inharmonious human activities. We may love the
immediacy of Google search results, the convenience of buying from
Amazon, and the elegance and power of our Apple devices, but it's a
one-way, top-down process. We're not asked for our input, or our
opinions-only for our data. The internet is brought to us by
wealthy technologists in Silicon Valley and China. It's time,
Srinivasan argues, that we think in terms beyond the Valley.
Srinivasan focuses on the disconnection he sees between designers
and users, producers and consumers, and tech elites and the rest of
us. The recent Cambridge Analytica and Russian misinformation
scandals exemplify the imbalance of a digital world that puts
profits before inclusivity and democracy. In search of a more
democratic internet, Srinivasan takes us to the mountains of
Oaxaca, East and West Africa, China, Scandinavia, North America,
and elsewhere, visiting the "design labs" of rural, low-income, and
indigenous people around the world. He talks to a range of
high-profile public figures-including Elizabeth Warren, David
Axelrod, Eric Holder, Noam Chomsky, Lawrence Lessig, and the
founders of Reddit, as well as community organizers, labor leaders,
and human rights activists.. To make a better internet, Srinivasan
says, we need a new ethic of diversity, openness, and inclusivity,
empowering those now excluded from decisions about how technologies
are designed, who profits from them, and who are surveilled and
exploited by them.
Why doesn't the explosive growth of companies such as Facebook and
Uber deliver more prosperity for everyone? How could things be
different? In San Francisco in 2013 activists protesting against
the gentrification of their city smashed the windows of a bus
carrying Google employees to work. But these protests weren't just
a question of the activists versus the Googlers, or even the 99 per
cent versus the 1 per cent. Rather they were symptomatic of the
true conflict of our age, between humanity as a whole and a digital
economy in which boundless growth is valued above all else. In this
groundbreaking book, Douglas Rushkoff - named one of the world's
ten most influential thinkers by MIT - lays out a ground plan for a
different economic and social future. Ranging from big data to the
rise of robots, from the gig economy to the collapse of the
eurozone, Rushkoff shows how we can combine the best of human
nature with the best of modern technology to achieve a state of
sustainable, distributed wealth. It's time the economy finally
worked for the human beings it's supposed to serve. 'Douglas
Rushkoff is one of today's most incisive media theorists and a
provocative critic of our digital economy. He's also fun to read'
WALTER ISAACSON, president and CEO, The Aspen Institute, and author
of Steve Jobs and The Innovators 'If you don't know Rushkoff,
you're not serious about figuring out what's going to happen next'
SETH GODIN, author of Purple Cow and Tribes
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Aleister & Adolf (Paperback)
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The tech elite have a plan to survive the apocalypse: they want to
leave us all behind. Five mysterious billionaires summoned Douglas
Rushkoff to a desert resort for a private talk. The topic? How to
survive 'The Event': the societal catastrophe they know is coming.
Rushkoff came to understand that these men were under the influence
of 'The Mindset', a Silicon Valley-style certainty that they can
break the laws of physics, economics, and morality to escape a
disaster of their own making - as long as they have enough money
and the right technology. In Survival of the Richest, Rushkoff
traces the origins of The Mindset in science and technology through
its current expression in missions to Mars, island bunkers, and the
Metaverse. This mind-blowing work of social analysis shows us how
to transcend the landscape The Mindset created - a world alive with
algorithms and intelligences actively rewarding our most selfish
tendencies - and rediscover community, mutual aid, and human
interdependency. Instead of changing the people, he argues, we can
change the programme.
Set in the near-future (2008), Exit Strategy is a darkly comic
send-up of the dot.com mania of the late 1990s and a modern-day
retelling of the story of Joseph. Like Joseph, Jamie Cohen is
betrayed by his compadres but unexpectedly finds himself at the
right hand of power. He helps a huge venture capitalist build
pyramids - except these are investment pyramids based on technology
idols. An additional narrative conceit is this: 200 years later,
anthropologists find the virtual manuscript of Exit Strategy and
begin annotating the text. Hundreds of readers have already
contributed footnotes for the book - they are charming, wacky,
compelling and Rushkoff has selected one hundred of his favorites
for inclusion.
Noted media pundit Douglas Rushkoff gives a devastating critique of the influence techniques behind our culture of rampant consumerism. With a skilled analysis of how experts in the fields of marketing, advertising, retail atmospherics, and hand-selling attempt to take away our ability to make rational decisions, Rushkoff delivers a bracing account of why we buy what we buy, and helps us recognize when we're being treated like consumers instead of human beings.
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