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Douglas Rushkoff
A deep dive into one of this century's most potent questions: do we direct technology, or do we let ourselves be directed by it?
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Mara Einstein
Combining industry interviews, advertising campaign analysis, and business and scholarly research, Hoodwinked offers an insider's view into how marketers co-opt our emotions in the name of corporate profits. Armed with…
The tech elite have a plan to survive the apocalypse: they want to leave us all behind.
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Genesis P-Orridge
A revealing and beautifully open memoir from pioneering industrial music artist, visual artist, and transgender icon Genesis P-Orridge
Cultural theorist Rushkoff reveals how corporations have come to dominate all aspects of life–including our inner lives–and what to do about it. In tracing the roots of corporatism from the…
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Why doesn’t the explosive growth of companies such as Facebook and Uber deliver more prosperity for everyone? How could things be different? In this book, the author lays out a…
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mn ideas-led documentary written in 1994 about the converging strands of this new era, the empowerments of cyber-technology and the emergent hacker and cyber milieu. The second edition contains new…
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Douglas Rushkoff was mugged outside his apartment on Christmas Eve, but when he posted a friendly warning on his community website, the responses castigated him for potentially harming the local…
Likening the internet transformation to the intellectual and technological ferment of the Enlightment, the author suggests we have a remarkable opportunity to re-integrate our new perspective with the work we…
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Makes a far-reaching, accessible case the positive impact that digital technologies will have on our ability to participate more actively and thoughtfully. This book includes not just examples but ideas…
Why do we always listen to what they say? A noted media pundit gives a devastating critique of the influences behind the culture of rampant consumerism, showing how the media…
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People spent the twentieth century obsessed with the future. We created technologies that would help connect us faster, gather news, map the planet, and compile knowledge. We strove for an…
"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
This paperback edition with a new preface and community action guide published 2017 –Title page verso.
'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…
Douglas Rushkoff’s latest salvo on complacent media culture, set in 2008, features Jamie Cohen, a young hacker who, like the biblical Joseph, suffers betrayal and then penance (via the talk-show…
Douglas Rushkoff (Queens/CUNY)
The tech elite have a plan to survive the apocalypse: they want to leave us all behind
Team Human is a manifesto-a fiery distillation of preeminent digital theorist Douglas Rushkoff’s most urgent thoughts on civilisation and human nature.
Rabbi Rami Shapiro
Judaism at its best. A return to its essential truths that are too-often ignored in favor of the claims of tradition.
Douglas Rushkoff,Michael Avon Oeming
The original graphic novel Aleister & Adolf in a trade format, with new cover and expanded content –
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Renee Hobbs (University of Rhode Island)
Propaganda is inescapable. It’s everywhere. Students need to analyse, resist, critique-and create.
