EPISODE 20 - Open Source Reality with Douglas Rushkoff!
Categories: Podcasts, featured
Written By: Ken
This week we talk to one of my all time favourite writers and thinkers Douglas Rushkoff. In this episode we discuss, Obama’s potential to tap into bottom-up politics, what happens if we stop believing in the economy, Conspiracy Cultre, hacking reality, what the next renaissance might look like, writing comics, why advertising doesn’t work and Magick. I really hope you enjoy this special 20th episode of the show. I’m a HUGE fan of Mr Rushkoff making this a very special episode for me!
Joining me in the examiners chair this week is Media-Underground’s George Mortimer and FINALLY our very own Claire Lumiere!
Daddytank hits in with another baby killingly (this will make sense if you listen) awesome ‘Myspace Heroes’, featuring:
Babies In A Woodchipper
Klam
Made For Chickens By Robots
The Battery Davis
Zano Bathroom
Enjoy!
Douglas Rushkoff Bio (pinched from Wired.com)
Douglas Rushkoff is an author, professor, media theorist, journalist, as well as a keyboardist for the industrial band PsychicTV. His books include Media Virus, Coercion, Nothing Sacred: The Truth About Judaism (a book which opened up the question of Open Source Judaism), Exit Strategy (an online collaborative novel), and a monthly comic book, Testament. He founded the Narrative Lab at New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program, a space which seeks to explore the relationship of narrative to media in an age of interactive technology.
November 30th, 2008 at 4:49 pm
This has been the best episode to date. I need a point of entry into Douglas Rushkoff (Fnaar Fnaar.)
No, I obviously need to read something of his but I don’t know where to start…which one of you lot ( Fanboy Three as I have now christened you after this episode) can tell me the best place to start ?
November 30th, 2008 at 11:23 pm
i really like Cyberia, Children of Chaos and Get Back in the Box, in that order!
November 30th, 2008 at 11:24 pm
argh! I forgot Media Virus! Get that one of Cyberia first
December 1st, 2008 at 8:29 am
Fuck that Zionist scum bag!
December 1st, 2008 at 10:54 am
Yeah, I would go with Media Virus first, as well.
December 1st, 2008 at 10:54 am
whoops, that was me.
December 1st, 2008 at 12:39 pm
“Fuck that Zionist scum bag!”
Shit, Alex Jones found the episode!!
December 1st, 2008 at 2:40 pm
I’m going to buy “Fuck that Zionist scumbag”. It’s on Richard and Judy’s bookclub and it has an awesome title.
December 3rd, 2008 at 5:25 pm
Re: “Fuck that Zionist scum bag!”
Yeah, engaging dialog like this will really make the world a better place.
Keep living in fear. It’s much easier for the Overlords to control your mind.
December 3rd, 2008 at 6:46 pm
This page and some others crash on IE. Which though is not cool with the kids, I still prefer over other browsers. Check for errors with a PC if uploading from a Mac .
December 4th, 2008 at 12:00 am
the episodes are edited on a PC, so I normally post from that.
We had a problem similar to this earlier, i’ll see if it can be sorted for you.
Theres a few alternative ways of getting the eps, either via a podcatcher like iTunes, or from our feedburner feed which is http://feeds.feedburner.com/rightwhereyouaresittingnow
hope that helps!
December 15th, 2008 at 2:13 pm
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December 16th, 2008 at 8:52 am
The girl interrupting Rushkoff was kind of annoying. She’s sounds really sweet and genuine and keen but needs to let him talk. Even an “Oh yeah” kind of screws up the flow with the audio back and forth.
December 16th, 2008 at 7:25 pm
This podcast is excellent.
December 16th, 2008 at 7:41 pm
Now I feel terrible about that earlier comment. On a second listening she was fine.
December 18th, 2008 at 2:40 am
It’s difficult in the case of that ep. I was in Brighton, Mort in Scotland, Claire in Paris and Doug in New york, which causes time delay problems.
December 20th, 2008 at 8:13 pm
Hahaha, I felt awful listening to it myself because it sounded like I was interrupting as well, but the time delays made it really difficult for me to tell when was an appropriate time to ask a question.