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Douglas Rushkoff
The tech elite have a plan to survive the apocalypse: they want to leave us all behind.
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Gabriel Kennedy, Douglas Rushkoff
The first biography of the late countercultural novelist and underground philosopher Robert Anton Wilson.
Chapel Perilous- The Life and Thought Crimes of Robert Anton Wilson is the first biography of…
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The debate over whether the Net is good or bad for us fills the airwaves and the blogosphere. But for all the heat of claim and counter-claim, the argument is…
Genesis P-Orridge
A revealing and beautifully open memoir from pioneering industrial music artist, visual artist, and transgender icon Genesis P-Orridge
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…
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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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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'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…
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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
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…
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…
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)
Team Human is a manifesto-a fiery distillation of preeminent digital theorist Douglas Rushkoff’s most urgent thoughts on civilisation and human nature.
The tech elite have a plan to survive the apocalypse: they want to leave us all behind
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.
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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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.
First published in 1962, this wonderfully provocative book introduced the notion of pseudo-events-events such as press conferences and presidential debates, which are manufactured solely in order to be reported-and the…
Renee Hobbs (University of Rhode Island)
Propaganda is inescapable. It’s everywhere. Students need to analyse, resist, critique-and create.
