Chapter Four of Douglas Rushkoff's Life Incorporated is where things start to fall a little bit in disarray for me. Rushkoff begins by attacking the ideology of the Secret, but this is the same guy who wrote Club Zero-G as a graphic novel primer on the idea of designer reality. He's a man who believes that stories shape reality and we are ultimately the architects of our world. I'm no defender of ...
Chapter three of Douglas Rushkoff's Life Incorporated is one that hits solidly home for me. Back in September I moved from the overcrowded state of New Jersey to the Western side of Virginia in the Shenandoah Valley - out to the country. Now I'm not that far from a metro-area. Harrisonburg (home to James Madison University) is 25 minutes away (with all it's strip malls and corporate stores). If I'm feeling especially ...
As I mentioned many moons ago, I intend to go over Douglas Rushkoff's book Life Incorporated, piece-by-piece. I'm a little behind where I intended to be, but it's not like his ideas or observations are going to be outdated any time soon. An examination of chapter two of his book makes this fact very clear.
The second chapter is one to use as a rallying cry for anyone opposed to predatory practices ...
I mentioned previously that I would be going over Douglas Rushkoff's Life Incorporated piece-by-piece (sometimes chapter-by-chapter); and although I'm a little behind schedule in posting my thoughts due to a web site redesign, my intentions remain the same. Rushkoff's book in a battle cry not against capitalism, as many will misconstrue it, but against corporatism, and the actions of corporate America that bleed the common American dry of their culture ...
I first learned of Douglas Rushkoff when I bought the Disinformation DVD set. I listened to Richard Metzger's introduction and was anxiously awaiting Grant Morrison's speech. Rushkoff was in-between the two, and I figured "why not?" I'll just sit through his speech as well. How boring could it be?
Needless to say, I immediately became a fan. Rushkoff had an interesting way of captivating an audience with some honest, intelligent dialog. Despite ...
Recently, cultural writing superstar Douglas Rushkoff debated in NYC with 2012 and Breaking Open the Head author Daniel Pinchbeck. DJ Lanphier of Spiral NYC was nice enough to record this debate and has upload the four files to Google Video. Part I Part II Part III Part IV
Douglas Rushkoff's Get Back in the Box is more than a "business book." It's a powerful schematic that can be just as useful in every other venture of life, as it can for the business savy.
First, let's not draw any illusory lines. Cyberia was about culture. It was about the uprising of a new cultural generation brought up on technology. It was about the cyberpunk generation that wrested control of the ...
Rushkoff is no stranger to taking non-fiction themes and wrapping them into a fictional story. Ecstasy Club is one fine example. However, some writers are quick to learn that the graphic novel format is a completely different monster than the traditional fictional form. Fortunately, Rushkoff takes it slow and easy, keeping with what he knows rather than overextending his imagination to realms he's yet to explore.
Club Zero-G is a cyberian comic book. Anyone ...
Religion is a wonderful and dangerous thing. Throughout time immeasurable religion has turned the poor into the rich, the blind into the sighted, and the lost into leaders through the sheer power of faith.
Religion, however, is only an idea - a faith based on an intricate map of values, culture, and history. It becomes dangerous when followers become servants; or when worship wanders from the infinite design into a more human form. How often do ...
I first learned of Douglas Rushkoff while watching his speech segment on the Disinformation: The Series DVD. In truth, I was waiting for Grant Morrison’s turn, but decided to watch the first couple of speeches rather than fast-forward… and I’m glad I did.
Since that first viewing, I’ve had the opportunity to see him speak in person, sit in on one of his NYU classes, and talk to him sporadically through email ...