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 I'm a little behind where I intended to be, but it's not like his ideas or observations are going to be outdated any time soon.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 ...