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Aleister and Adolf by Douglas Rushkoff; Michael Avon Oeming (Illustrator)
Category: Graphic Novels
Media theorist and documentarian Douglas Rushkoff weaves a mind-bending tale of iconography and mysticism against the backdrop of a battle-torn Europe. In a story spanning generations, and featuring some of the most notable and notorious idealists of the 20th century, legendary occultist Aleister Crowle ...Show more
Beyond the Valley - How Innovators Around the World Are Overcoming Inequality and Creating the Technologies of Tomorrow by Ramesh Srinivasan; Douglas Rushkoff (Foreword by)
Category: Business
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.In this provocative book, Ramesh Srinivasan describes the internet as both an enabler of frictionless efficiency and a dirty tangle of politics, econom ...Show more
Life Inc. by Douglas Rushkoff
Category: Business, Economics and Law
'Something has gone terribly wrong. We are deep in the thrall of a system that no one really likes, no one remembers asking for, yet no one can escape. It just is. And the minute it seems as if we can put our finger on what's happening to us or how it came to be this way, the insight disappears, drowned ...Show more
Life Inc - How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take it Back by Douglas Rushkoff
Category: Philosophy and Religion
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 real-estate market. When did these corporate values overtake civic responsibilities? Rushkoff examines how co ...Show more
Nonbinary: A Memoir by Genesis P-Orridge; Douglas Rushkoff (Afterword by)
Category: Biography
A revealing and beautifully open memoir from pioneering industrial music artist, visual artist, and transgender icon Genesis P-Orridge. In this groundbreaking book spanning decades of artistic risk-taking, the inventor of "industrial music," founder of Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV, and world-renowne ...Show more
Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now by Douglas Rushkoff
Category: Science
Rushkoff weaves together seemingly disparate events and trends into a rich, nuanced portrait of how life in the eternal present has affected our biology, behavior, politics, and culture. He explains how the rise of zombie apocalypse ficdtion signals our intense desire for an ending; how the Tea Party an ...Show more
Present Shock - When Everything Happens Now by Douglas Rushkoff
Category: Science
Back in the 1970s, futurism was all the rage. But looking forward is becoming a thing of the past. According to Douglas Rushkoff, 'presentism' is the new ethos of a society that's always on, in real time, updating live. Guided by neither history nor long term goals, we navigate a sea of media that blend ...Show more
Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Elite by Douglas Rushkoff
Category: Philosophy and Religion
The tech elite have a plan to survive the apocalypse- they want to leave us all behind.Five mysterious billionaires summoned Douglas Rushkoff to a desert resort for a private talk. The topic? How to survive The Event- the societal catastrophe they know is coming. Rushkoff came to understand that these m ...Show more
Team Human by Douglas Rushkoff
Category: social issues
Team Human is a manifesto--a fiery distillation of preeminent digital theorist Douglas Rushkoff's most urgent thoughts on civilization and human nature. In one hundred lean and incisive statements, he argues that we are essentially social creatures, and that we achieve our greatest aspirations when we w ...Show more