Podcast Episodes

Is AI Development Modern Chaos Magic? (w/ Trevor Paglen)

We once looked at pictures. Now, pictures are looking back at us. Renowned artist and author Trevor Paglen joins Rushkoff to expose how computer visi…

1 day, 7 hours ago

How to Glitch the AI System (w/ Sophie Strand)

Sophie Strand (author of The Flowering Wand and The Body Is a Doorway) joins Rushkoff for a conversation about breaking free from the dominant paradi…

1 week, 1 day ago

Carnival vs. Coliseum: Reclaiming Our Shared Civics

Rushkoff breaks down the disturbing cultural shift toward Might Makes Right, a playground philosophy that values raw power, wealth, and violence over…

2 weeks, 1 day ago

Adam McKay: We've Already Left the Holocene

"The most useful framework is that our country’s been invaded. But like all great invasions, it involves new techniques." - Adam McKay

Academy Award-w…

3 weeks ago

Formulas Against the False Self: Mitch Horowitz on Left-Hand Path Magic

Mitch Horowitz returns to Team Human for a fiery, provocative exploration of his new book, Esoterika: Formulas Against the False Self. 

Rushkoff and H…

4 weeks ago

The Shoggoth in the Machine: AI, ARGs, and the Future of Play (w/ Reed Berkowitz)

How do we keep the machine from pulling us into another world, or escaping into ours?

Rushkoff is joined by OG game designer, hacker, and Director of…

1 month ago

The Trap of Living Forever (And the Bliss of Letting Go)

Rushkoff contrasts the blissful, terrifying reality of voluntary dissolution with our pyramid-building civilization. From the ancient pyramids of Egy…

1 month ago

Stop Chasing the Matrix: How to Live Fully in a Collapsing World (w/ Sarah Wilson)

If building a better future looks like a miserable exercise in self-denial, nobody is going to join.

Rushkoff sits down with author and activist Sarah…

1 month, 1 week ago

Spidey Sense in the Age of AI

Following a recent New York Times expose on a high-profile AI book scandal, Rushkoff takes us behind the scenes of the modern grift factory.

More than…

1 month, 2 weeks ago

Alan Moore on Reclaiming Our Imagination from the Authoritarian Overlords

"If you are involved in any act of creation... that to me is magic, pure and simple." 

Legendary writer, magician, and shaman Alan Moore (Watchmen, V …

1 month, 3 weeks ago