When everything happens now as well as a dozen other bestselling books on media, technology, and culture, including program or be programmed, media virus, life inc and the novel ecstasy club. He is the author of several books including present shock. This week, geekdad is excited to present 5 exclusive excerpts from the book. He is professor of media theory and digital economics at cunyqueens. In his latest book, team human also a podcast and a movement of sorts, he sums up 25 years and about 20 books dealing with technology, media, economics and magic. A search query can be a title of the book, a name of the author, isbn or anything else. As a media theorist, he has a lot of ideas about everything, and hed like to share them with you. See the complete profile on linkedin and discover douglas.
Cyberia has its obvious flaws in retrospect examples regarding the links between drug culture, hacking, the internet, and computers that have. Computer bulletin boards, cyberpunk comic books, interactive videos, cyberrock dance clubs and the acts. Douglas rushkoff will talk about present shock at san franciscos city lights books on april 4 at 7pm and brooklyns greenlight bookstore on april 11 at 7pm. Douglas rushkoff emerged as a media commentator in 1994 with his first book, cyberia. His previous bestselling books on media and popular culture have been translated to over thirty. The book discusses many different ideas revolving around technology, drugs and subcultures. Douglas rushkoff is an author, teacher, and documentarian who focuses on the ways people, cultures, and institutions create, share. Were an educational nonprofit working to provide a balanced, honest look at psychoactive drugs and drug useto reduce harms, improve benefits, and support policy reform. See all books authored by douglas rushkoff, including present shock. How growth became the enemy of prosperity, present shock, program or be programmed, media virus, and the novel ecstasy club. Douglas rushkoff is the winner of the first neil postman award for career achievement in public intellectual activity. Winner of the media ecology associations first neil postman award for career achievement in public intellectual activity, dr. When everything happens now, a book that explores the alwayson, simultaneous society in which we live, as well as how this new temporal landscape influences media, culture, economics, politics, and meaning.
Douglas rushkoff talked about his book, present shock. Douglas rushkoff paperback october 1, 2002 the digital age will always be marked by the spirit of its first emergence, and the tension from the very first between corporate hightech and the appropriation of information technologies by the counterculture. Rushkoff offers hope for anyone seeking to transcend the false now. Cyberia is a book by douglas rushkoff, published in 1994.
His debut examined the early psychedelic, rave roots of digital technology. Douglas rushkoff talking about his concept of present shock in 20. Open library is an initiative of the internet archive, a 501c3 nonprofit, building a digital library of internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Cyberia is quite well written, but zippies are so full of shit. Douglas rushkoff is a writer, documentarian, and lecturer whose work focuses on human autonomy in a digital age. Cyberia is an ideasled, exuberant documentary written in 1994 about the.
As far as the ultrawealthy are concerned, the virus to be afraid of is less a medical challenge than a memetic one. Douglas rushkoff books list of books by author douglas. William gibson, bestselling author of neuromancer and idorudouglas rushkoffthe foremost authority on cyberculture and author of cyberia, media virus and playing the futurehas penned the ultimate novel for our fast and furious times. And cyberguru douglas rushkoffs new book must be a modern classic of the. Life in the trenches of hyperspace, douglas rushkoff massages to the surface hints. Anthony wing kosner, douglas rushkoffs present shock. We created technologies that would help connect us faster, gather news, map the planet, and compile knowledge. Life in the trenches of hyperspace, by douglas rushkoff. By the time a story hits the newstands, most insiders consider it old news and are already hard at work on the next flurry of culturebending inventions and. Douglas rushkoff is a new yorkbased writer, rushkocf and lecturer on technology, media and popular culture. We live in a continuous now enabled by twitter, email, and a socalled realtime technological shift. Rushkoffs first book about digital culture, cyberia, was canceled by bantam in 1992 because they. People spent the twentieth century obsessed with the future.
Cyberia 1994 was cyberculture theorist douglas rushkoffs first book, written in 1992 and delayed because the publishers felt that email and the internet were not likely to become significant. When everything happens now, in which he argues that we are being march 28, 2011 conversation between douglas rushkoff and micah sifry. Life in the trenches of cyberspace by douglas rushkoff. This largely sympathetic report from the latest frontier will undoubtedly strike many older readers as outrageous, but others especially. When everything happens now, douglas rushkoff cautions against living in the perennial, virtual now. I cannot count how many facepalms it took to get through his quotes. We are waking up to the fact that weve been slaves to an exponential growth curve for the past 40 years, at least, and really much much longer. Life in the trenches of hyperspace rushkoff, douglas on. His ten bestselling books on new media and popular culture have been translated to over thirty.
Rushkoff breaks up presentism into five symptoms or challenges and matches each with constructive solutions for pressing the pause button. Present shock on apple books apple books apple apple. Cyberia, his first book on cyberculture, was inspired by the san francisco rave scene of the early 1990s. Buy this book this heady report takes readers on a dizzying and dangerous guided tour through.
Douglas ruskoffs previous books, including cyberia and media virus, have been translated into thirteen languages. View douglas rushkoffs profile on linkedin, the worlds largest professional community. However, rushkoff is no traditional anthropologist. And cyberguru douglas rushkoff s new book must be a modern classic of the. Rushkoff did a fine job describing cultural phenomena and some people mindset, but he could be a little bit more critical. Douglas rushkoff audio books, best sellers, author bio audible. God doesnt exist, never did, and the closest thing well ever see to god will emerge from our own collective efforts at making meaning. In the anthropological ethnographic style, rushkoff scans culture, teasing out underlying givens and themes. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read present shock. We strove for an instantaneous network where time and space could be compressed. He has made such awardwinning pbs frontline documentaries as generation like, merchants of cool, and the.
In its present form the book seems to endorse new age too much for my taste. When everything happens now, and program or be programmed ten commands for a digital age, and more on. In the meantime, douglas rushkoff has become one of the worlds leading media theorists. Douglas rushkoff, a media theorist and professor of media studies at the city university of new yorks queens college, writes regularly for cnn opinion. Rushkoff takes a tom wolfe electric koolaid acid test style or roman a clef, as he actively becomes a part of the people and culture that he is writing about. Douglas rushkoff was one of 45 leading scholars, authors and activists who convened at the great hall of cooper union, new york city, on october 25. I have ordered douglas rushkoffs new book, present shock, but until then, heres kosners take. He is the technology and culture consultant to the united nations commission on world culture and a regular consultant to fortune 500 companies, and he writes a biweekly column for the new york times syndicate. Apocalypto excerpt from douglas rushkoffs present shock.
He sees media as the landscape where this interaction takes place and literacy as the ability to participate consciously in it. Douglas rushkoff is an author, teacher, and documentarian who focuses on the ways people, cultures, and institutions create, share, and influence each others values. When everything happens now ebook written by douglas rushkoff. Douglas rushkoff emerged as a media commentator in 1994 with his first. His new book, present shock, is his effort to describe. Douglas rushkoff audio books, best sellers, author bio. I have seen some fantastic things, most notably people so absorbed on their laptops that they have tumbled down stairs or fallen over second story banisters. Cyberia 1994 was cyberculture theorist douglas rushkoffs first book, written in 1992 and delayed because the publishers felt that email and the internet. He has written a dozen bestselling books on media and society, including cyberia, media virus, coercion winner of the marshall mcluhan award, get back in the box, life inc. The initially planned publication was scrapped, however. Using alvin tofflers concept of future shock as a jumpingoff point, media theorist douglas rushkoff cyberia.
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