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Cyberia, his first book on cyberculture, was inspired by the san francisco rave scene of the early 1990s. Few things read as well as complete, selfabasing repentance. When he told his publicist there about listing the book on amazon, she replied that sounds great. In tracing the roots of corporatism from the renaissance to today, rushkoff reveals the way it supplanted social interaction and local commerce and. Douglas rushkoff is an author, teacher, and documentarian who focuses on the ways people, cultures, and institutions create, share, and influence each others values. Rushkoffs first book about digital culture, cyberia, was canceled by bantam in 1992. He has made the pbs frontline documentaries digital nation, the persuaders, and merchants of cool. Douglas rushkoff public affairs convocation public. Between 1996 and 2001 he wrote a column on interactive culture for the new york times and the guardian. 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 writer, documentarian, and lecturer whose work focuses on human autonomy in a digital age. Though created by humans, our technologies, markets, and institutions often contain an antihuman agenda. Populist chronicler of cyberculture rushkoff cyberia, 1994, etc.
Douglas rushkoff is the author of seven books on new media and popular culture, including cyberia. He made the pbs frontline documentaries merchants of cool, the persuaders, and the upcoming digital nation. Rushkoffs first book about digital culture, cyberia. When an entire subculture like a kid at a rave trying virtual reality for the first time saw the wild potentials of marrying the latest computer technologies with the most intimately held dreams and the most ancient spiritual truths. The initially planned publication was scrapped, however. Cyberia is a book by douglas rushkoff, published in 1994. He has also written and presented two documentaries, the merchants of cool and the persuaders. In this captivating book, cultural theorist rushkoff reveals how corporations have come to dominate all aspects of lifeincluding our inner livesand what to do about it. View douglas rushkoffs profile on linkedin, the worlds largest professional community. Browse douglas rushkoffs bestselling audiobooks and newest titles. Rushkoffs first book about digital culture, cyberia, was canceled by bantam in 1992 because they thought the internet would be over by the time the book came out in 1993. It consists of this web site as well as a major frontline.
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Douglas rushkoff audio books, best sellers, author bio audible. Named one of the worlds ten most influential intellectuals by mit, douglas rushkoff is an author and documentarian who studies human autonomy in a digital age. Douglas rushkoff biography merchants of cool frontline. He is best known for his association with the early cyberpunk culture, and his advocacy of open source solutions to social problems. Winner of the first neil postman award for career achievement in public intellectual activity, douglas rushkoff has written a dozen bestselling books on media and society, including cyberia, media virus, coercion winner of the marshall mcluhan award, get back in. He has written and hosted three awardwinning pbs frontline documentaries. Innovation from the inside out and coercion, winner of the marshall mcluhan award for best media book. Douglas rushkoffs career as a journalist took off in 1994 with the publication of cyberia. Life inc by douglas rushkoff penguin books australia. This largely sympathetic report from the latest frontier will undoubtedly strike many older readers as outrageous, but others especially. How the world became a corporation and how to take.
Rushkoff also wrote the acclaimed novels ecstasy club and exit strategy and graphic novels club zerog, testament. He lives in new york, and lectures about media, society, and economics around the world. Ten commands for a digital age, he shows us how we can take command of new technologies and gain access to the. 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 professor of media theory and digital economics at cunyqueens. May 11, 2009 douglas rushkoff is the author of ten books on media, technology, and society, including cyberia, media virus, coercion, nothing sacred, get back in the box, and the novel ecstasy club. Douglas rushkoff is the author of 12 books on technology, media and pop culture, including coercion, media virus, playing the future and cyberia, the first book on cyber culture.
In 100 aphoristic statements, his manifesto exposes how forces for human. They include cyberia, media virus, playing the future, nothing sacred. Cyberia is about a very special moment in our recent history a moment when anything seemed possible. Douglas rushkoff nationally acclaimed correspondent for pbs frontline and author dr. Douglas rushkoff is the author of ten books on media, technology, and society, including cyberia, media virus, coercion, nothing sacred, get back in the box, and the novel ecstasy club. With illustrations by leland purvis thinking twice about our use of digital media, what our practices are doing to us, and what we are doing to each other, is one of the most important priorities people have todayand douglas rushkoff gives us great guidelines for doing that thinking. Digital nation is a new, open source pbs project that explores what it means to be human in an entirely new world a digital world. Winner of the first neil postman award for career achievement in public intellectual activity. Teaming with canadian independent comic artist steph dumais, rushkoff has delivered americas answer to japans anime. Preface to the 1994 paperback edition a lot has happened in the year or so since i wrote this book. He teaches media studies at new york university, serves as technology columnist for the daily beast. Life in the trenches of hyperspace douglas rushkoff. Douglas rushkoff audio books, best sellers, author bio. Life in the trenches of hyperspace and media virus hidden agendas in popular culture.
He is the author of several books including present shock. Program or be programmed by douglas rushkoff nook book. Douglas rushkoff is the winner of the first neil postman award for career achievement in public intellectual activity. Cyberia is about a very special moment in our recent history a moment. Winner of the first neil postman award for career achievement in public intellectual activity, american media theorist douglas rushkoff 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, and life inc.
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