Preview | Douglas Rushkoff, from Meta to Soma (NM89) 2025

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https://newmodels.substack.com Our guest is American media theorist
Douglas Rushkoff. He is the author of such seminal books on digital
culture and networked communication as Cyberia (1994), Media Virus
(1995), and Coercion (1999); and numerous further titles including,
Program or Be Programmed (2010/2025) and Survival of the Richest:
Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires (2022). He is also the
host of Team Human and a professor of Media Theory and Digital
Economics as CUNY/Queens. On this episode, Doug speaks with us
about the evolution (and devolution) of digital culture across web
1, 2, 3, and beyond via a synthesis of media theory, psychedelic
thinking, and practical wisdom for navigating our contemporary
networks. Names cited: Adam Curtis, Alex Garland, Allan Kaprow,
Amazon, Art Bell, AT&T, Bernie Madoff, CNN, Cyberia, CVS, Dan
Rather, Daniel Dennett, David Bowie, David Hershkovitz, David
Lynch, Donna Haraway, Douglas Rushkoff, Elon Musk, Emmanuel
Levinas, Francis Bacon, Genesis P-Orridge, Jake Tapper, Jeff Bezos,
Jeffrey Epstein, Jesse Armstrong, Joe Rogan, John Brockman, John
Perry Barlow, Joseph Chaikin, Kamala Harris, Lauren Sanchez, Louis
Rossetto, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Madonna, Marjorie Taylor Greene,
Marshall McLuhan, Martin Buber, Martin Heidegger, Media Virus,
Michael Jackson, Milton Friedman, Naomi Klein, Naomi Wolf, Neil
Simon, New Models, New York Times, Norbert Wiener, Orit Halpern,
Paper Magazine, Peter Thiel, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Present
Shock, Ray Kurzweil, Richard Dawkins, Robert Anton Wilson, Ross
Douthat, Skinny Puppy, Spinoza, Star Trek, Team Human, Temple of
Psychic Youth, The Long Boom, The Process Church, The Simpsons,
Vanessa Machado de Oliveira, Walter Benjamin, William S. Burroughs,
Wired Magazine