Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now by Douglas RushkoffRequirements: .ePUB, .PDF, .MOBI/.AZW reader, 5.2 MbOverview: “If the end of the twentieth century can be characterized by futurism, the twenty-first can be defined by presentism.” This is the moment we’ve been waiting for, explains award-winning media theorist Douglas Rushkoff, but we don’t seem to have any […]
Media Virus!: Hidden Agendas in Popular Culture by Douglas RushkoffRequirements: .PDF reader, 20 MbOverview: Bold, daring, and provocative, Media Virus! examines the intricate ways in which popular media both manipulate and are manipulated by those who know how to tap into their power. Douglas Rushkoff shows that where there’s a wavelength, there’s a way to […]
Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity by Douglas RushkoffRequirements: .ePUB, .MOBI/.AZW reader, 1.6 MbOverview: Why doesn’t the explosive growth of companies like Facebook and Uber deliver more prosperity for everyone? What is the systemic problem that sets the rich against the poor and the technologists against everybody else? […]
Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity by Douglas RushkoffRequirements: .MP3 reader, 255 MbOverview: Digital technology was supposed to usher in a new age of distributed prosperity, but so far it has been used to put industrial capitalism on steroids. It’s not technology’s fault but that of an extractive, […]
Download Life Inc.: How Corporatism Conquered the World, and How We Can Take It BackRequirements: .MP3 reader, 316.4mb 64kbpsOverview: This didn’t just happen. In Life Inc., award-winning writer, documentary filmmaker, and scholar Douglas Rushkoff traces how corporations went from being convenient legal fictions to being the dominant fact of contemporary life. Indeed, as Rushkoff shows, […]