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"What happened - and partly as a result of the marketing of identity politics, by people who were exploiting the gender problem and race problems and all that for political and capitalist ends... really consumerist ends - they've kind of bastardised self and community derived notions of identity.
It's led to... identity as a performance, rather than identity as a state of being. As your natural moment to moment expression."
#DouglasRushkoff, 2024
"OK, so we have this free-flowing media space. We've deconstructed it, we've demystified it, right, and we have a DIY media. Well, a couple of things happened to change all that. Some of them fine things, some of them kind of weird things.
It's very easy to say 'they' took it away from us, because 'they' wanted to make money off this thing. 'They' were all mean. But 'they' is us, finally."
Douglas Rushkoff, #DisinfoCon, 2000
#Hörtipp: Die Angst der Tech-Milliardäre vor ihrem Personal
Welches Welt- und Menschenbild beherrscht das Denken der Tech-Milliardäre in Silicon Valley, die zunehmend auch unser Denken bestimmen? Wie können wir uns den Auswüchsen dieses Tech-Mindsets entgegenstellen?
Der Medienwissenschaftler Douglas Rushkoff im Gespräch beim Deutschlandfunk:
https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/die-angst-der-tech-milliardaere-vor-ihrem-personal-100.html
"*If* we only have 90 seconds, left that's still no reason not to celebrate the ecstasy of our collective existence."
#DouglasRushkoff, 2024
https://shows.acast.com/teamhuman/episodes/the-secret-history-and-unwritten-future-of-psychedelics-and-
"Just because people are using it for NFT rug-pulls, doesn't mean there's not something in BlockChain. Whether it's the authentication - I don't think it's necessarily mining and tokens - but some kind of public-recordy-thing could be cool."
"The oligarchs are trying to destroy our Enlightenment experiment by destroying politics. Politics in the USA has been destroyed."
#DavidBrin, 2023
"Right and without the politics, you can't define the arenas in which the competition is happening. You can't create the rules sets..."
#DouglasRushkoff, 2023
https://shows.acast.com/teamhuman/episodes/david-brin
"While it may be true that a large number of current websites and group projects contain more content aggregation (links) than original works (stuff), that may as well be a critique of the entirety of Western culture since post-modernism. I'm as tired as anyone of art and thought that exists entirely in the realm of context and reference — but you can't blame Wikipedia..."
#DouglasRushkoff, 2006
https://www.edge.org/conversation/digital-maoism-the-hazards-of-the-new-online-collectivism
"It is corrosive and it is *decadent*, in the truest sense of the word. Decadent is not drinking champaign, right, or sushi, it's decay. It is decay of the values and morals on which a society depends."
#DouglasRushkoff, Leaving X and Social Media Behind, 2023
https://shows.acast.com/teamhuman/episodes/leaving-x-and-social-media-behind