Articles and Essays
Hacking The Economy May 2009
H+ Magazine
Let it Die: Why we should let big banking fail. May 2009
Arthur Online
Stimulus, Ass-Backwards April 2009
Arthur Online
How I Became an Enemy of the People June 2009
The Daily Beast
Too Big to Live: Why Letting Banks Fail Is Actually Good For Real People
June 2009
Change This / CEO Reads
Futurenomics Janurary 2009, page 36
Holland Herald
Don’t Judge Judaism by the Numbers, November 20 2002
New York Times OpEd about why Judaism’s biggest concern should be something other than itself.
AOL/TimeWarner Was Doomed from the Start, July 25 2002
The Guardian of London runs the OpEd I wrote when the merger was first announced – the piece that got canceled by the NYTimes.
Yahoo Internet Life, “Playing God”, December 2001
The Net is the antidote to fundamentalism, forcing us to look deeply at our beliefs and to challenge the stories of the past.
Sportswear International, “The Pursuit of Cool”, 2001
Rushkoff speaks directly to marketers about the social costs of their heinous youth targeting methods.
Bookmark Now: Writing in Unreaderly Times
A Computer Ate My Book, Douglas Rushkoff
An anthology of original essays from our most intriguing young writers.
We know what you want: How they change your mind. 2005
Introduction to Martin Howard book, We Know What You Want
Killed: Great Journalism Too Hot to Print. Edited by David Wallis
Wrestling with Zion.Progressive Jewish-American Responses to the Arab-Israeli Conflict.
Leaving Springfield.The Simpsons and the Possibility of Oppositional Culture
Disinformation: The Interviews.
Richard Metzger interviews Grant Morrison, Robert Anton Wilson, Peter Russel, many others, and me, in a nice colorful package.
Communication and Cyberspace
A graduate-school level textbook on “social interaction in an electronic environment.” Essay from me on renaissance culture
Yahoo Internet Life, “The People’s Net”, July 2001
The Internet is back, alive and well. It may be a little shell-shocked, but that’s only because it’s just won a war.
Esquire, “Timothy Leary’s High-Dive”, August 1996
A personal account of Timothy Leary’s death.
Swing Magazine, “Playing Undead”, April 1995
Rushkoff explores the underground world of Camarilla, a live vampire-themed fantasy role-playing game.
The Sabbath Revolt, March/April 1999
If It’s A Free Market, Why Does it Cost So Much?
Let it Grow, November 1999
What if we all decided to take our cues from kids?
Clonaid, Media Virus Column, SEED Magazine, March/April 2003
E: Prescription for Cultural Renaissance, 2001
The Jewish Week, “Welcoming One Another”, April 25 2003
All God’s Children, They Got Vings
Microsoft Marches On, The New York Times, June 25 1998
Suicide Jews, New York Press, June 11-14 2003
The self-imposed death of institutional Judaism.
Playing With Fractals
An introdution to the art of Sarah Sze.
Which One of These Sneakers is Me?
How Marketers Outsmart Our Media-Savvy Children.
We Are the Programmers
It all began with the remote control.
Hidden Architecture
The real space of cyberspace.
