Life Inc. Dispatch 09: Rushkoff on The Colbert Report
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Posted on 16 July '09 by Douglas, under Life Inc, Life Inc. Dispatch, television, video. 28 Comments.
Rushkoff on the Colbert Report
This is it: I’m doing The Colbert Report Wednesday, July 15, 11:30pm on Comedy Central, repeated the next day in earlier time slots. Check your local listings, or watch the segment on the show’s website.
I have to admit this is the one media appearance I’m a little nervous about. Not that Colbert is an unfriendly host. He’s really one of us, pretending to be one of “them.” The trick is to remember that he’s actually drawing out a guest’s best arguments by playing the enemy. (As one of the producers told me, “pretend you’re speaking to an eight-year-old.”)
But he plays the part well – so well, in fact, that he often wins debates even against his own left-leaning version of the Colbert character. Conversations can also quickly devolve into an argument over a single issue as Colbert mines it for comedic potential. This can make for great entertainment, but can also prevent the guest from getting out his main and most important points.
I’m making a list of talking points (that I’ll surely forget once I’m actually on) but I welcome you to share the arguments you think most need to be heard. I’ll do my best to weave them in.
Posted on 14 July '09 by Douglas, under interview, pop culture, television, video. 30 Comments.
Life Inc. Dispatch 02: Insulation Equation
Life Inc. Dispatch 02:
Insulation Equation
For more information about Douglas Rushkoff’s book, “LIFE INC. How The World Became A Corporation And How To Take It Back” check out
lifeincorporated.net and the LIFE INC. 9min movie
The LIFE INC. Dispatch = Brief weekly videos encapsulating key concepts and ready strategies from Douglas Rushkoff’s LIFE INC. for de-corporatizing our lives, abandoning the speculative economy, and rebuilding both commerce and community from the bottom up.
You can also download an MP3 audio file of the Dispatch:
Life Inc. Dispatch 02 – Audio
Posted on 2 June '09 by Douglas, under Life Inc. Dispatch, corporatism, economics, environment, interview, pop culture, talks, television. 5 Comments.
Life Inc. Dispatch 01: Crisis as Opportunity
Life Inc. Dispatch 01:
Crisis as Opportunity
For more information about Douglas Rushkoff’s book, “LIFE INC. How The World Became A Corporation And How To Take It Back” check out
lifeincorporated.net and the LIFE INC. 9min movie
The LIFE INC. Dispatch = Brief weekly videos encapsulating key concepts and ready strategies from Douglas Rushkoff’s LIFE INC. for de-corporatizing our lives, abandoning the speculative economy, and rebuilding both commerce and community from the bottom up.
You can also download an MP3 audio file of the Dispatch:
Life Inc. Dispatch 01 – Audio
Posted on 30 May '09 by Douglas, under Life Inc. Dispatch, Rushkoff titles, corporatism, economics, interview, media theory, pop culture, talks, television. 3 Comments.
Life Inc: The Movie
Bigger version and more info at http://LifeIncorporated.net
Vimeo version for sharing on social networks Life Inc. The Movie
Subtitled in Spanish Life Inc. The Movie
Posted on 11 May '09 by Douglas, under Rushkoff titles, corporatism, interview, politics, pop culture, television. 8 Comments.
Rushkoff on PBS Frontline Tuesday
From PBS:
The Most Wired Place On Earth
Tuesday, April 14
PBS-FRONTLINE/World
9 PM EDT
(check local listings or watch online HERE )
Professional video gamers, “netiquette” for five-year-olds and a rehab camp for Internet-addicted teens: it’s all part of the digital landscape in South Korea. Correspondent Douglas Rushkoff
The footage is from our recent trip to South Korea, and it’s part of a larger project we’re producing for FRONTLINE, called Digital Nation
We’re going to be investigating life in the digital age through our website over the upcoming months, and it will culminate in a FRONTLINE documentary broadcast early next year.
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Also, for people in NYC this week, my friend Propaganda Anonymous is hosting a panel about the spiritual origins of HipHop. He has been working on this one a long time, and has gathered quite an interesting assortment of people.
Thursday April 16th, Prop Anon and Reality Sandwich present: INFINITY BLESSINGS, a panel event exploring the spiritual and philosophical foundations of hip-hop culture.
Speakers inlcude: Allah B from the Nations of the Gods and Earth’s; Brother Shep from the original Black Panther Party and the Universal Zulu Nation; Dr. Shaka Zulu from the Universal Zulu Nation; Lawyer and Activist, King Downing;Why-G from the Optimus Foundation; and Propaganda Anonymous.
Thursday April 16th, (doors 6pm, talk 7 to 10pm
The Player’s Theater
115 Macdougal St (btw. Bleeker and W. 3rd)
$10
After party at Sutra Lounge, 11pm to 4am
1st and Houston
Free!
Posted on 13 April '09 by Douglas, under kids/screenagers, pop culture, television. No Comments.
Vanquished by The Dagger
This time out, my Frontline documentary is going to be released in pieces over the next year before it actually airs on PBS in January. The first bits are now showing up, along with a bunch of behind-the-scenes stuff, at the pbsdigitalnation.org website.
Here’s three short pieces, starting with a fun one on Korean pro-gamers.
Also up there right now is this real-life footage we shot of South Korean children learning the Nettiquette song!
Posted on 8 April '09 by Douglas, under kids/screenagers, pop culture, television. 3 Comments.
Watch BoingBoingTV
Some of my dearest friends in the world, the happy mutants at BoingBoing, have started broadcasting daily videos – boingboingTV.
This is a rare opportunity not only to watch some truly interesting short-subjecct reports from the edges of technology culture, but also to watch a media form be born and evolve. Currently, BBTV is somewhere between YouTube and the Daily Show. But after only a week or two of existence, it’s still very much in its nascent form.
Knowing how sensitive and responsive BoingBoing’s creators are to the media environment in which their work appears, I am excited to see how they adjust their content and format over the next few months. This could be the birth of something really significant. Think back to what it was like watching those little interstitials on the Tracy Ullman show, and knowing they’d someday be The Simpsons. Or how all those Friendster-clones popped up until Myspace – or is it Facebook – came upon a winning formula.
In this case, however, we’re looking at the people and ethos that makes this space run, to begin with. It’s not another get-rich-quick Internet product, but a posse of dedicated techno-enthusiasts figuring out how – now that the technology is ready for primetime – to push the real, social, pro-cultural and anti-authoritarian agenda of this medium through a new and potentially influential channel. Is it perfect right now? No, of course not. But it’s still plastic, and that’s the very best part.
Posted on 21 October '07 by Douglas, under media theory, pop culture, television. No Comments.
