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Podcast: New Models
Episode: Preview | Douglas Rushkoff, from Meta to Soma (NM89) 2025
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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...